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Marker Monday: Sam Bass and the Big Springs Robbery
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on a marker in Big Springs, which commemorates ...
Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Rights Activist and “The Father of Negro Musicians of Omaha”
Jazz critic and historian George Lipsitz has observed that "established histories of jazz tend to focus on a select group of individual geniuses in only a ...
Tractor vs. Horses
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Which is more economical for a farmer, a tractor or a team of horses?
Ogallala, Neb., 1918. History Nebraska ...
Marker Monday: Nehawka Flint Quarries
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Flint nodules embedded within subsurface Pennsylvanian Formation limestone deposits in this vicinity were an important source of stone used ...
Nebraska Archeology Month 2024
I still can’t figure out where the past year went, but I’m excited to be kicking off Nebraska Archeology Month 2024! The past year has been a busy one for the Nebraska ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Custer County Historical Society
The Custer County Historical Society (CCHS), aka Custer County Museum, was founded in 1961 as a library when Nebraska was preparing to celebrate its ...
Archeology at the Beaver Creek Trail Crossing Site
A number of early Nebraska settlements and townsites were relocated or abandoned over the years as transportation routes changed in response to the construction of new ...
Husker football allowed only one radio broadcast per season in the 1930s
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Why did the University of Nebraska broadcast only one Cornhusker football game a year? It was about money.
In September ...
Conserving an Omaha Performer’s Legacy
Recently the Ford Conservation Center treated a large photograph from the mid-1920s. It was brought in by the descendants of Mildred Mae Moorman (nee Jacque, ...
The 1874 State Fair: A Time to Show Off
The 1874 state fair in Omaha was supposed to be a chance for Nebraska to show off its agricultural potential. A massive swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts had different ...
Marker Monday: Andrew Jackson Higgins
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Andrew Jackson Higgins, designer and manufacturer of World War 11 landing craft known as “Higgins boats,” was born August 28, 1886, at Columbus, ...
Dr. Charles Arnold’s Helmet
With one look at this helmet, you know it has a story to tell. Fortunately, it has a happy ending.
This helmet belonged to Dr. Charles H. Arnold. Arnold ...
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