1920s Game Day: NU vs. Notre Dame (Part 1)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Memorial Stadium hasn’t always been the home of Nebraska Cornhusker football. Between 1909 and 1922, the team played at Nebraska Field, ...
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Game Day: Nebraska vs. Notre Dame, Part 2
By David L. Bristow, Editor
The cover of the Summer 2010 issue of Nebraska History Magazine features the still-under-construction stadium. Though unfinished, the ...
Flashback Friday: Where Is Hidden Paradise?
What did rural Nebraska travel and recreation look like in the early-to-mid twentieth century? A forested canyon at Long Pine became popular at a time when ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Last Buffalo and Other Hunting Stories
When A. N. Ward reminisced about his early hunting exploits with a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald in 1910, he recalled the days when the Nebraska prairie abounded ...
Timeline Tuesday: Electioneering in 1897
John M. Thurston was the featured speaker at the Republican state convention in 1897. From Alfred T. Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882).
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Timeline Tuesday: Lincoln Penny
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny. When the Lincoln one-cent coin ...
Timeline Tuesday: Magic among the Indians
What happens when a magician is tricked by his audience? Julius Meyer, pioneer Omaha merchant and Indian trader, is the source for this tale of how Sioux tribesmen in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Bees and Wasps
The Omaha Daily Bee was certainly the largest and most influential Nebraska newspaper to include "Bee" in its name. Its longtime editor, Edward Rosewater (1841-1906), in ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Shoemaker’s Ashes
"Edward Kuehl, one of the most peculiar characters that ever lived in Omaha, or anywhere else, was found dead in his bed last night in the back room of his place of ...
Busted for Ugliness by the Lincoln P.D.
The Lincoln Police Department has added history pages to its website (including a lot of material they found at our Government Records Facility). The site has photos and ...
The One-Day Wonder
On this day in Nebraska history, (March 2, 1867, to be exact), Turner M. Marquette took the oath of office to become the brand new state of Nebraska’s brand new (and ...
Plant Trees, Get Land for Free
March 3: On this date in Nebraska (and U.S.) history the Timber Culture Act became federal law. The 1873 provision allowed homesteaders to acquire 160 acres of land by ...
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