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 ...
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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 ...
No Irish Babies Born in Nebraska in 1912
When the Nebraska State Board of Health released statistics in December 1912 on various aspects of life in this state, it probably didn’t expect to provoke any ...
Marker Monday: Kearney Cotton Mill
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In the late 1880’s, Kearney business leaders envisioned the city as a major manufacturing center. The Kearney Cotton Mill was among the many ...
The Destruction of Omaha’s Easter Sunday Tornado
While it was absolutely the worse off, Omaha was not the only Nebraska town to get hit by a tornado that day; a total of seven tornados touched down that day. We also ...
Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913
Most Nebraskans remember the devastating tornado outbreak of March 23, 1913, for the destruction it wrought in Omaha, but there were other communities devastated by the ...
Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home
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Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...
The Story of Omaha Police Fingerprint Expert Emily Byram
Trained by the Army during World War I, Emily Byram Ruffner became one of the first female fingerprint examiners in United States law enforcement.
As the United ...
When Fort Robinson had walls, 1875
During his many years as curator at Fort Robinson, historian Tom Buecker used to say that visitors’ most-asked question was, “Where’s the fort?” People came expecting to ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska School for the Deaf
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Nebraska School for the Deaf, established in ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Platte County Historical Society
History Nebraska isn’t the only organization preserving and sharing the stories of Nebraska's history. This post is our first “Nebraska History Spotlight,” in which ...
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