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Parachuting Accident
On July 3, 1893, thousands of people gathered at Courtland beach to watch 19-year-old Roy Elser make a parachute jump. Instead, they witnessed a tragedy.
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“General” John O’Neill’s advice for new Nebraskans
In 1875, John O'Neill published a pamphlet saying two things. Come to Nebraska and bring money.
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Omaha in 1860
When Henry Palmer of Wisconsin visited Omaha in 1860, he saw a city that was only a shadow of what it would become. Well, mostly what he saw was "prairie covered with ...
An Old Cowboy Writes
"So I'll fix you greedy gluttons so you cannot feed your cows / So the crops all burned and withered; even grass it cannot grow" Cowboy poetry of the 1930s could get ...
Flashback Friday: Newspaper Portraits from 1888
In December 1888, the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal published four different articles about four different men, all published over four days. The only problem was they ...
The Goose-Powered Flying Machine
According to a letter published in 1891, all you need to fly up to 200 mph are 19 geese and a birch bark chariot.
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The 1905 State Corn Contest
It may have been the Christmas season, but it was corn that was on everyone's mind in Lincoln in December of 1905.
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Women’s History Month Resources
March is Women's History Month, so all month long we are celebrating the contributions of women to Nebraska history. Below you can find long-form Nebraska ...
Nebraska Next: The Fight to Enfranchise Nebraska Women
The movement to enfranchise Nebraska women started as early as 1855 when suffragist Amelia Bloomer spoke before an audience in Omaha. Things heated up after Nebraska ...
Whitney Young Jr’s Time in Omaha
Before Whitney Young Jr was a nationally known civil rights leader, he was a local leader in the Omaha chapter of the National Urban League.
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World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition
The World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition opened in New Orleans on December 16, 1884. As the largest world's fair held in the United States to that date, it attracted ...
Yuletide in Knox County
"The holidays passed off at this place very enjoyably considering the hard times," the editor of the Niobrara Pioneer observed late in December, 1874. Pioneering in ...
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