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Missteps by an Episcopal Priest that Led to Segregation
Rev. Robert Oliver wanted to help Nebraska City's Black population, but his efforts resulted in the segregation of the local schools.
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Rock Creek Station
Rock Creek Station is the name for two stations or road ranches on either side of a ford of Rock Creek on the Oregon-California Trail in extreme southern Jefferson ...
Bugles at Fort Robinson
Why the fort would need to have so many at any given time remains a mystery.
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Nebraska’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition Photos
Nebraska contributed an exhibit to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, but for decades had no photos documenting the exhibit. After a string of findings, an image ...
Fort Atkinson Two Bits and Two Insignias
Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Military post west of the Missouri River.
Making change at Fort Atkinson, Nebraska was a lot harder in the 1820s than it is today. ...
Abbott Ranch, Dana College, and Morgan Fricke House Added to National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s inventory of properties deemed worthy of preservation. It is part of a national program to coordinate and ...
Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park
Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park is located in the North Loup Valley near the town of Elyria. The fort was a frontier military post from 1874 to 1881, and was built ...
The Chadron State Park Site
The theme of Archeology Month 2021 is Archeology in Nebraska State Parks. While Ft. Atkinson and Ft. Robinson have seen the most archeological work, we start in ...
Ford Center and International Cat Day
A post about a cat painting that was recently treated in the Paintings Lab and belongs to the Nebraska History Museum.
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Indigenous boarding schools in Nebraska
Photo: Pawnee children at their reservation boarding school in Nance County, Nebraska, circa 1871
By Araceli Hernandez, Digital Outreach Educator; David ...
Making Ice Cream in 1910
Who wants ice cream? Photographer John Nelson of Ericson, Nebraska captured this little sweetie taking a turn cranking the handle of an ice cream maker in about 1910.
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William G Marshall – Deaf Shoe Maker
William G. Marshall arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1879 to set up one of Lincoln’s earliest shoemaking shops. He, like both his parents, was born deaf.
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