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Nebraska’s Changing Auto Culture, 1900-1930
As automobile ownership and travel became more widespread after 1900 (and particularly after the dedication of the Lincoln Highway in October of 1913), the rural and ...
Nebraska’s Women Photographers
Most research on Nebraska photographers has concentrated upon well-known figures such as William Henry Jackson, Frank A. Rinehart, Solomon D. Butcher, and Louis ...
Photographing Across the Plains: Charles R Savage in 1866
The only known photographs of overland emigrants crossing Nebraska, in possession of the Nebraska State Historical Society, were taken by Charles R Savage. Savage is ...
The Omaha Business Men’s Association and the Open Shop, 1903-1909
Socially prominent local businessmen led the anti-union movement in Omaha in the early twentieth century. Many unions survived, but the open shop principle promoted by ...
The Governor and the Guard in the Omaha Tram Strike of 1935
At the height of violence in the Omaha streetcar strike of 1935 Nebraska's new governor, Robert Leroy ("Roy") Cochran, called out the National Guard and declared martial ...
Psychology at the University of Nebraska, 1889-1930
The University of Nebraska produced numerous prominent psychologists, despite being a state whose population statistics should not merit such a number. This article ...
Bellevue: The First Twenty Years
This article has been an attempt to explore the founding and early growth of Bellevue, Nebraska on the basis of some new data and, to a degree, upon a reinterpretation ...
The Brownville Story: Portrait of a Phoenix, 1854-1974
The year was 1854, just a half-century after Lewis and Clark's valiant expedition into the Louisiana Territory, and thirteen years before the state of Nebraska would be ...
Fremont’s Love Opera House
In the early twentieth century the Love Opera House provided varied entertainments for residents of Fremont. Local people sometimes appeared there as actors or singers, ...
Joseph Warren Arnold’s Journal of His Trip to and from Montana, 1864-1866
Joseph Warren Arnold was born in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania in 1841. He attended school in Springville, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio. When he felt the lure ...
The Diaries and Writings of George A Maston, Black Citizen of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1901-1913,
John Maston was born into slavery, February 3, 1849, in West Virginia. Young George escaped to Ohio in 1862 with Union Army Captain Israel B Murdock. He was taught the ...
No Teacher for the School: The Nebraska Junior Normal School Movement
Although the United States Superintendent of the Census reported in 1890 that the frontier had ceased to exist, pioneer conditions continued in teacher education in ...
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