Marker Monday: Post South Loup Fork – a.k.a “Fort Banishment”
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On the South Loup River southwest of here was the site of the U.S. Army's Post South Loup Fork. This small outpost of Fort Kearney was ...
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Timeline Tuesday: Cambridge vs. Omaha Tech for State Football Title, 1924
Welcome to our weekly series, "Timeline Tuesday." Every Tuesday, we'll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate Editor ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Dog and Pony Show
Welcome to our new weekly series, “Timeline Tuesday.” Every Tuesday, we’ll post a brief Nebraska history story. The late NSHS historian and Nebraska History Associate ...
Flashback Friday: When Nebraska Schools Had Rubber Coats as Blackboards and Cowchips for Heat
Lakeland sod high school is under construction. Summer 1934 RG4290.PH0-001505
Our Sod Schoolhouse Marker Monday and Throwback Thursday posts were so ...
Marker Monday: Mallalieu University, Red Willow County
The University, named for Bishop Mallalieu, was opened in September, 1886, with an enrollment of sixty students.
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Flashback Friday Encore: Comics, Cartoons, Drawings and Doodles
The Library/Archives holds the collections of various Nebraska artists and cartoonists. One such collection is that of Guy Spencer, cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald ...
Flashback Friday: The Tragedies and Successes of the Genoa Indian School
“Nine o’clock taps and the wailing cry of the little boys as they stood under the sleeping porches with faces to the brick walls are two sounds that have ...
The Indians as I Knew Them by Grace Stenberg Parsons – Memories of the Genoa Indian School
This manuscript was written by Grace Stenberg Parsons. As the daughter of the blacksmithing instructor at the Genoa Indian School in Genoa, Nebraska, Parsons observed ...
Timeline Tuesday: Better Baby Contests
Caption: Photographer Emanuel Wolfe depicted several finalists in a Nebraska better baby contest, each wearing a prize ribbon. NSHS RG2836.PH0-532
"If ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Columbus, Nebr. 1905 Flood
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesdays! We'll showcase a significant weather event in Nebraska's history. Sometimes the post will be a photo and a description, and sometimes ...
Throwback Thursday: The White Horse Ranch in Naper, Nebraska
Young woman jumping a horse with no saddle or bridle at the White Horse Ranch, 1953. [RG1714-15]
Giddy up! Today’ s Throwback Thursday photo takes us to ...
Marker Monday: Lost Airmen of World War II
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper ...
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