Nebraska History Magazine Table of Contents

Nebraska History is a quarterly, illustrated magazine that explores Nebraska’s history and culture through original articles and historical images from our extensive collections.
Each story features new research or newly-published historical materials; each is reviewed by qualified scholars before publication. The magazine also features book reviews and our popular “P.S.” — an image we’ve uncovered that has its own story to tell.
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Bryan | Winston | Author | Mexican Community Formation in Nebraska, 1910-1950 | 100 | 01 | 2019 |
Roger | Davis | Author | Service and Power: Advocacy and the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1980-1983 | 100 | 01 | 2019 |
Alan | Roesler | Author | Victory Loan Flying Circus at AK-SAR-BEN Field: No Horseplay on April 28, 1919 | 100 | 01 | 2019 |
David L. | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Blue Springs Girls’ Basketball Team, 1924 | 100 | 01 | 2019 |
Sally | Bisson-Best | Author | Doris Stevens: Nebraska’s Forgotten Suffrage Leader | 100 | 02 | 2019 |
Mark Larry | Smith Walklin | Authors | Stirring Up Conversation: The Radio Homemaker | 100 | 02 | 2019 |
Jeff | Wells | Author | “A Shystering Fraud and Blatherskate”: Paul Vandervoort and Gilded Age Politics in Nebraska | 100 | 02 | 2019 |
Gregory P. | Hinshaw | Author | The Restructuring of Great Plains Quakerism: Neo-Evangelicanism and the Creation of Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting of Friends Church | 100 | 02 | 2019 |
David L. | Bristow | Editor | Willa Cather’s Real-Life Ántonia on the Radio | 100 | 02 | 2019 |
Evan C. | Rothera | Author | “Thayer Will Not Yield”: Citizenship and the Contested 1890 Gubernatorial Election | 100 | 03 | 2019 |
Laurel | Sariscsany | Author | “They Can’t Convict Anyone Anyway”: The Trials of the Omaha Lynching and Riot of 1919 | 100 | 03 | 2019 |
Jerrald K. | Pfabe | Author | Crime in Seward County, Nebraska, 1869-1908 | 100 | 03 | 2019 |
Don | Arp, Jr. | Author | A Cold Field in December: The Tragedy of State Sheriff William Flake | 100 | 03 | 2019 |
David L. | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Who Is the Bad Man in this Photo? | 100 | 03 | 2019 |
Lisa R | Lindell | Author | “The Nebraska Cyclone”: Lillie Williams and the Embrace of Sport and Spectacle | 100 | 04 | 2019 |
Andrew | Husa | Author | Six- and Eight-Man Football and Community Identity in Nebraska | 100 | 04 | 2019 |
H Jason Tate | Combs Combs | Authors | Nebraska’s Exaggeration Postcards: Giant Grasshoppers and Two-Ton Potatoes Along with Other Facts about the Plains | 100 | 04 | 2019 |
Matthew | Pelz | Author | Fairacres: The George Brothers, George Kessler and the Development of Omaha’s “Garden Suburb” | 100 | 04 | 2019 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Football at Table Rock, 1934 | 100 | 04 | 2019 |
Robert E John R | Pepperl Bozell | Authors | Science and Survival at Engineer Cantonment: Part 1: Introduction and the Long Expedition |
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Robert E | Pepperl | Author | Part 2: The Long Expedition Stay at Engineer Cantonment |
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2018 |
Gayle F Robert E John R | Carlson Pepperl Bozell | Authors | Part 3: Discovering Engineer Cantonment and the Archeological Investigation |
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John R | Bozell et al | Authors | Part 4: Material Recovered from the Archeological Investigation |
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Hugh H Brett C | Genoways Ratcliffe | Authors | Part 5: Science at Engineer Cantonment |
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Hugh H Thomas E | Genoways Labedz | Authors | Part 6: An Engineer Cantonment Bestiary: The Art of Titian Ramsay Peale |
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John R Robert E | Bozell Pepperl | Authors | Part 7: Engineer Cantonment and the Archeology of Exploration |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: 100 Years of Nebraska History |
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Kylie | Kinley | Author | Louise Vinciquerra, Nebraska’s Bootlegger Queen | 99 | 02 | 2018 |
Harlan | Seyfer | Author | Changing Consensus on the European Discovery of the Platte River | 99 | 02 | 2018 |
John | Irwin | Author | A Farmer’s Passion for Knowledge: Benton Aldrich and the Clifton Library Association | 99 | 02 | 2018 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: See? Coronado Made It to Nebraska After All | 99 | 02 | 2018 |
Bob | Mays | Author | Start Your Engines: Nebraska Stock Car Racing Photograph by the Harold Mauck Studio | 99 | 03 | 2018 |
Jesse S | Ishikawa | Author | The Desegregation of the Lincoln Municipal Swimming Pool | 99 | 03 | 2018 |
Jo Wetherilt | Behrens | Author | “Over Hill, Over Dale”: A Nineteenth Century Biography of Omaha’s Military Road Network | 99 | 03 | 2018 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: The Return of Car 7-11 | 99 | 03 | 2018 |
