Lincoln’s Final Decree
Not every project we work on at the Ford Center has dramatic before and after results. Sometimes, the most important work we do is to stabilize an artifact for its ...
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Nebraska airmail in the 1920s
Early airmail pilots flew open-cockpit biplanes, navigating by landmarks and simple maps, and landing in grassy airfields. But by 1930 their facilities and technology ...
Marker Monday: Malcolm X
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925. He was the son of Earl and Louise Little, ...
African Americans in Nebraska History
""African Americans in Nebraska History: A Special Double Issue" (Fall/Winter 2010) is one of the most popular issues of Nebraska History magazine that we've ...
Found at an Estate Sale: A Trophy from the Year Nebraska Banned Girls’ Basketball Tournaments
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Jim Brogden was browsing an estate sale in Acworth, Georgia, when he noticed this beautiful trophy. It tells a story not only of ...
Leap Year Once Viewed as Opportunity for Women
This year is a leap year, which means that it has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days. The year 1896 was also a leap year and was widely observed in Nebraska with ...
Marker Monday: Mari Sandoz
This is the country of Mari Sandoz--historian, novelist, teacher--who brought its history and its people to life in her many books, articles and stories.
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The 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address – March 4, 2011
Abraham Lincoln. NSHS-761P-1
Shortly after noon on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln stepped to a platform on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol. He was about to ...
Women Serve on a Frontier County, Nebraska, Jury for the First Time in 1966
Frontier County, Nebraska, disallowed female jurors until 1962 and did not empanel its first female jurors until 1966.
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Throwback Thursday: High School Boys Basketball Teams
In recognition of the NSAA State Boys Basketball Championships, this week's Throwback Thursday features photographs of multiple Nebraska high school boys basketball ...
Flashback Friday: History of the Omahawks
From 1972 until 1975 the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA), played a handful of home games in Omaha’s Civic ...
Victorian Wedding Slippers See New Life
A pair of late-19th-century wedding slippers recently came to the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center for treatment. These shoes are part of the Frontier Army Museum's ...
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