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This large ball, mounted on a shaft on top of Merrill Hall at Doane College in 1883, functioned in time with the observatory's Greenwich meantime ...
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Marker Monday: Farm Families Displaced
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In February 1942 U.S. Senator George Norris announced the selection of a central Nebraska site for a new military ordnance plant. On March 25 a condemnation ...
Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha.
There are certain names we instantly recognize as those who passionately loved and strove for equality. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony and ...
Flashback Friday: The Gliddenites are Coming! Nebraska and the 1909 Glidden Tour
In July 1909, Nebraskans witnessed firsthand the most popular and spectacular Glidden Tour. More properly called the Annual Reliability Touring Contest of ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska’s Big Rodeo
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When Burwell residents put on a local rodeo in 1921, the event was so successful that they made it an annual affair and built a permanent ...
Chief Standing Bear and the Declaration of Independence
By David L. Bristow, July 23, 2025
A statue of Chief Standing Bear now stands in the US Capitol, and Lincoln’s newest high school is named in his honor. ...
Marker Monday: Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Robinson
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Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years ...
A Learning Vacation: Crete Chautauqua in 1886
Nebraska was a leader in the Chautauqua movement, which brought culture and entertainment to rural America. Thousands of Nebraskans spent as many as ten ...
The Czech-American Experience
In 1993 we published a special issue of Nebraska History titled “The Czech-American Experience.” It remains one of the most popular issues we’ve ever published, and ...
Marker Monday: Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home
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Boys Town was founded as a home and school for homeless, abandoned, neglected or otherwise underprivileged boys, regardless of color or creed, by ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Historical Society of Ravenna
Ravenna was incorporated in 1886; eighty-eight years later several local citizens decided the town needed a historical society. They began meeting in various homes and ...
German Immigrants in Nebraska
By 1910, one in five Nebraskans was a German immigrant or the child of one. Mostly they lived in rural areas, especially in northeast Nebraska. (Pierce County was 90 ...
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