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Flashback Friday: Then The Burnings Began: Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence
In August 2014 many Americans were alarmed by the scenes of fire and destruction following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite the prevalence of ...
Discover the Audiovisual Collection
October is Archives Month
You may know History Nebraska for its outstanding collections of photographs, manuscripts and public records, library materials or museum ...
Discover the Museum Collections
American Archives Month, October 2017
In celebration of Archives Month, this October we are talking about how you can access many of the wonderful materials in the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Beauty and the Beast
The Red Cloud Opera House on February 4, 1888, was the scene of an amateur theatrical entitled Beauty and the Beast. Small-town opera houses hosted such entertainments ...
Timeline Tuesday: Beating the Heat in 1906
In the days before air conditioning, getting a good night's sleep during the heat of summer was sometimes a problem. One obvious solution was to sleep outdoors. ...
University of Omaha Football Photographs
Since 2006, October has been designated American Archives Month to raise awareness about the value and work of archives and archivists. To celebrate, we are sharing ...
Discover the History Nebraska Manuscript Collections
Lincoln Sport Plane, blueprint drawing [RG3726.AM: Encil Chambers]
For this October’s celebration of Archives Month, we would like to tell you a little more about ...
Flashback Friday: Photographer C. W. Bonham’s North Platte Valley
A Scottsbluff man was browsing an estate sale in 2014 when he noticed a box full of glass plate photographic negatives. Many were broken, but twenty-six were whole and ...
Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad
In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska Statehood Memorial
Location
1627-1699 H St, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Marker Text
From 1854 to 1867 the seat of territorial and state government was in Omaha. In 1867 the ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Growing Celery in the Platte Valley
The family of William Kelley pose among the rows of their celery field. The Keller’s farm was located six miles west of Kearney on an island in the Platte River. ...
Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth-Century Soccer in Omaha
What Americans call “soccer” is one of several sports that evolved from games played for centuries in Europe, loosely called “football.” The history of the sport in ...
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