Marker Monday: Cairo: Oasis of the Prairie
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Cairo (pronounced ‘Care-Oh’) began as a railroad town along the Burlington line. Agents of the Lincoln Land Company, a Burlington subsidiary, ...
Lillian Nelms
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Conserving Blueprints of a Historic Home
The Ford Conservation Center recently completed treatment on a series of 1920s cyanotype blueprints for a historic home in Walnut, ...
Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day, marking Abraham Lincoln's 1862 proclamation abolishing slavery, was a significant holiday for Black Nebraskans. For former enslaved ...
Marker Monday: Vivian Strong
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On June 24, 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was shot and killed by James Loder, a white police officer, while leaving a party in the Logan ...
Tactile History: The Pershing Auditorium Mural
Inspired by the reinstallation of the Pershing Auditorium Mural within Wyuka Park and Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska, a 3-D tactile model of the ceramic tile mural is now ...
Marker Monday: Sioux Army Depot
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Sioux Army Depot was established on 23 March 1942 as Sioux Ordnance Depot. It was the only U.S. Army Ammunition Depot in Nebraska during World War ...
Senator Norris Home Ice Cream Social
Ice cream and history in one place!
Lunchbox Lecture: Nebraska Green Book Project
Learn more about the collaborative process behind uncovering an important chapter of Nebraska’s history!
Marker Monday: Inventor of Center-Pivot Irrigation Machine
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Born in 1894, Frank Zybach grew up in Loup Township, Platte County, Nebraska. He began inventing at age 13. In 1948, he developed a prototype of a ...
Marker Monday: Farm Families Displaced
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In February 1942 U.S. Senator George Norris announced the selection of a central Nebraska site for a new military ordnance plant. On March 25 a condemnation ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska’s Big Rodeo
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When Burwell residents put on a local rodeo in 1921, the event was so successful that they made it an annual affair and built a permanent ...
“Buffalo Bill’s Nebraska” Presented by Jeff Barnes
Nebraska was where William F. Cody made his home and started his Wild West Show.
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