The New Deal in Dawes County
When the Great Depression left Dawes County withering from economic and environmental devastation, residents put their faith in Franklin D. ...
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Fort Robinson Photograph: “White as Any White Person”
A late-1800s photograph provides insight about the perceptions of race at that time.
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Divorce in Seward County
Curious as to how various events influenced marital status, Concordia University history professor Jerrald K. Pfabe studied divorce rates in Seward ...
2022 History Nebraska Award Winners
History Nebraska is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 History Nebraska Awards. History Nebraska annually recognizes people that provide significant contributions ...
The Mysteries of a Painting
Everyone likes a mystery. The painting in question certainly was. What had caused the white surface? Could anything be done? What lay beneath? The painting owners ...
Seward County Crime
Jerrald K. Pfabe's study of two twentieth-century time periods explores Seward County's most common forms of crime and examples of each.
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Conserving Modern Art
Objects made by artists that are still living and objects made with modern materials both create interesting challenges and opportunities for ...
When Conversation Runs Dry…
By Joy Carey, Editorial Assistant
November 2012
We are witnessing firsthand the distress a drought causes in an agricultural community. With record temperatures ...
Beauty Behind the Grime
"The Most Beautiful Man in the World." The "reincarnation" of a Greek god. A suffragette's ideal man. "A gay camp icon." Paul Swan embodied all these ...
Why History Nebraska will demolish the grain elevators at Neligh Mill State Historic Site
Perhaps you have seen in the news that the History Nebraska Board of Trustees voted in July to demolish the grain elevators (but not the mill itself) at Neligh Mill ...
The Era of Radio Begins, 1922
“In future ages historians will scan the record to determine when radio transmission became general and popular and will fix the date not far from 1922."
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Nebraska’s first radio station?
After years of experimental broadcasting, Nebraska’s first commercial radio stations went on the air in 1922. Who was the first?
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