A Tale of Woe, Divorce in 1900 - strident Pries divorce suit in Omaha (December 2007)
Abbott, Edith and Grace (April 1999)
Abbott, Othman A. (February 1999)
Accidents along the Trail - shootings, drownings, and other occurrences on the Overland Trail (November 2006)
Adams County's Michigan Colony (February 2008)
Agricultural Prospects - letters to the Nebraska Farmer, 1859 (February 2006)
Agricultural Trains - Burlington's Purebred Dairy Sires Special, 1924, and Profitable Pork Special, 1929
Air Brakes - in railroad cars (February 2000)
Airmail - to and from Omaha, 1920 (March 1997)
Alexander, Hartley Burr - poet, philosopher, anthropologist (January 1998)
Alternative Crops (September 2003)
Alternative Fuels (August 1999)
Annin, William E. (January 2005)
Anthony, Susan B., in Grand Island - Othman Abbott and his wife work for 1882 suffrage amendment (February 2003)
Anti-smoking Law of 1905 (January 2006)
Arbor Day (April 2001)
Arbor Day at Crete, 1896 (April 2004)
Arbor Day Origins (April 1998)
Arboreal Bureau - J. Sterling Morton's 1886 proposal that the State Historical Society establish a bureau to compile the history of all Nebraska orchards.
Army Laundresses (August 2003)
Art in Nebraska (October 2004)
Artificial Stone - concrete (September 2001)
Ash Hollow (December 2002)
Ashby, William H. lawyer, civil servant, newspaperman, and land speculator (June 2006)
Astaire, Fred (March 1999)
Aughey, Samuel - methods for fighting grasshoppers, 1877 (March 2006)
Automobile Camp at Elmwood Park - Omaha tourist camp in 1926 (April 2007)
Automobile Culture (July 2003)
Automobile Thieves (September 2003)
Balloon Ascension at Cushman Park, 1890 (July 2004)
Band Music - at Nebraska State Fair, 1888 (August 1998)
Banking in Nebraska Territory (September 2002)
Barbour, Erwin H. - geologist and paleontologist (May 1997)
Barzynski, John (March 2003)
Baseball (May 2000)
Baseball at Cushman Park, 1889 (June 2003)
Baseball at North Bend - Cedar Bluffs vs. North Bend, 1895 (July 1997)
Baseball in Early Lincoln - Edward Manley's memories of (September 2002)
Baseball in Lincoln, 1894 (May 1999)
Baseball in Nebraska City, 1870 (March 2005)
Baseball, Ruth vs Gehrig - in Omaha, 1927(1997)
Bauer, Harold W. - Medal of Honor winner during WWII (September 1996)
Beals, Samuel DeWitt (February 2002)
Beauty Hints (July 2003)
Beauty Hints for the Honeymoon
Bennet, H. P. - early Nebraska legislator (December 1996)
Bentley for President, 1896 (July 1996)
Bergstrom, Olof (January 2001)
Bernhardt, Sarah, in Omaha (August 2003)
Bessey, Charles E. - UNL professor of botany and horticulture voted into Nebraska Hall of Fame in 2007.
Bicycle Corps - 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps, 1897 (May 1998)
Bicycle Racing - Grand Island (November 2002)
Bicycles (July 2002)
Bird Day - never an official state holiday but supported by the Omaha World-Herald in 1899 (May 2006)
Bittenbender, Ada C. - leader in woman suffrage, temperance movements (February 1997)
Bixby on Football - columnist defends football, 1901 (September 1997)
Blizzard of 1888 (January 2001)
Blizzard of 1888 - by Frank Carney (January 2002)
Blizzards (February 1999)
Blue Rivers - Nebraska City News's praise of Blue River region in 1862 (September 2005)
Bly, Nellie - her visit to Nebraska in 1895 (April 1997)
Bobbitt and the Grange - Theodore N. Bobbitt's reminiscences in 1922
Bookwalter, a Model Farm Community - in Pawnee County, 1891 (December 2007)
Boyd, James E. (January 2000)
Brainerd, Henry A. - unofficial press historian of Nebraska (July 2007)
Brandy Substitutes - The Anti-Saloon League offered alternatives to alcohol in 1907. (August 2006)
Brickyards - description of Schmidt Kirschke and Company of Grand Island, 1893 (March 2007)
Brownville, 1859 (February 2004)
Bryan and the Japanese - Bryan and visiting Japanese trade delegation in 1909 (August 2007)
Bryan County (May 1996)
Bryan for President, 1896 (March 1996)
Bryan in Florida (September 2003)
Bryan in Florida - WJB's last home (December 1998)
Bryan's Letter to Mary Baird (June 2001)
Buffalo (June 1999)
Buffalo and Cow Chips - poetry from Trenton Register, Dec. 28, 1894 (September 2007)
Buffalo at Sidney, 1872 (February 1997)
Buffalo Bill in North Platte - Cody's return to his hometown in 1893 (May 2006)
Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel - Builders from Lincoln erected this Cody, Wyoming, hotel, named for Buffalo Bill's daughter, in 1902. (February 2007)
Buffalo Bill's Wild West, 1883 (March 1997)
Buffalo Hunt, 1871 - in the Republican Valley (November 1996)
Buffalo Hunt at Niagara Falls (October 2005)
Buffalo Hunt, by J. E. Johnson - 1860 hunt along Loup River (July 2006)
Buffalo Hunt, by Rolf Johnson (September 2000)
Buffalo, Protection for (October 2003)
Buffalo Soldiers West - NSHS exhibit (January 1997)
Bull Fight, The
Bungalow Filling Stations - Standard Oil of Nebraska's drive-in filling stations (September 2006)
