Nebraska was a leader in the Chautauqua movement which brought culture and entertainment to rural America. Thousands of Nebraskans spent as many as ten days each summer ...
The work of Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850-1933) for the Populist cause in the 1890s brought her national attention. A gifted orator, she worked in 1891 and 1892 with the ...
Frontier justice was often swift, if not just. Here's an example from the spring of 1887, whichappeared underneath the headline "Lechery and Lead/A Bullet for a ...
J. H. Lemmon, one of Thayer County's earliest settlers, recorded his memories of the enormous numbers of buffalo in southeast Nebraska about 1860. In a reminiscence ...
Noted musician and bandmaster John F. Lenger was born in 1849 in Bohemia. He attended a government school and music conservatory in Prague until he was fourteen, when he ...
Trading horses, like trading used cars, is an activity that has always been best entered intowith caution. Traders' tricks are legendary. Many's the dupe who thought ...
Soldiers' letters home were frequently printed in the local gazette during World War II. The hometown boys (and girls) wrote about training and travel and the Armed ...
Centennial observances by Fort Calhoun residents of the Lewis and Clark expedition's visit to their locality took place during the summer of 1904. The Blair Pilot of ...
In 1802 President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician, asking him to prepare some questions to serve as guidelines for an exploration ...
Besides serving as a local attraction and patriotic symbol at the two world's fairs held in Philadelphia (to celebrate the United States centennial in 1876 and ...
The first library in Nebraska Territory was established during the winter of 1856-57 in Omaha, then still an unincorporated village less than three years old. A young ...
The public schools have lately been the focus of much attention--and much criticism. "Theschools aren't doing an adequate job," the pundits say, "and America is falling ...