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Ford Conservation Center: Stabilizing Shattering Silk
We knew we couldn’t halt the rapid degradation of the silk, but luckily there was a simple way to salvage what remained and prevent further loss of original ...
A Dugout Flood
Imagine yourself as a pioneer living in a hole in the ground. Now imagine that floodwater is rising toward the ceiling. Welcome to rural Boone County in 1873.
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Who is this man? The Black doorman at the Hotel Yancey, Part 2
We've learned the doorman’s name and his family’s story. William Patrick was the son of an enslaved man, and his parents were the first Black farmers in Hamilton County. ...
The Ford Conservation Center: Here to Help
It’s a new year and a good time to remind our blog readers of what we do at the Ford Center. The Ford Conservation Center is the conservation division of History ...
The Black doorman at Grand Island’s Hotel Yancey
A 1940 postcard tells multiple stories about Grand Island and mid-20th century America. The building itself remains a local landmark, while the postcard tells us about ...
When buses were “the car of the future”
Not everyone was happy about “motor buses” when they first appeared in the early 1900s. But by 1925 the Nebraska State Journal said that attempts by railroads or ...
Marker Monday: Opening the Sandhills
The first ranch in this area was set up on the Niobrara River about five miles south of here in 1877.
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: History Nebraska’s Repatriation Program
Read about what the NAGPRA Law means for Native Americans and how History Nebraska works with tribes across the state.
In the late 1980s, after learning that the ...
Neligh Carnegie Library Saved and Becomes a Home
Andrew Carnegie
It’s hard to imagine a world without free access to the unlimited knowledge offered by public libraries. But at the beginning of the twentieth ...
Lincoln’s Carnegie Library Serves Homeless, Fights Hunger
Of the 1,689 Carnegie libraries in the United States, 69 were in Nebraska. Today, not all still serve as libraries. Some serve in new and different ways.
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The Blue River Cattle Trail: from Abilene into Nebraska
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
Waves of Texas longhorns were driven to northern beef markets in Nebraska and Kansas in the latter nineteenth century. Following ...
Mabel Gillespie: First Re-elected Woman in Legislature
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
Mabel Gillespie was one of the first women elected to the Nebraska legislature, and the first to be re-elected, ...
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