Discover some little-known facts, fascinating people, and interesting tales from global, world and state history. View: 20 40 All Quick View Quick View “We the People”: The Evolution of Voting Rights in the United StatesRead more Quick View Quick View 19th Century Fun, Farces and FrivolitiesRead more Quick View Quick View 24th & Glory – The Intersection of Civil Rights and Omaha’s Greatest Generation of AthletesRead more Quick View Quick View A Visit With Lady VesteyRead more Quick View Quick View A Visit With the Nebraska State Poet, Jewel RodgersRead more Quick View Quick View Aaron Douglas, UNL Class of ’22: Visual Artist of the Harlem RenaissanceRead more Quick View Quick View Abraham Lincoln, America’s Greatest Political OratorRead more Quick View Quick View Abraham Lincoln: The Personal SideRead more Quick View Quick View Adam Clayton Powell: A Living History PresentationRead more Quick View Quick View Aesop in AmericaRead more Quick View Quick View African Presence in Spanish AmericaRead more Quick View Quick View African-American Soldiers in the Civil War: Fighting on Two FrontsRead more Quick View Quick View Ahead of Their Time-The Story of the Omaha DePorres ClubRead more Quick View Quick View All Orginal, All NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Amazing Library of Thomas Jefferson FitzpatrickRead more Quick View Quick View America 100: The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaRead more Quick View Quick View America and the Great War: 1914-1918Read more Quick View Quick View America in the Eyes of an Islamic FundamentalistRead more Quick View Quick View American Flag and National Unity in World War II (virtual program)Read more Quick View Quick View American History Told Through Mexican American EyesRead more Quick View Quick View Andrew CarnegieRead more Quick View Quick View Aprons, Skirts, Hats & Flirts: Women – Their Range of Status During the Western MovementRead more Quick View Quick View Artist’s Vision – Gene RonckaRead more Quick View Quick View Bad Man in a Better Place: Jesse James in NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Bess Streeter Aldrich: In Her Own WordsRead more Quick View Quick View Black Jack Pershing: Love and WarRead more Quick View Quick View Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha StarRead more Quick View Quick View Born to ReinRead more Quick View Quick View Brief History of the Five Tribes of Nebraska: Omaha, Ponca, Pawnee, Santee, and WinnebagoRead more Quick View Quick View Buffalo Bill’s NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Call of the West: Challenges and OpportunitiesRead more Quick View Quick View Cattle Towns and Soiled DovesRead more Quick View Quick View Cattle Trail and Songs of the WestRead more Quick View Quick View Century of Fashion: 1870-1970Read more Quick View Quick View Children Stories, Animal Stories and Traditional Lakota StoriesRead more Quick View Quick View Christmas Memories from the 1940sRead more Quick View Quick View Civil War MedicineRead more Quick View Quick View Clues to Clara: The Rediscovery of Local Women’s HistoryRead more Quick View Quick View Colonel Thomas Doane: Massachusetts Engineer to Nebraska Civic and Educational LeaderRead more Quick View Quick View Comics Books, Superheroes, and World War II (virtual program)Read more Quick View Quick View Community Oral History Projects: An Interactive Workshop with Mary Kay QuinlanRead more Quick View Quick View Completing, Remembering, and Forgetting the Civil WarRead more Quick View Quick View Contemporary Politics and Society in the Czech and Slovak RepublicsRead more Quick View Quick View Corps of Discovery in Song and StoryRead more Quick View Quick View Cowboy Poetry and Nighthawk TunesRead more Quick View Quick View Curious Stairway Mural and Eugene Kingman’s NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Cycles of Voter SuppressionRead more Quick View Quick View Czech Folk Costumes (kroje)Read more Quick View Quick View Czech-Americans in NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Dawn in the NightRead more Quick View Quick View Diaries and Letters of Early Nebraska SettlersRead more Quick View Quick View Discoveries from the FortepianoRead more Quick View Quick View Doris Stevens: Nebraska’s Forgotten Suffrage LeaderRead more Quick View Quick View Dreams & Goals: Pioneers Striving for SuccessRead more Quick View Quick View Dust Bowl DescentRead more Quick View Quick View Echoes of an EraRead more Quick View Quick View Elizabeth I: Power, Politics and SexualityRead more Quick View Quick View Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan TrainRead more Quick View Quick View Exploring a Native American Holistic View of WaterRead more Quick View Quick View Father Edward J. Flanagan of Boys TownRead more Quick View Quick View Fiddle Origins: From Wales to Weeping WaterRead more Quick View Quick View Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains: Nebraska’s Underground RailroadRead more Quick View Quick View Footprints & Handprints: Days on the Farm in the 19th CenturyRead more Quick View Quick View Forts of NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Forts of the Missouri River ValleyRead more Quick View Quick View Founding of Omaha: 1854-1860Read more Quick View Quick View Frederick Douglass – The Voice of AbolitionRead more Quick View Quick View From Bleeding Kansas to Old Virginny: Songs and Stories of the Civil WarRead more Quick View Quick View From Society Page to Front Page: Unsung Women of the Nebraska PressRead more Quick View Quick View From the Plains to Paris: Literary Community, Female Journalists, and the Exploits of Midwesterners AbroadRead more Quick View Quick View Frontier Military Posts (And the Women Who Called Them Home)Read more Quick View Quick View George Custer and the Great Plains: History, Landscape, and LegacyRead more Quick View Quick View George Shannon: Youngest Member of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionRead more Quick View Quick View Getting to Know Weldon Kees Through His Songs and LyricsRead more Quick View Quick View Grace Abbott: Protecting America’s ChildrenRead more Quick View Quick View Growing up Czech in NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View Harvesting Foods and Medicines in the Dakota TraditionRead more Quick View Quick View Heart’s Compass: Women on the TrailsRead more Quick View Quick View Heroism on the Plains: Story Songs of Courage and Determination from Improbable People and PlacesRead more Quick View Quick View Historical Stories of Omaha’s Parks, Boulevards, Brick Streets and StreetcarsRead more Quick View Quick View History of the Nebraska State CapitolRead more Quick View Quick View History of the Nebraska State FairRead more Quick View Quick View History of the University of NebraskaRead more Quick View Quick View History of Trick Roping and Wild West ShowsRead more Quick View Quick View How Chocolate Twice Conquered the American Continent: A Deliciously Historical PerspectiveRead more Quick View Quick View How Did Our Election Campaigns Get This Way?Read more Quick View Quick View I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for JusticeRead more Quick View Quick View I Got the Blues, and I Can’t Be SatisfiedRead more Quick View Quick View In Their Own Image: The Hidden History of African Americans in OmahaRead more Quick View Quick View Introduction to Nebraska AuthorsRead more Quick View Quick View Irish in Nebraska, 1850 to 2000Read more Quick View Quick View Irish in Omaha: 1854-2004Read more Quick View Quick View Irish Odyssey: Where the Irish Came FromRead more Quick View Quick View Jews in Medieval and Reniassance England: Realities and RepresentationsRead more Quick View Quick View Joan of Arc: Saint, Witch, Madwoman, Hero?Read more Quick View Quick View John A. Creighton: Blazing the First InternetRead more Quick View Quick View Journey to Freedom: The Escape of Celia and Eliza GraysonRead more Quick View Quick View Keith Blackledge and the North Platte Telegraph: His Town and OursRead more Quick View Quick View KIND Nebraskans: Personal Stories of Nebraskans in World War IIRead more Quick View Quick View Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919Read more End of content No more pages to load Older Posts →