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Genoa Indian School
In 1884 the Genoa Indian Industrial School was opened in Nance County on the grounds of an earlier vocational training school for Indian children. This new boarding ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, The Lincoln Playboy Airplane
Ready for takeoff! In today’s Throwback Thursday photo, Victor Roos, president of the Lincoln Aircraft Company, and his wife Clare pose in a tiny plane named “The ...
Flashback Friday: A Time Capsule Made of Sod
The NSHS recently assembled a team of scientists, historians, and local volunteers to salvage a sod house wall for study. The remnant of a 1903 Custer County sod house ...
Flashback Friday: Pioneer Cemetery Receives Historical Marker
The playing of the national anthem, firing of muskets, and the shuffling of feet over the ground above him weren’t enough to wake Francis Henry Baker from his 117-year ...
Flashback Friday: Off to Business College in 1908
One of the benefits of publishing historical essays is the way they elicit previously unknown materials from readers. Recently Dr. Oliver Pollak forwarded a letter from ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Nebraska State Fair
It’s State Fair Time! Today’s Throwback Thursday photos features elaborate exhibits created with homegrown Nebraska apples. Both exhibits were created by the Nebraska ...
Preserving Puppets
Puppets generally fall along a scale from Muppets (adorable and cuddly) to Ventriloquist Dummy (unsettling and creepy). Thankfully, the twenty-eight puppets donated to ...
Fishing Tales in Nebraska
Fishing Tale, 1867
A brief note on the pleasures of fishing appeared in the Nebraska City News, May 25, 1867. The piece is unsigned, but the author may have been J. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Baseball in Early Lincoln
Edward Manley, a Chicago educator, was the son of Samuel Manley, one of the five men that composed the faculty of the University of Nebraska when classes first began in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Tractors
One of the most useful farm machines, the tractor, was developed prior to World War I. Probably the first big demonstration of gasoline tractors in the United States was ...
Timeline Tuesday: Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979), a native Nebraskan, produced some of Hollywood's most important and controversial films. He helped found 20th Century Fox and remained a ...
Marker Monday: Ash Hollow
Marker Text
Note: Some markers have not aged well. History is written by people, and people have biases and blind spots. This marker mistakes a bit of folklore ...
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