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 ...
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Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad
In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...
Discover the History Nebraska Manuscript Collections
Lincoln Sport Plane, blueprint drawing [RG3726.AM: Encil Chambers]
For this October’s celebration of Archives Month, we would like to tell you a little more about ...
University of Omaha Football Photographs
Since 2006, October has been designated American Archives Month to raise awareness about the value and work of archives and archivists. To celebrate, we are sharing ...
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 ...
Care, Preserve, Treat
In terms of preservation, the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the state’s best-kept secrets—and we’re trying to change that! We are the only ...
Timeline Tuesday: Plenty of Work
Job hunters in Omaha during the booming 1880s had an easier time than those seeking work today. A reporter for the Omaha Daily Bee in the fall of 1888 "made the rounds ...
“Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings”: The Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon – Daniel D. Spegel
"The use of warehouses will offend some citizens. They will ask how a warehouse can be beautiful, for only state capitols or things that had an aesthetic intent can be ...
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 ...
Timeline Tuesday: Business Education
Practical business education has changed greatly during the last century. Once mandatory, penmanship and typing courses have been replaced by instruction in keyboarding. ...
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