“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
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Nebraska’s first school newspaper celebrated a radical idea: free schools
Published weekly by Omaha high school students starting in 1859, the Free School Advocate celebrated an idea that was was not yet fully embraced across the US: free ...
The 1874 State Fair: A Time to Show Off
The 1874 state fair in Omaha was supposed to be a chance for Nebraska to show off its agricultural potential. A massive swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts had different ...
Conserving an Omaha Performer’s Legacy
Recently the Ford Conservation Center treated a large photograph from the mid-1920s. It was brought in by the descendants of Mildred Mae Moorman (nee Jacque, ...
Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Rights Activist and “The Father of Negro Musicians of Omaha”
Jazz critic and historian George Lipsitz has observed that "established histories of jazz tend to focus on a select group of individual geniuses in only a ...
Archeology of the Sedentary Siouan Tribes in Nebraska
While Nebraska is known for its remarkable record of Pawnee archeology, the state also is home to an important archeological record of tribes known collectively as ...
The Girls of Company Z
An 1890s Omaha photo shows three young women dressed in what look like men’s military cadet uniforms. It was frowned upon for women to be dressed in such a manner, so ...
Winter Quarters GPR Survey
Early in September, State Archeology Office staff assisted the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Omaha with a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey of ...
On This Day: Armistice Celebrated Early
The armistice to end World War I signed at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month was greeted with great rejoicing in Nebraska towns. ...
The 1918 Flu Pandemic in Nebraska
World War I killed some 15 to 19 million people, but the 1918 flu pandemic was far worse. As the flu raged around the world, Nebraska communities responded.
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The Birth of the South Omaha Stockyards
In one decade, the South Omaha stockyards went from a single farm to a major meat center. The 1880s were a time of explosive growth for South Omaha, yet surprisingly few ...
Cudahy Kidnapping
The kidnapping of sixteen-year-old Edward Cudahy Jr., son of the prominent Omaha meatpacker, was one of the most sensational crimes in Nebraska history. The boy was ...
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