by David Bristow | May 24, 2023 | Blog
By David L. Bristow May 24, 2023 Fifty years ago the women’s basketball team of tiny John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo traveled to China for a series of games against the Chinese women’s national team–a story that combines international politics, changing...
by David Bristow | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog
“I honestly believe there is no sound reason why women should not be in business,” Miss Loretta Larsen told the Omaha Bee-News in 1930. Larsen appeared in this series of photos when she won a contest sponsored by the newspaper. The reporter was...
by David Bristow | Mar 1, 2023 | Blog
By David L. Bristow, Editor Jim Brogden was browsing an estate sale in Acworth, Georgia, when he noticed this beautiful trophy. It tells a story not only of a basketball team, but also of a generation-long reaction against girls’ and womens’ sports. Brogden...
by David Bristow | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog
Evelyn Sharp wasn’t Nebraska’s first female pilot, but is remembered for all she accomplished during her brief life. Sharp’s father owned a café in Ord and rented rooms. When Sharp was sixteen, one of the boarders was a man who had opened a local flying school. At one...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
Frontier County, Nebraska, disallowed female jurors until 1962 and did not empanel its first female jurors until 1966. By John F. Hanson Editor’s note: John F. Hanson, attorney and History Nebraska member, provided the following recollection of a unique event in the...
