…Talk About the Drought! President Roosevelt Visits Nebraska Panhandle
In an earlier post we we recalled the effects of the 1890s drought in Nebraska. Unfortunately, it would not be the last. In 1936, Nebraska farmers were facing similar ...
Great Depression
What We Found
Historic Detail in Minden’s Depression-Era Art
In a previous post, we told you about Nebraska’s twelve post office murals, as presented in Robert Puschendorf’s new book Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Nebraska’s Post Office Murals
Nebraska’s Post Office Murals Explores New Deal Legacy
Nebraska's Post Office Murals is now available at Amazon Prime.
Public art is among the most ...
A Spainish Fortune for Kearney – Maybe
Modern attempts to defraud the unwary via the internet by offering cash rewards in exchange for helping someone recover funds (with the helper required to make an ...
Nebraska’s Skies Inspire Batik Map
This batik map of Nebraska was created by Lincoln artist Lilian Ibser while employed by the federal government on the Public Works of Art Program (PWAP). The PWAP was a ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, FERA Canning Center in Norfolk
Who has been doing some canning this fall? Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a group of men seated a table preparing beans for canning. The men worked under ...
A Nebraska Guidebook
The 1930s were hard times for many Nebraskans, but it was also a time of expanding horizons. Wider availability of cars meant more families could travel the state. To ...
Rudolph E. Umland and the Federal Writers’ Project
The Federal Writers' Project helped many writers get through the hard times of Great Depression. Rudolph Umland was one of many that helped the FWP publish thirty ...
Influential Women Artists of Nebraska
Nebraska's women artists that were active between 1880 and 1950 left a huge legacy, but you might not know that at first glance.
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See? Coronado Made it to Nebraska After All
Historians long believed that in 1541, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado became the first European explorer to reach the Platte River in Nebraska. By the 1890s, historical ...
Drought, trains, and a chicken dinner: FDR’s 1936 campaign stop in Fremont
It was billed as a presidential tour of the drought-stricken areas of the Midwest, but President Franklin Roosevelt was in full campaign mode when his train stopped in ...
The Great Depression in Dawes County
For several years bank crises, national economic depression, and environmental calamity descended on Dawes County.
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