Nathan | Tye | Author | Billy Clubs and Vagrancy Laws: Confronting the “Plague of Hobos” in Nebraska, 1870s-1930 | 99 | 04 | 2018 |
Randy | Kane | Author | What Did Crazy Horse Look Like? | 99 | 04 | 2018 |
Kathleen | Alonso | Author | Trail above the Plains: Flying the Airmail through Nebraska from 1920 to 1930 | 99 | 04 | 2018 |
Sharon K | Person | Author | St. Louis Trade and Traders in Indian Country 1766-1774: Valentin Devin and Jean-Baptiste Papillon | 99 | 04 | 2018 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: “Only in the Way I Saw It”: John Vachon’s Omaha | 99 | 04 | 2018 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | 150, A Pictorial History of Nebraska: Introduction |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Part I: Before 1867 |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Part II: 1867-1916 |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Part III: 1917-1966 |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Part IV: 1967-present |
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Ashley M | Howard | Author | “Then the Burnings Began”: Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence |
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Rebecca A | Buller | Author | The Walter Savidge Amusement Company |
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2017 |
Mary Ann | May-Pumphrey | Author | “c-h-i-h-u-a-h-u-a”: Jennifer Reinke’s 1967 National Spelling Bee Championship |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Bryan’s Angle of Repose |
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Kingsley M | Bray | Author | The Oglala Lakota and the Atkinson-O’Fallon Treaty of 1825 |
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Kingsley M | Bray | Author | Lakota Statesmen and the Horse Creek Treaty of 1851 |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: The First Horse Creek Treaty Marker |
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2017 |
Don | Arp Jr | Author | “Woman Scans Skylight for Finger Prints”: The Story of Omaha Police Fingerprint Expert Emily Byram |
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Marilyn Irvin | Holt | Author | Nebraska’s Base Hospital No 49 in World War I |
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2017 |
James W | Pieper | Author | “Their Home Was Flaming”: The St. Paul’s Church Riot |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: The Church Built Top to Bottom |
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Stacey | Stubbs | Author | “Gentle River Goes Mad”: The Republican River Flood of 1935 and its New Deal Legacy |
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James E | Potter | Author | “The Greatest Gathering of Indians Ever Assembled”: The 1875 Black Hills Council at Red Cloud Agency, Nebraska |
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Daryl | Webb | Editor | “The Best War I Ever Expect to Have”: Hall County Doughboys’ Letters Home |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: De Las Democracias Sera La Victoria |
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David L | Bristow | Author | Photographer C W Bonham’s North Platte Valley |
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Nick | Batter | Author | The Wayfaring Judge: Woodrough and Organized Crime in the US District Court |
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2016 |
James E | Potter | Author | “Uncle Sam’s Sharpshooters”: Military Marksmanship at Fort Omaha and Bellevue, 1882-1894 |
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David | Bristow | Author | Postscript: Tunneling the Monument, 1935 |
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Randy | Kane | Author | The “Flagpole Affair” at Red Cloud Agency: An Incident in the Cultural Transition of the Oglala Lakota |
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Jo L | Wetherilt Behrens | Author | Women at the Intersection of Secular and Spiritual Community: The Deaconess Program in Episcopal Bishop Robert Harper Clarkson’s Nebraska Diocese |
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2016 |
Jerrald K | Pfabe | Author | Divorce in Seward County, Nebraska, 1869-1906 |
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2016 |
David | Bristow | Author | Postscript: He’s Not Bitter |
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James E | Potter | Author | The State Flag and the Great Seal: The Historical Ups and Downs of Two Nebraska Icons |
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2016 |
Paul Emory | Putz | Author | Big-League Basketball Comes to Omaha: A History of the “Omahawks” |
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2016 |
Ann Jim Dayle Gayle | Bleed Barr Williamson Starr | Authors | The Creation of Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts |
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2016 |
David L | Bristow | Author | Postscript: Fighting Words |
