Flashback Friday: The Creation Of Nebraska Natural Resource District
You probably already know that Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. that has a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature, and is the only state where all electrical ...
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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 ...
Flashback Friday: The Gliddenites are Coming! Nebraska and the 1909 Glidden Tour
Contestants checking in at Kearney. The location is probably East Twenty-fifth Street (present U.S. 30). The Number 9 and 108 cars in front went on to win trophies. ...
Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth-Century Soccer in Omaha
What Americans call “soccer” is one of several sports that evolved from games played for centuries in Europe, loosely called “football.” The history of the sport in ...
Flashback Friday: Photographer C. W. Bonham’s North Platte Valley
A Scottsbluff man was browsing an estate sale in 2014 when he noticed a box full of glass plate photographic negatives. Many were broken, but twenty-six were whole and ...
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 ...
Flashback Friday: The Shoulders of Atlas: Rural Communities and Nuclear Missile Base Construction in Nebraska, 1958-1962 – Nick Batter
On a Friday afternoon in October 1958, more than a thousand people gathered in Mead, Nebraska, for the opening of the Farmer's Union Co-op Grain Elevator. Flyers ...
Flashback Friday: “Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days”: The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha – Thomas M. Spencer
Like much of the nation, Omaha in 1895 was struggling in the doldrums of the Panic of 1893, one of the worst and longest economic downturns in the nation’s history. Some ...
Flashback Friday: Frank H. Shoemaker, Self-Made Naturalist and Photographer – Mary Ellen Ducey, Elaine Nowick, and Rebecca Bernthal
Frank Shoemaker ranks among important early Nebraskans who applied their interest in nature to learning more about the state and its environmental history. As an amateur ...
Flashback Friday: A Church for the People and a Priest for the Common Man: Charles. W. Savidge, Omaha’s Eccentric Reformer (1882-1935) – Paul Putz
The hum and bustle of reform seemed to be everywhere in Omaha in July of 1892. Economic instability and uncertainty hovered, foreshadowing the impending Panic of 1893. ...
Flashback Friday: “A Celestial Visitor” Revisited: A Nebraska Newspaper Hoax From 1884 – Patricia C. Gaster
One of the oddest events in Nebraska’s history was said to have taken place about thirty-five miles northwest of Benkelman in SW Nebraska on June 6, 1884, when a ...
Flashback Friday: “Scopes Wasn’t the First”: Nebraska’s 1924 Anti-Evolution Trial – Adam Shapiro
The waning days of the 1924 presidential campaign found William Jennings Bryan back in his former home state of Nebraska. On Friday evening, October 17, 1924, the man ...
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