Chautauqua in Scottsbluff
As a recreational and learning experience, Chautauqua had much to offer: operas, plays, famous speakers, and classes on art, religion, and music, to name just a few. The ...
Scottsbluff
What We Found
Bryan Still Popular in Nebraska in 1908
The U.S. presidential election of 1908 was not a close race. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, chose William ...
Marker Monday: Scotts Bluff Army Air Field
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During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces operated a satellite airfield at this site. In the fall of 1942 twenty-eight farms were vacated ...
How Does Chimney Rock Change Every Day? CR365 Puts the Rock on Daily Display
One of Nebraska’s most iconic landmarks is getting some daily attention from two Sandhills photographers and over 3,000 of their fans. Friends and photography partners ...
Investigating a 1910 Scottsbluff Panorama
Here's a panoramic view of Scottsbluff from about 1910. It's too wide for this blog, so we've broken it into pieces below.
Scottsbluff is one of the younger cities in ...
NH Spring Issue 19
These efforts crystallized in two initiatives. One was the Migrant Action Program, which assisted in the creation of the Nebraska Association of Farm Workers. The other ...
Nebraska’s Mexican Communities, 1910-1950
Ten percent of Nebraskans are Latino, part of a statewide community that is more than a century old. At first it was specifically a Mexican and Mexican-American ...
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