How a Nebraska company changed Americans’ eating habits
Gerry Thomas, University of Nebraska alumnus and salesman for Omaha-based C. A. Swanson and Sons has been credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1954. The concept ...
Omaha
What We Found
A “Lady Patrolman” in Omaha?
By 1970 the Omaha Police Department had a few “policewomen,” but they were not allowed in cruisers and were not full police officers, or “patrolmen” as the city called ...
The St. Paul Church Riot
On the night of March 27, 1895, Elia W. Peattie one of the first female news reporters in Omaha, visited the diverse neighborhood of Sheelytown to report a fire. Located ...
Finding a New Nickname for Nebraskans
The Pioneer Record (Verdon), the organ of the Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Association, in November 1894 included a brief article written by John A. MacMurphy on ...
Special Issue of Nebraska History Investigates Engineer Cantonment
How do you find a historic site that’s been lost for nearly 200 years? Until 2003 no one knew if the 1819-20 winter quarters of the Stephen Long Expedition still ...
Nebraska’s On-Again Off-Again Relationship with the Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the US Constitution intended to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of the persons’ sex. In ...
“A Double Mixture”: Equality and Economy in the Integration of Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883
Most Americans associate the history of school segregation with Southern and urban communities, a physical distance that may create a sense of separation for some ...
School Safety Patrol
With the rise of automobiles in the 1920s, school safety patrols grew out of concerns for the well-being of students as they walked to school.
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Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha
Precisely at 10 a.m. on June 20, 1952, a stylishly dressed middle-aged black woman named Mildred Brown urged the Omaha City Council to “do all in their power to see that ...
WWI, Omaha, and eBay
By Oliver B. Pollak
The war is 100 years past; all participants are dead. Thousands of stone memorials around the world honor the combatants. New-found ephemera ...
Marker Monday: Historic Prospect Hill – Omaha’s Pioneer Cemetery
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on Omaha's Prospect Hill Cemetery, which has a ...
Marker Monday: William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on William Henry Jackson, a photographer and explorer ...
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