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Nebraska's History | Your family's future Stories about Nebraska History
What is Engineer Cantonment? And why is it so cool that we found it?
Back in 2003, NSHS archeologist Gayle Carlson quipped (in his usual deadpan way) that he could “die in peace, now that Engineer Cantonment has been found.”
He was ...
Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha
Precisely at 10 a.m. on June 20, 1952, a stylishly dressed middle-aged black woman named Mildred Brown urged the Omaha City Council to “do all in their power to see that ...
Marker Monday: Wild Horse Spring
Location
Wild Horse Spring, Eckery, Perkins County, Nebraska
View this marker's location at 40.906586, -101.7283
Marker Text
Named for the beautiful, spirited ...
The New Negro Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska
The New Negro Movement (NNM)—a term used here as opposed to the commonly used “Harlem Renaissance”—occurred not just in Harlem, and not just in large metropolitan areas. ...
School Safety Patrol
With the rise of automobiles in the 1920s, school safety patrols grew out of concerns for the well-being of students as they walked to school.
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“A Double Mixture”: Equality and Economy in the Integration of Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883
Most Americans associate the history of school segregation with Southern and urban communities, a physical distance that may create a sense of separation for some ...
