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Free As The Wind
In 1925 American manufacturers sold more than 95,000 windmills. Because of rural electrification, sales dwindled to less than 10,000 mills by 1956. This windmill ...
Nebraska’s Round Barns
We're all about exploring curiosity. Sometimes, curiosity turns a conversation with a friend into years of study and an article about Nebraska's beautiful round ...
The Anti-Greek Riot of 1909
On Saturday, February 20, 1909, the headline of the World-Herald Herald read "Ed Lowery, South Omaha Policeman, Is Shot and Killed By Greek." The bold type was followed ...
Formation and Failure: The Populist Party in Seward County, 1890-1892
Populism swept across Nebraska and other states of the Great Plains, historians have continued to be fascinated by the subject. Much research and writing have been ...
Environmental Perception and Geographic Change in Southwest Sheridan County
The story of exploration, settlement, adjustment, change, and disruption in the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent Sandhills has been a favorite theme of historians and ...
Great Independent: The Lincoln Telephone company, 1903-1908
The Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company began life competing with the much bigger Bell system, but was able to replace it over time. Read more about how it found its ...
Government and Banking in Territorial Nebraska
Banking was one of the earliest businesses established in Nebraska Territory, as well as one of the most controversial, yet little effort has been made to investigate ...
Colonel John Miller Stotsenburg: Man of Valor
Some men live long and accomplish little. Others, cut down in their prime, accomplish much. Such a man was John Miller Stotsenburg.
He and General John Joseph ...
Rock Creek Ranch Fight: An Introduction
On July 12, 1861, at Rock Creek Ranch on the Oregon Trail, in what is now Jefferson County, Nebraska, occurred an affray in which three men were killed. The character in ...
Territorial Omaha as a Staging and Freighting Center
The area designated by Congress in 1854 as the Nebraska Territory was organized in part to clear the way for the eventual passage of a transcontinental railroad through ...
The Patronage Battle Between Bryan and Hitchcock
Soon after William Jennings Bryan 's arrival in Nebraska from Illinois in the fall of 1887, his attacks upon the purveyors of patronage and the pampered monopolies and ...
A Reflective View by George W. Norris
Defeated in the 1942 election for a sixth term in the United States Senate, George W. Norris, by the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution for which ...
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