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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Omaha
What We Found
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: Nebraska School for the Deaf
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Nebraska School for the Deaf, established in ...
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 ...
Ziegfeld Girls
Ziegfeld's Follies, stage spectaculars mounted by Broadway impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld from 1907 through 1931, featured prominent composers, elaborate costumes and ...
Whitney Young Jr’s Time in Omaha
Before Whitney Young Jr was a nationally known civil rights leader, he was a local leader in the Omaha chapter of the National Urban League.
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Omaha in 1860
When Henry Palmer of Wisconsin visited Omaha in 1860, he saw a city that was only a shadow of what it would become. Well, mostly what he saw was "prairie covered with ...
Parachuting Accident
On July 3, 1893, thousands of people gathered at Courtland beach to watch 19-year-old Roy Elser make a parachute jump. Instead, they witnessed a tragedy.
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Ice Cream Cones Seized, 1910
In August 1910, the Nebraska State Journal gleefully reported a record-breaking raid by US Marshals in Omaha. The confiscated goods? 185,000 ice cream cones.
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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 ...
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