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October is Archives Month
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Flashback Friday: Then The Burnings Began: Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence
In August 2014 many Americans were alarmed by the scenes of fire and destruction following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite the prevalence of ...
Discover NSHS Government Records
American Archives Month, October 2017
Good news military history and genealogy enthusiasts! The indexing of the early admission case files (1887-1936) for the Grand ...
Celebrate Home Movie Day today!
Archives Month, October 2017
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur filmmaking held annually. For some, it means attending a home movie screening ...
World Day of Audiovisual Heritage, 2017
American Archives Month, October 2017
UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, October 27, 2017
Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, FERA Canning Center in Norfolk
Who has been doing some canning this fall? Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a group of men seated a table preparing beans for canning. The men worked under ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Pumpkins on the Prairie
The Garness family pose in front of their sod home in Custer County for Nebraska photographer Solomon D. Butcher in 1887. Next to the family is a big pile of large ...
Barns in Nebraska Territory
Few barns in Nebraska Territory were as substantial as the Elijah Filley Stone Barn, built in 1874 in Gage County. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. ...
Nebraska Football Spirit High in 1902
The football game between the Haskell Indian team and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
The University of Nebraska football team was on a winning streak in ...
Care, Preserve, Treat
In terms of preservation, the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the state’s best-kept secrets—and we’re trying to change that! We are the only ...
Overland Emigrant Photographs
Photography was still in its infancy when emigrants began crossing the Great Plains to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Cumbersome cameras, fragile glass negatives, ...
Diamond Dick Dime Novels
Richard J. "Diamond Dick" Tanner Dime Novels
The first Beadle Dime Novel appeared in 1860 and initiated what one critic called "the greatest literary movement, in ...
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