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How Nebraskans Salute the Flag – A Brief History
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor (April 2016)
"Shame on the men on the cover Vol. 92 No. 3. No one except the man on the back cover, middle bottom, ...
Marker Monday: Chadron-Chicago Cowboy Race
America's longest horse race began here June 13, 1893.
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Senator Wherry’s 1950 campaign to fire gay federal employees
As minority floor leader in 1950, Wherry called for a full Senate investigation into “moral perverts” in federal employment. Wherry said that homosexuality was a matter ...
NEBRASKAland DAYS in Lincoln and North Platte
June brings with it the annual NEBRASKAland DAYS festival in North Platte. These days, the events span ten days, including a parade, musical performances, meals, and the ...
Fire(s) in Benkelman, 1906
Wooden buildings, no building codes, and often no fire department to speak of. What could possibly go wrong?
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Marker Monday: Louis Crompton LGBTQA+ Advocate
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Louis Crompton joined the English department faculty at UNL in 1955. While at UNL in fall 1970, Crompton taught the first interdisciplinary gay studies ...
Fort Robinson Museum opens, June 3, 1956
Dinnertime at the fort: one ton of rolled beef roasts, cooked in two thirty-foot-long, five-foot-deep pits over wood coals; 250 lbs. of hot dogs; plus pork and beans, ...
Ripped to Repaired
The Ford Center regularly conserves a variety of family documents, many of which have interesting familial and historical connections. In the case of one recent Ford ...
When the women of Wahoo’s JFK College took on the Chinese national basketball team, 1973
By David L. Bristow
May 24, 2023
Fifty years ago the women’s basketball team of tiny John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo traveled to China for a series ...
In Her Own Voice: Oral Histories of Farm Women
Throughout history, literacy and access to the materials required to record day-to-day life and experiences have been limited to those with the time, ability, and ...
The Baysdorfers, Nebraska’s first aviators
By David L. Bristow
When Charles Baysdorfer prepared for takeoff near Waterloo, Nebraska, not only was he piloting a homebuilt biplane on its maiden flight, ...
The man who scored Nebraska’s first-ever touchdown died in the Soviet Gulag
By David L. Bristow, Editor
May 17, 2023
Consider these three people:
A young man who scored the University of Nebraska’s first-ever ...
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