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Brian | Sarnacki | Author | “In the biting stage”: The 1955 Nebraska State Penitentiary Riots and Violent Prison Activism |
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Bruce | Gerhardt | Author | A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth Century Soccer in Omaha |
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2015 |
Roger P | Davis | Author | The Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans at the Crossroads: The Dilemma of False Expectations—Neither Service nor Power, 1973-1980 |
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Thomas M | Spencer | Author | “Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days”: The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha |
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John T | Bauer | Author | 1,733 Miles from Where? Kearney, Nebraska’s 1733 Identity |
96 |
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2015 |
Amy Helene | Forss | Author | “One Can Be an Influence”: Nebraska Farm Wife Doris Royal’s Successful Campaign Against the Widow’s Tax |
96 |
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2015 |
Kent | Morgan | Author | The 1890 Lincoln Giants: Professional Baseball’s Unlikely Return to Nebraska’s Capital City |
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2015 |
Juliet | Sorenson | Author | Plains Crusader: C A Sorensen’s Assault on Organized Crime and the Political Machine in Omaha |
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2015 |
James E | Potter | Author | Thomas B Hord: From the Open Range to “The Largest Live Stock Feeding Enterprise in the United States” |
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2015 |
Paul Emory | Putz | Autor | From the Pulpit to the Press: Frank Crane’s Omaha, 1892-1896 |
96 |
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2015 |
L Robert | Puschendorf | Author | Lifting Our People Out of the Mud: The Good Roads Movement in Nebraska |
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2015 |
Patricia C | Gaster | Author | Pen Pictures and Prose Poems: Walt Mason in Nebraska |
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2015 |
Griffen | Farrar | Author | An Issei on the Plains: The Story of Richi Ugai |
96 |
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2015 |
David | Bristow | Author | After the Indian Wars: People, Places, and Episodes: Introduction |
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2014 |
Paul L | Hedren | Author | Fort Robinson, Custer, and the Legacy of the Great Sioux War |
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2014 |
Thomas R | Buecker | Author | “Pretty Well Fixed for Defense”: Enclosed Army Posts in the Northern Plains, 1819-1872 |
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2014 |
Brian G | Shellum | Author | Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers after the Indian Wars |
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2014 |
Brian | Dippie | Author | The Changing Image of George Armstrong Custer |
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2014 |
Jerome A | Greene | Author | On the Brink: The Pre-Wounded Knee Army Deployment of 1890 |
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2014 |
Thomas | Powers | Author | The Crazy Horse Medicine Bundle |
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Postscript: Camp Robinson, 1875 |
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Thomas R | Buecker | Author | The Father of Lincoln, Nebraska: The Life and Times of Thomas P Kennard |
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2014 |
John | Ludwickson | Author | The Death and Burial of Big Elk, the Great Omaha Chief |
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2014 |
Dan | Jibreus | Author | The Long Journey of White Fox |
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Postscript: Building the First Nebraska State Capitol |
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Margaret | Powell | Author | Ann Lowe and the Intriguing Couture Tradition of Ak-Sar-Ben |
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2014 |
Patricia C | Gaster | Author | William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and the Prohibition Party Ticket of 1920 |
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2014 |
Gene | Kopelson | Author | The 1968 Nebraska Republican Primary |
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2014 |
Gene | Kopelson | Author | The Curious Candidacy of Americus Liberator |
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2014 |
Kent | Ahrens | Author | Avard T Fairbanks and the Winter Quarters Monument |
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2014 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Settling an Election Bet, 1912 | 95 | 03 | 2014 |
Samuel James E | Van Pelt Potter | Author Editor | “Lum’s Boy”: The World War II Recollections of John R “Dugie” Doyle |
