Marker Monday: Sandhill Cranes
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The Big Bend of the Platte River in central Nebraska is one of the most important staging areas for the spring migration of the world’s largest ...
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The Abbotts Play Host to Susan B. Anthony
Nebraska lawyer Othman Abbott and his wife, early settlers in Grand Island, shared an interest in women's rights. In his Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer, published by ...
Malcolm X Selected to Nebraska Hall of Fame
September 12, 2022
The Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission today selected Malcolm Little, also known as Malcolm X and El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, as the next member of the ...
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Kool-Aid, the popular powdered drink ...
Timeline Tuesday: Sleighing Fun
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John Nelson's photograph of his sister, Hannah Nelson, and his niece, Alice Nelson Dahlesten, in a horse-drawn sleigh, about 1916-18. RG3542-6
When ...
Frederick Douglass’s Nebraska Sister
Frederick Douglass is remembered for his escape from slavery and for his speeches and autobiographies through which he advocated passionately for freedom and civil ...
Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Rights Activist and “The Father of Negro Musicians of Omaha”
Jazz critic and historian George Lipsitz has observed that "established histories of jazz tend to focus on a select group of individual geniuses in only a ...
1920s Game Day: NU vs. Notre Dame (Part 1)
the history nebraska blogBy David L. Bristow, Editor
Memorial Stadium hasn’t always been the home of Nebraska Cornhusker football. Between 1909 and 1922, the team ...
Game Day: Nebraska vs. Notre Dame, Part 2
the history nebraska blogThe November 10 game was a classic. Nebraska upset Notre Dame 14-7. Between 1922 and 1924, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne’s legendary “Four ...
Dr. Charles Arnold’s Helmet
With one look at this helmet, you know it has a story to tell. Fortunately, it has a happy ending.
This helmet belonged to Dr. Charles H. Arnold. Arnold ...
Flashback Friday: The Illustrator’s Pencil: John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post
John Falter was a Nebraska boy who made good. His artistic ability, drive, and genial nature helped him become one of the most successful American illustrators from the ...
The Great Sheedy Murder Trial of 1891
It was Lincoln’s most sensational criminal trial of the nineteenth century. But as historian Timothy Mahoney argues, the Sheedy case was more than just a sordid tale of ...
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