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Cornhuskers in Demand
Cornhusking was once an annual autumn activity on many Nebraska farms. Before the advent of the mechanical corn picker, the corn crop was harvested by hand and "shucked" ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Thanksgiving at Hattie B. Monroe House
Today's Throwback Thursday photograph captured the sweet excitement on the children’s faces as they help prepare the Thanksgiving turkey. Omaha photographer Nathaniel ...
Flashback Friday: Will Pigs Help Win World War I??
After the United States entered World War I in April of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Herbert Hoover head of the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Doughboy’s Goodbye
A long kiss goodbye. Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph captures an American doughboy saying goodbye to his girl in Lincoln, Nebraska on September 5, ...
A Story Shared
Even in larger cities like Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska always feels like a small town where everyone knows everyone else. And the mission statement of the Nebraska ...
Flashback Friday: The 1968 Nebraska Republican Primary
Most political headlines in late 1967 and early 1968 centered on the Democrats: Senator Eugene McCarthy’s surprise showing in the New Hampshire primary, President Lyndon ...
Marker Monday: The Nebraska State Grange
Location
Rural Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.437329, -99.71526
Marker Text
The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was ...
William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and the Prohibition Party Ticket of 1920 ∙ Patricia C. Gaster
“We have come together to select a burial lot for John Barleycorn,” said Virgil G. Hinshaw in his opening address to Prohibition Party delegates on July 21, 1920. The ...
Gaining and Losing: James C. Dahlman and William Howard Taft
James C. Dahlman, the colorful "perpetual mayor of Omaha," made a jovial offer to President William Howard Taft just prior to Taft's brief visit to Omaha in September of ...
Flashback Friday: Ann Lowe and the Intriguing Couture Tradition of Ak-Sar-Ben ∙ Margaret Powell
During the 1960s, one of the most respected couture designers on the New York fashion scene was also one of its least known. Ann Lowe was the first African American ...
Timeline Tuesday: Free Auto Camps
Long distance travel in the early days of the automobile was difficult, and comforts along the way were few. Motorists pitched their own tents and cooked their own meals ...
Flashback Friday: “Scopes Wasn’t the First”: Nebraska’s 1924 Anti-Evolution Trial – Adam Shapiro
The waning days of the 1924 presidential campaign found William Jennings Bryan back in his former home state of Nebraska. On Friday evening, October 17, 1924, the man ...
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