Marker Monday: Etna
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on a marker that tells about the rise and fall of ...
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Happy Halloween!
Above is a Halloween party thrown at the residence of Flavia Waters Champe in 1950.
Many children have fond memories of Halloween. That memory often consists of candy ...
Crowds Celebrate V-J Day in Lincoln, Nebraska
On August 14, 1945, word began to spread across the United States that Japan would surrender and end the war. Celebrations broke out in cities and towns around the ...
Marker Monday: Ponca Trail of Tears – White Buffalo Girl
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight the important stories in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on a sad story: the death of White Buffalo Girl ...
Marker Monday: Central High School
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The first session of Omaha High School, now Central High School, was held on November 10, 1859, in Nebraska's territorial capitol on ...
Happy Accidents and Photographic Tricks: Double Exposure Images
If you have ever had to load film into a camera, then you may be familiar with double exposures. Double exposures sometimes happen if the film jams inside of the camera ...
The Blizzard of 1948-49
The Nebraska National Guard was called out, and volunteers worked to rescue trapped livestock, homes, and even whole communities. But the job was too big for Nebraska ...
Marker Monday: Mitchell & Ketchum Homesteads
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The most infamous Nebraska showdown between settlers and cattlemen began in 1878 on the Custer County homesteads of Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum, ...
Nebraska’s Five Capitols
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Our state capitol is one of the nation’s most recognizable, but did you know it’s the third capitol built on that spot, and the fifth to ...
Why Kearney, Nebraska, will become a second Minneapolis (1889)
Kearney was booming in 1889 when city boosters commissioned a promotional book entitled The City of Kearney, Nebraska. A copy of this boastful, lavishly illustrated book ...
Reviving “Lucy” the Milliner’s Doll
A delicately detailed doll named “Lucy” has been in the History Nebraska collection since the mid-1900s. She originally belonged to a woman named Ida Epley Davis, who ...
Flowers in the Attic
(Posted June 19, 2019)
The original wallpaper in the attic of Willa Cather's childhood home is an artifact with a rich historical and literary significance. Our ...
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