“Girls, if you want to vote…”: fraud, condescension, and voting rights in 1919 Nebraska
Anti-suffragists reacted to Nebraska's 1917 limited suffrage law with a mix of condescension and actual fraud. But it didn't work.
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Omaha
What We Found
One Leg in the Grave!
Omaha police officer James MacDonald spent a decade with one leg literally in the grave.
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Our new trustees for 2019
Charles Schroeder of Eagle and David C. Levy of Omaha have joined our Board of Trustees for 2019.
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Billy clubs and vagrancy laws: hobos in Nebraska
What was it like to live as a hobo? And what did hobos experience in Nebraska?
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Was William Jennings Bryan a Good Newspaper Editor?
Did you know William Jennings Bryan was the editor of the Omaha World-Herald for two years? Or that he didn't do a lot of actual editing in that time?
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Marker Monday: George and Sarah Joslyn Home
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today's focus is Joslyn Castle, a 34-room house built in 1903 and designed to ...
The Making of a Senator: The Early Life of Hugh Butler
Senator Hugh Alfred Butler was one of Nebraska's most well-known, but least understood politicians. The voters of Nebraska who elected Butler to the United States Senate ...
Territorial Omaha as a Staging and Freighting Center
The area designated by Congress in 1854 as the Nebraska Territory was organized in part to clear the way for the eventual passage of a transcontinental railroad through ...
The Anti-Greek Riot of 1909
On Saturday, February 20, 1909, the headline of the World-Herald Herald read "Ed Lowery, South Omaha Policeman, Is Shot and Killed By Greek." The bold type was followed ...
Joseph Warren Arnold’s Journal of His Trip to and from Montana, 1864-1866
Joseph Warren Arnold was born in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania in 1841. He attended school in Springville, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio. When he felt the lure ...
The Governor and the Guard in the Omaha Tram Strike of 1935
At the height of violence in the Omaha streetcar strike of 1935 Nebraska's new governor, Robert Leroy ("Roy") Cochran, called out the National Guard and declared martial ...
The Omaha Business Men’s Association and the Open Shop, 1903-1909
Socially prominent local businessmen led the anti-union movement in Omaha in the early twentieth century. Many unions survived, but the open shop principle promoted by ...
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