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An Ounce of Prevention
One of the most important aspects of conservation is prevention. Preventive conservation is any measure that prevents or reduces the potential for damage. It often ...
Almanacs and Weather Forecasts
Almanacs were standard literature in most Nebraska homes in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. These calendar-like handbooks were compendiums of odd bits of ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features members of Volunteers of America ready to distribute Thanksgiving baskets to families in need in ...
For Your Enjoyment: Thanksgiving Foods from 1914
Did you ever wish you could step into a time machine and return to 1914, just over one hundred years ago, to join the celebration of Thanksgiving? What might the holiday ...
A Blustery Valentine Thanksgiving
In 1886, the weather stranded area travelers and forced the cancellation of a Thanksgiving entertainment in Valentine.
President Grover Cleveland in a ...
Turkey Day in Holdrege
We have film of live turkeys being thrown from a rooftop in Holdrege in 1939. The Turkey Day promotion had a simple rule: any turkey you caught was yours to cook for ...
Thanksgiving at the Fort, 1939
Fort Robinson served as the army’s “Remount Depot,” providing trained horses and mules for the troops. The fort’s holiday feasts were an occasion for dress uniforms and ...
Where are the Sites?
One of the primary responsibilities of the Nebraska State Archeology Office (SAO), as dictated through the Nebraska Archeological Resources Preservation Act ...
First radio broadcast of a Husker football game, Nov. 5, 1921
Long before Lyell Bremser first shouted “Man, woman, and child, did that put ’em in the aisles!,” Pittsburgh radio station KDKA made Husker history on November 5, 1921, ...
History Nebraska Receives $350,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant
The National Park Service has awarded $350,000 from the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant to History Nebraska (P22AP01544). The State Historic Preservation Office ...
Treating Douglas County Field Notes
Paper Conservator, Hilary LeFevere, recently completed treatment on two record books of survey field notes for Douglas County, Nebraska. Both books were in need of ...
The Year Nobody Scored on the Huskers
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Husker fans argue about whether the 1971 or 1995 championship team was the greatest in school history. But one year the Cornhuskers ...
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