Opening Doors: Film Director Joan Micklin Silver of Omaha
This article appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Nebraska State Historical Society members receive four issues of the magazine per year. The ...
Omaha
What We Found
Omaha’s Shocking Nineteenth-Century Art
In 1890 a young man named Carey Judson Warbington picked up a chair and began smashing a painting that hung in an Omaha gallery. The painting was Return of Spring by ...
Marker Monday: World War II Hero Charles Jackson French
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The “Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office” is named in honor of an Omaha sailor. Born in Arkansas, French moved to Omaha to live ...
An “April Fool Lie”
Readers of the Omaha Daily Bee on April 2, 1885, must have been astounded to learn of the sighting of a gigantic serpent in the Missouri River near Omaha. The Bee’s ...
Marker Monday: Vivian Strong
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On June 24, 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was shot and killed by James Loder, a white police officer, while leaving a party in the Logan ...
The Fourth of July at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
Independence Day at Omaha's Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in 1898 was marked by a memorable parade and a celebration of American victory ...
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