Indigenous People Day and Columbus Day
In recent years, some states, cities, and localities have augmented or replaced traditional observances of Columbus Day (now a federal holiday observed annually on the ...
Omaha
What We Found
The World’s Fair of the Midwest
The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, also known as Omaha World’s Fair, was held in Omaha, Nebraska, from June to November 1898. The Trans-Mississippi and ...
Marker Monday: Central High School
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The first session of Omaha High School, now Central High School, was held on November 10, 1859, in Nebraska's territorial capitol on ...
Nebraska’s Five Capitols
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Our state capitol is one of the nation’s most recognizable, but did you know it’s the third capitol built on that spot, and the fifth to ...
Nebraska’s First Jewish Newspaper
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant (2021)
“Newspapers are said to be the first draft of history.”
A short-lived twentieth-century newspaper now provides ...
A Winter Fire in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska
Early on January 4, 1940, a fire broke out in the Henshaw Hotel. The hotel, located at 1511 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska, was one of many hotels in the downtown ...
Marker Monday: The Bank of Florence
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The Bank of Florence was chartered by the Nebraska Territorial legislature on January 18, 1856. It was located in this substantial building, ...
Two Governors Welcome a President to Omaha
In 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visited Omaha on a return trip to Washington, D.C. from the Pacific Coast. Omaha’s Morning World-Herald on May 14 noted that ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, North Side Community Center
February is Black History Month. This photograph celebrates the brave African-American men and women who served in the military during World War II. Taken in October ...
Marker Monday: Malcolm X
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925. He was the son of Earl and Louise Little, ...
Flashback Friday: History of the Omahawks
From 1972 until 1975 the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA), played a handful of home games in Omaha’s Civic ...
No Irish Babies Born in Nebraska in 1912
When the Nebraska State Board of Health released statistics in December 1912 on various aspects of life in this state, it probably didn’t expect to provoke any ...
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