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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 ...
Marker Monday: Chimney Rock
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Rising 470 feet above the North Platte River Valley, Chimney Rock stands to the south as the most celebrated of all natural formations along the overland ...
Celebrating Mother’s Day
This picture postcard depicts an unidentified mother and baby about 1910.
In the United States the celebration of the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day dates to ...
History Nebraska Awards $328,000 through Historic Preservation Grant
History Nebraska has announced the recipients of the Rural Nebraska Historic Preservation (RNHP) grant, which assists owners of National Register of Historic Places ...
Helen Keller Shocked at Nebraska’s Poor Financial Assistance for the Blind
It’s 1947, and the Nebraska legislature has not passed funding for educating and rehabilitating people with vision loss for twenty-five years. Who are ...
E. H. Barbour Recalls Mari and “Old Jules” Sandoz
Mari Sandoz (1896-1966), internationally known as a chronicler of the West and as an expert on Native American history, first gained fame as the author of Old Jules ...
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