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Mabel Gillespie: First Re-elected Woman in Legislature

By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant Mabel Gillespie was one of the first women elected to the Nebraska legislature, and the first to be re-elected, ...

The Power of Parchment

Ford Conservation Center|Gerald Ford Conservation Center

It’s easy to take paper for granted. We use it for everything: writing, printing, books, receipts, packaging, money, even for cleaning. But what did people ...

Grace Crandall Richardson: Nebraska’s Persistent Suffragist

Grace Crandall Richardson | NWSA | Suffrage

By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant Scrapbooks often hold sentimental value, but for historians like Amy Helene Forss, they can serve as primary sources by ...

An Old Carnegie Reimagined as a New Home for the Arts

It’s hard to imagine a world without free access to the unlimited knowledge offered by public libraries. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, this was not the ...

Pierce Repurposes Carnegie Library into Event Center

Wragge’s advice for the 57 remaining Carnegie Libraries in Nebraska is to keep them, “There will never be another building like it and when it is gone, it’s gone.” When ...

North Platte Transforms Carnegie Library into Children’s Museum

It’s hard to imagine a world without free access to the unlimited knowledge offered by public libraries. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, this was not the ...

Journey of a Portrait

conservation|ford center|Gerald Ford Conservation Center|Painting

We often think that because we value something, it was always seen as valuable and worth keeping. Especially if that cherished object is old, we like to think that ...

Don’t Let Women Vote If You Want to Keep Drinking

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If you let women vote, will they take away your beer? There was a time when many Nebraska men feared their wives and daughters would do just that. (more…)

Nebraska Archeological Expeditions of…. Expeditions

In addition to a world-wide pandemic, social justice protests, murder hornets, western wildfires, and coin shortages, 2020 is also the 300th anniversary of the 1720 ...

Omaha Airfield Challenging Radios in Planes

As an emerging invention in the early 1920s, radios became popular as entertainment and as a means of communication. The potential use of radios in airplanes intrigued ...

Oreapolis: Nebraska’s Ghost Town

In the 1850s, Nebraska was a newly-established US territory whose only towns lay along the Missouri River. Many of the new settlements were little more than “paper ...

World War II Casualties

Of the millions of World War II deaths, 3,626 were Nebraska natives. Of those, 114 had ties to Buffalo County. Historian Mark R. Ellis of the University of Nebraska at ...

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The Power of Parchment

Grace Crandall Richardson: Nebraska’s Persistent Suffragist

An Old Carnegie Reimagined as a New Home for the Arts

Pierce Repurposes Carnegie Library into Event Center

North Platte Transforms Carnegie Library into Children’s Museum

Journey of a Portrait

Don’t Let Women Vote If You Want to Keep Drinking

Nebraska Archeological Expeditions of…. Expeditions

Omaha Airfield Challenging Radios in Planes

Oreapolis: Nebraska’s Ghost Town

World War II Casualties

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