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The Curious Candidacy of Americus Liberator

In 1968 Secretary of State Frank Marsh formally recognized the “Peace on Earth Party,” which held its first convention in Omaha.[1] Then Herbert F. Hoover, fourth cousin ...

1933 Millard Hotel Fire

Today's moment of Nebraska history takes us to a devastating fire that destroyed Omaha's Millard Hotel on the night of February 8, 1933. Seven firemen lost their lives ...

Wild Weather Wednesday: Lincoln Lightning Strike

Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesday. We'll post a photo from our collections depicting an extreme weather event from Nebraska's past. Lincoln has been having its own wild ...

Call for Dodds Houses in May Yields Results

Five previously unidentified early twentieth-century “pattern book” houses by Omaha architect Everett S. Dodds have been located thanks to a search sponsored by ...

September Noon History Bites at the Museum Discussed Univ. of Nebr. Band Director’s Uniform

Museum visitors gather to hear Terry Rush present about University of Nebraska Band Director Jack Snider's band uniform.   We had a great turnout for Noon History ...

Flashback Friday: New Photos of 1890s Irrigation and Pioneer Life in the North Platte Valley Reveal New Insights

The right portion of this house shows a remnant of an earlier, lower gable, indicating that the house was originally built with a low roof (like the house in the left ...

1890s Business Women Challenged Fashion Standards

Several unidentified women sitting at typewriters in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, in 1939.   The invention of the typewriter changed the way American business ...

Timeline Tuesday: Lurking in every Coca Cola glass is an ‘evil principle’

Caption: Interior of Fred Trute’s liquor store, Seward, Nebraska. RG2536-5-10   Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the Anti-Saloon League ...

Flashback Friday Encore: Happy Birthday to the Arcadia Township Library

October 2nd marks 99 years since the opening of the Arcadia Township Library in Valley County. The library was designed by the Lincoln firm of Fiske and Meginnis. It was ...

Marker Monday: St. Edward

Location 383-399 Beaver St, St Edward, Boone County, Nebraska; view this marker's location 41.570169, -97.86432 For more than ten thousand years the Beaver Valley and ...

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