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Katharine | Bjork | Author | Prairie Imperialists: The Bureau of Insular Affairs and Continuities in Colonial Expansion from Nebraska to Cuba and the Philippines |
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2014 |
Brian P | Croft | Author | Mapping Nebraska, 1866-1871: County Boundaries, Real and Imagined |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Grand Grocery, 1942 | 95 | 04 | 2014 |
Mary Ellen Elaine Rebecca | Ducey Nowick Bernthal | Author Author Author | Frank H Shoemaker, Self-Made Naturalist and Photographer |
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Bill | Avery | Author | Folkways of a One-House Legislature |
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2013 |
Mary Ann | May-Pumphrey | Author | “Send a Valentine to Your Valentine from Valentine, Nebraska”: The Cachet Program |
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2013 |
Dan | Holtz | Author | The Folk Songs of Great Plains Homesteading: Anthems, Laments, and Political Songs |
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Postscript: Hammer Gang |
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Paul | Putz | Author | A Church for the People and a Priest for the Common Man: Charles W Savidge, Omaha’s Eccentric Reformer |
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David C Shannon M | Turpie Risk | Author Author | “Definitely Representative of Nebraska”: Jeanine Giller, Miss Nebraska 1972, and the Politics of Beauty Pageants |
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Patricia C | Gaster | Author | “A Celestial Visitor” Revisited: A Nebraska Newspaper Hoax from 1884 |
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Postscript: Fires in Benkelman |
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Adam | Shapiro | Author | “Scopes Wasn’t the First”: Nebraska’s 1924 Anti-Evolution Trial |
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Dennis N | Mihelich | Author | Ed Creighton’s $100,000 Loan to Brigham Young |
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2013 |
James E | Potter | Author | “A Peculiar Set of Men”: Nebraska Cowboys of the Open Rang |
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2013 |
Rebecca J | Anderson | Author | “Grandma Gabel, she brought Ralph”: Midwifery and the Lincoln, Nebraska, Department of Health in the Early Twenteth Century |
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Lois B | Arnold | Author | The Barbours: A Family in Paleontology |
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John E | Carter | Author | The Birth of the South Omaha Stockyards: A Photographic Essay |
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2013 |
Roger | Welsch | Author | What Can be Gained by Sitting Down, Shutting Up, and Listening |
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Deb | Arenz | Author | The Illustrator’s Pencil: John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post |
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Chris | Rasmussen | Author | Vox Populi of Omaha: Todd Storz and the Top 40 Radio Format in American Culture |
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David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: The Art of Jazz |
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Daniel D | Spegel | Author | “Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings”: The Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon |
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Nick | Batter | Author | The Shoulders of Atlas: Rural Communities and Nuclear Missile Base Construction in Nebraska, 1958-1962 |
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2012 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Be Prepared |
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John T | Bauer | Author | The Gliddenites are Coming! Nebraska and the 1909 Glidden Tour |
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Patricia C | Gaster | Author | Kate Martin and the Historic St. Charles Hotel |
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2012 |
James E | Potter | Author | “Wearing the Hempen Neck-Tie”: Lynching in Nebraska |
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2012 |
David L | Bristow | Editor | Postscript: Auto Livery |
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2012 |
Tina | Koeppe | Author | The Best-Dressed Doll in the World: Nebraska’s Own Terri Lee |
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Amanda N | Johnson | Author | Illuminating the West: The Wonder of Electric Lighting at Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 |
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Postscript: The Auction |
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Mark Larry | Smith Walklin | Author Author | The Early Years of Talk Radio: WJAG, Norfolk, Nebraska |
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Jo L Wetherilt | Behrens | Author | “Painting the Town”: How Merchants Marketed the Visual Arts to Nineteenth-Century Omahans | 92 |
