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Flashback Friday: Omaha’s Bus Boycott of 1952-54
Years before the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56, a group of Omahans led a bus boycott of their own. In this case, the target was the Omaha and ...
Bombs Away!
Many plant workers during World War II were female. On March 24, 1942, construction began on the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant near Grand Island. Bombs and cannon shells were produced there throughout World War II.
Marker Monday: The Ionia Volcano
Early settlers worried that the so-called Ionia volcano would destroy its namesake town. It nearly did, but with a flood rather than an ...
The Dawes Act: Why most reservation land is not owned by Native Americans
Tribal lands were held in common before an 1887 law called the Dawes Severalty Act. The government wanted to assimilate Native Americans into US culture, and to do this ...
Marker Monday: O.A. Abbott: Nebraska’s First Lieutenant Governor
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Othman Ali (O.A.) Abbott (1842-1935) was a Civil War veteran, pioneer lawyer, Nebraska statesman, and advocate for women's rights. From 1861 to 1865 he ...
Thomas B. Johnson: A Nebraska Artist’s Collection
Thomas Berger Johnson was born in Omaha in 1890 to Swedish immigrant parents. Johnson’s introduction to art came early; his father, Hjalmar, was an artist and craftsman ...
Marker Monday: Pershing Rifles
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General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces to Europe in World War I, was Professor of Military Science at the ...
German Immigrants in Nebraska
By 1910, one in five Nebraskans was a German immigrant or the child of one. Mostly they lived in rural areas, especially in northeast Nebraska. (Pierce County was 90 ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Historical Society of Ravenna
Ravenna was incorporated in 1886; eighty-eight years later several local citizens decided the town needed a historical society. They began meeting in various homes and ...
Marker Monday: Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home
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Boys Town was founded as a home and school for homeless, abandoned, neglected or otherwise underprivileged boys, regardless of color or creed, by ...
The Czech-American Experience
In 1993 we published a special issue of Nebraska History titled “The Czech-American Experience.” It remains one of the most popular issues we’ve ever published, and ...
A Learning Vacation: Crete Chautauqua in 1886
Nebraska was a leader in the Chautauqua movement, which brought culture and entertainment to rural America. Thousands of Nebraskans spent as many as ten ...
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