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Lincoln’s Final Decree
Not every project we work on at the Ford Center has dramatic before and after results. Sometimes, the most important work we do is to stabilize an artifact for its ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, North Side Community Center
February is Black History Month. This photograph celebrates the brave African-American men and women who served in the military during World War II. Taken in October ...
Funny, Weird, and Aggressively Wholesome: Valentine’s Day Cards in Our Collections
Valentine's Day cards come in a variety of types. They can be sweet, funny, or just plain strange. It's Valentine's Day and we've been looking through our collections ...
The Cartoons of Herbert Johnson
By Deb Arenz, Associate Director, Collections
(From Nebraska History News, July-August-September 2014)
John Falter, featured in a 2012-13 Nebraska History Museum ...
Two Governors Welcome a President to Omaha
In 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visited Omaha on a return trip to Washington, D.C. from the Pacific Coast. Omaha’s Morning World-Herald on May 14 noted that ...
A Blizzard Can (Sometimes) Be Fun
Young people have a different perspective on the hardships of winter. During the legendary winter of 1949, Charlie Wright was sixteen years old and staying at his ...
Clouds of Grasshoppers in 1874
By David L. Bristow
“In a clear, hot July day a haze came over the sun,” Addison Sheldon recalled. “The haze deepened into a gray cloud. Suddenly the ...
Conserving a Midwestern Family Legacy
The Gerald Ford Conservation Center recently preserved two documents from the life of Lillie Gillilan Chambers (1885-1972). The first was her high school diploma, which ...
Nebraskans’ Booze Hiding Spots
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was ...
Looking Back on the Blizzard of 1888
Below are three different looks at how the Blizzard of 1888 affected Nebraskans. One is from the Superintendent of the Nebraska State Historical Society (History ...
Mysterious Case of Pearl Forcade
In early January 1885 teenage prostitute Pearl Forcade was killed by a drunken man at "Mollie's Hall" in Lincoln. When her brothers arrived at Wyuka cemetery to claim ...
A Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Story Played Out in Western Nebraska in 1968
This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Nebraska History Magazine, a quarterly publication of History Nebraska. Family-plus members receive four issues per ...
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