Free As The Wind
In 1925 American manufacturers sold more than 95,000 windmills. Because of rural electrification, sales dwindled to less than 10,000 mills by 1956. This windmill ...
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No Teacher for the School: The Nebraska Junior Normal School Movement
Although the United States Superintendent of the Census reported in 1890 that the frontier had ceased to exist, pioneer conditions continued in teacher education in ...
Joseph Warren Arnold’s Journal of His Trip to and from Montana, 1864-1866
Joseph Warren Arnold was born in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania in 1841. He attended school in Springville, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio. When he felt the lure ...
The Diaries and Writings of George A Maston, Black Citizen of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1901-1913,
John Maston was born into slavery, February 3, 1849, in West Virginia. Young George escaped to Ohio in 1862 with Union Army Captain Israel B Murdock. He was taught the ...
Fremont’s Love Opera House
In the early twentieth century the Love Opera House provided varied entertainments for residents of Fremont. Local people sometimes appeared there as actors or singers, ...
The Brownville Story: Portrait of a Phoenix, 1854-1974
The year was 1854, just a half-century after Lewis and Clark's valiant expedition into the Louisiana Territory, and thirteen years before the state of Nebraska would be ...
Bellevue: The First Twenty Years
This article has been an attempt to explore the founding and early growth of Bellevue, Nebraska on the basis of some new data and, to a degree, upon a reinterpretation ...
Psychology at the University of Nebraska, 1889-1930
The University of Nebraska produced numerous prominent psychologists, despite being a state whose population statistics should not merit such a number. This article ...
The Governor and the Guard in the Omaha Tram Strike of 1935
At the height of violence in the Omaha streetcar strike of 1935 Nebraska's new governor, Robert Leroy ("Roy") Cochran, called out the National Guard and declared martial ...
The Omaha Business Men’s Association and the Open Shop, 1903-1909
Socially prominent local businessmen led the anti-union movement in Omaha in the early twentieth century. Many unions survived, but the open shop principle promoted by ...
Photographing Across the Plains: Charles R Savage in 1866
The only known photographs of overland emigrants crossing Nebraska, in possession of the Nebraska State Historical Society, were taken by Charles R Savage. Savage is ...
Nebraska’s Women Photographers
Most research on Nebraska photographers has concentrated upon well-known figures such as William Henry Jackson, Frank A. Rinehart, Solomon D. Butcher, and Louis ...
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