Bolte Manufacturing Company, Kearney, Nebraska
As the Curator of Manuscripts, I get to work with all sorts of interesting materials that document the history of individuals, families, businesses, and ...
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Nebraska’s first school newspaper celebrated a radical idea: free schools
Published weekly by Omaha high school students starting in 1859, the Free School Advocate celebrated an idea that was was not yet fully embraced across the US: free ...
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 ...
Marker Monday: Andrew Jackson Higgins
Marker Text
Andrew Jackson Higgins, designer and manufacturer of World War 11 landing craft known as “Higgins boats,” was born August 28, 1886, at Columbus, ...
The 1874 State Fair: A Time to Show Off
The 1874 state fair in Omaha was supposed to be a chance for Nebraska to show off its agricultural potential. A massive swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts had different ...
Conserving an Omaha Performer’s Legacy
Recently the Ford Conservation Center treated a large photograph from the mid-1920s. It was brought in by the descendants of Mildred Mae Moorman (nee Jacque, ...
Husker football allowed only one radio broadcast per season in the 1930s
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Why did the University of Nebraska broadcast only one Cornhusker football game a year? It was about money.
In September ...
Archeology at the Beaver Creek Trail Crossing Site
A number of early Nebraska settlements and townsites were relocated or abandoned over the years as transportation routes changed in response to the construction of new ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Custer County Historical Society
The Custer County Historical Society (CCHS), aka Custer County Museum, was founded in 1961 as a library when Nebraska was preparing to celebrate its ...
Nebraska Archeology Month 2024
I still can’t figure out where the past year went, but I’m excited to be kicking off Nebraska Archeology Month 2024! The past year has been a busy one for the Nebraska ...
Tractor vs. Horses
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Which is more economical for a farmer, a tractor or a team of horses?
Ogallala, Neb., 1918. History Nebraska ...
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 ...
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