Patrick Egan and Nebraska’s Center For Irish Home Rule
Patrick Egan's political career spanned both sides of the Atlantic and included a stint in Lincoln, during which time he helped make the capital a center for Irish Home ...
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Quality 19th Century Entertainment At The Lincoln’s Funke Opera House
In its heyday, the Funke Opera House was a popular Lincoln destination. It even had the distinction of being the venue for the city's very first screened movies.
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Griswold’s Description of Corbett vs. Mitchell
Samuel Griswold, the early 20th-century World-Herald sports editor, was well known for his fiery boxing reporting.
He once described a match between James Corbett and ...
Throwback Thursday, History Nebraska Archeology Lab 1935
A glimpse into History Nebraska's own past! This photo shows three men working in our Archeology Lab in 1935.
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Dr. Keeley’s Gold Cure for the Liquor Habit
The preeminent anti-addiction specialist of the late-nineteenth century was Dr. Leslie Keeley, who promised to cure addicts with injections of "gold bichloride." It ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, The Mug
1930s Lincoln loved novelty food stands. Our favorite was the root beer stand that was shaped like root beer, but if root beer had eyes and hair and could smile.
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Scenes From Nebraska’s World War I Experience
World War I had a massive impact on every state in the Union, and Nebraska was no exception. This video, produced after the war, shows some of Nebraska's World War I ...
Farm Strike! The 1977 Tractorcade
On December 10, 1977, Lincoln experienced one of its worst traffic jams ever, as over a thousand tractors and farm trucks descended on the capital to send a message: ...
Marker Monday: The Lewis-Syford House
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on a Lincoln landmark and the oldest remaining building on the ...
Great Independent: The Lincoln Telephone company, 1903-1908
The Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company began life competing with the much bigger Bell system, but was able to replace it over time. Read more about how it found its ...
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 ...
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 ...
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