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Journey to Freedom – Celia and Eliza Grayson’s escape from Nebraska slavery
Editor's note: Below is the first part of "Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory," from the Summer 2022 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Read the complete ...
Arbor Day Ceremonies Plant New Trees at Schools
Arbor Day originated in Nebraska in 1872 through the efforts of J. Sterling Morton and the State Board of Agriculture. The day became a legal holiday in ...
Highlights from Digital Curation
The Digital Curation department has been working hard in 2023 to make several new manuscript and photograph collections available online. Below are a few highlights from ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska City
Marker Text
Permanent settlement in this area dates from 1846, with the establishment of old Fort Kearny on Table Creek. Nebraska City, founded in 1854, became an ...
Nebraska’s 1921 Alien Land Law targeted Japanese immigrants
In 1921 the state legislature passed a law barring noncitizens from owning rural land or leasing it longer than five years. Because Japanese immigrants ...
Gabriel Field—The Face of a Soldier
By Patricia C. Gaster, Assistant Editor
This article first appeared in the January-February-March 2010 issue of Nebraska History News, published by the ...
How to make corn mush (1861)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Many Nebraska pioneers remembered living on cornmeal when there was little else to eat. Most common and easily prepared was ...
Marker Monday: Ward Bond’s Boyhood Home
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the childhood home of Ward Bond, an actor who ...
Near-beer and cone-topped cans: The Columbus (Nebraska) Brewing Company
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Founded in 1863, Columbus Brewing Company was one of Nebraska’s oldest breweries, and the last outside of Omaha when it ...
What was this 100-pound steamboat anchor doing in a central Nebraska field?
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Gloria Liljestrand-Barber found this four-foot-high, 100-pound anchor in 1985. It was mostly buried in a hayfield on her ...
“Wine” poisoning kills five in Lyons, 1930
Five young men, ages 17 to 22, died in Lyons after drinking what they thought was wine. A report in the Omaha Bee-News (Feb. 23, 1930) explained that the jug actually ...
For career woman in 1930, “home’s still home”
"I honestly believe there is no sound reason why women should not be in business," Miss Loretta Larsen told the Omaha Bee-News in 1930. Larsen appeared in ...
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