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David Royce | Murphy | Author | The Art of the Panorama |
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Thomas | Irvin | Author | The Political and Journalistic Battles to Create Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature |
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2011 |
David L | Bristow | Author | Postscript: Sound Effects |
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2011 |
David Delbert | Kruger | Author | Main Street Empire: J C Penney in Nebraska |
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2011 |
Martha H | Fitzgerald | Author | Courtship of Two Doctors: 1930s Letters Spotlight Nebraska Medical Training |
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Postcards from Long Pine |
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Rebecca A | Buller | Author | Intersections of Place, Time, and Entertainment in Nebraska’s Hidden Paradise |
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2011 |
David L | Bristow | Author | Postscript: Jumpin’ with Gold’s |
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2011 |
Jesse J | Otto | Author | Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Rights Activist and “The Father of Negro Musicians of Omaha” |
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Patricia C | Gaster | Author | The Nebraska Statesman: The People Behind the Picture |
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David R | Christensen | Author | “I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”: Non-Indian and Lakota Racial Relationships in Box Butte County’s Potato Industry, 1917-1960 |
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Postscript: Sandhill Prosperity |
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James E | Potter | Author | Horses: The Army’s Achilles’ Heel in the Civil War Plains Campaigns of 1864-1865 |
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Kristin | Mapel Bloomberg | Author | “How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!” Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s |
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Todd | Guenther | Author | “The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand”: Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha |
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Postscript: Eve of Game Day |
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John D | McDermott | Author | The Plains Forts: A Harsh Environment |
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August James E Edith Edith | Scherneckau Potter Robbins Robbins | Editor Editor Editor Translator | Soldiering in the Platte Valley, 1865: A Nebraska Cavalryman’s Diary |
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David L | Bristow | Author | Post Script: Taking the Census 100 Years Ago |
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2010 |
Thomas R | Buecker | Author | Letters from Home: Prisoner of War Mail at the Fort Robinson Camp during World War II |
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Patricia C | Gaster | Author | Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln |
91 |
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2010 |
Paul L | Hedren | Author | Camp Sheridan, Nebraska: The Uncommonly Quiet Post on Beaver Creek |
91 |
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2010 |
Russ | Crawford | Author | Nebraska Football and Michael Oriard’s Bowled Over: A Review Essay |
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2010 |
Postscript: Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances |
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David | Bristow | Editor | African-Americans in Nebraska: Introduction |
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James E | Potter | Author | “Equality Before the Law”: Thoughts on the Origin of Nebraska’s State Motto |
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Tekla Ali John R Abigail B | Johnson Wunder Anderson | Author | Always on My Mind: Frederick Douglass’s Nebraska Sister |
91 |
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David J Peavler | Trowbridge | Author | “A Double Mixture”: Equality and Economy in the Integration of Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883 |
91 |
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2010 |
Orville D | Menard | Author | Lest We Forget: The Lynching of Will Brown, Omaha’s 1919 Race Riot |
91 |
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2010 |
Jennifer | Hildebrand | Author | New Negro Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska (The) |
91 |
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2010 |
Amy Helene | Forss | Author | Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha, Nebraska’s Near North Side, 1947-1960 |
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Postscript: Mocking the Klan |
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