Burman, Ellis - sculptor (November 1996)
Burning of State Asylum - fire at Nebraska Asylum for the Insane in 1871 (May 2007)
Burns, Robert - celebration of his birthday in Nebraska (January 2006)
Burns, Robert - his birthday noted in Omaha Bee, Jan. 26, 1876 (January 2007)
Burrows, Maud Marston - her interview of Nellie Bly, 1897 (May 1997)
Burt, Francis (January 2001)
Butcher, Solomon D. (August 2002)
Byers, William N. (December 2003)
Calvert, Thomas E. and the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
Camp Clarke Bridge - built by Henry T. Clarke (September 1998)
Camping Vacation - by J. D. Calhoun (June 1999)
Capital Removal - from Omaha to Lincoln, 1867 (March 1998)
Capitol (First) of Nebraska (April 1998)
Capitol (Second) of Nebraska (August 2005)
Cartooning Rosewater - Victor Rosewater described in 1918 how it felt to be caricatured. (February 2007)
Cass County Fair, 1861 - "Female Equestrianism" was the highlight of the event, according to the Nebraska Farmer in November 1861. (August 2008)
Catfish (December 1999)
Cather, Willa (January 1999)
Cather, Willa - as Nebraska State Journal staff member (September 1998)
Cattle Drives (December 1999)
Celery - niche crop in the Kearney area, 1901 (May 2007)
Census (April 2004)
Census of 1890 (August 2005)
Census of 1900 (January 1998)
Centoria, the State - an 1890 proposal to create a new state from the western half of Nebraska (September 2006)
Chautauqua in Scottsbluff - The North Platte Valley Chautauqua in 1908 offered "a complete, magnificent and varied entertainment."
Cherry Creek Gold (April 2004)
Chickens - by J. D. Calhoun (June 2002)
Cholera (April 2000)
Christmas (December 2000)
Christmas at Creighton, 1876 (December 2001)
Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1880 (November 1997)
Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882 (December 1997)
Christmas for a Nebraska Soldier - in the Philippines, 1898 (December 1998)
Christmas on a Sherman County Homestead, 1884 (December 1997)
Christmas Parade, 1893 - Santa Claus leads procession to Hayden Brothers store in Omaha (December 2007)
Christmas Postal Rush (December 2002)
Christmas Shopping Season - increasing length of the holiday shopping season noted in 1907 (December 2006)
Christmas with the Cumings - in Omaha, 1854 (November 1998)
Churning Butter - butter making in Nebraska during the early 1900s (December 2006)
'Chutist, The
Cigar Making (May 2001)
Cigar Making in Grand Island (September 2003)
Circus Wedding - marriage of two circus performers in Seward in 1883 (August 2006)
Civilian Conservation Corps (March 2000)
Clarke, Henry T. (September 2001)
Class of '73, The
Coal in Nebraska (November 2003)
Coal Thieves (January 2002)
Cody vs. Carver (October 2004)
Coggia's Comet (July 2004)
Colonels in Nebraska (January 2001)
Comic Valentines (February 2006)
Commencement at Omaha Medical College (May 2004)
Commencement at Nemaha High School (May 2001)
Commencement - praise of 1889 graduates (May 1998)
Commencement Traditions Change - Omaha High School's High School Register in October 1901 disapproved of having a single commencement speaker replace traditional student "orations."
Confederate Corn - from Jefferson Davis to Robert Furnas (June 1998)
Cook's Cattle Drive North, 1876 (September 2001)
Corn Bread Day (June 2000)
Corn Contest - state
Corn Contest, 1905 (June 1996)
Corn Husking - by J. D. Calhoun (July 2001)
Cost of Living (July 2002)
Cost of Living, 1874 - Beatrice (March 2005)
County and State Fairs - C. L. Brainard's memories (July 2001)
Covington, Columbus and Black Hills Railroad (May 2002)
Council with the Otoes, 1844 (February 1997)
Cowboys (April 1999)
Cox, Samuel D. - newspaper and temperance career (December 1997)
Crawford - William E. Annin's description of (September 2004)
Crawford, Emmet - town of Crawford named for (May 1996)
Creighton, Edward A. (March 1999)
Crime - W. C. Brown, bad check writer (February 2003)
Crime along the Overland Trail (January 2004)
Crime on Streetcars (January 2003)
Cruelty to Men - summer uniform of Omaha police in 1897 (July 2007)
Cudahy Kidnapping (December 2000)
Cuming City (August 2004)
Dairy Sires Special (September 1999)
Dake, Orsamus C. (November 2003)
Dance Craze - fox trot, bunny hug, and other so-called animal dances of the early 1900s (May 2007)
Dangerous 4th, The
Dangerous Dollars - movie (December 2005)
Dannevirke - early Danish settlement in Howard County (August 1996)
Darwin Diary (January 2005)
Davis, Dr. Byron B. (January 2000)
Dawson, John L. (August 2005)
Death in a Well - Seward County, 1877 (December 1996)
Defending the Cancan - The Omaha Bee defended public performances of a "risqué" dance in 1875. (September 2006)
Diamond Dick Tanner ( August 2004)
Dividing the Land - surveying in Nebraska (September 1997)
Dodge-McGuire Murder Case ( April 2003 )
Double Holiday, The
Dowsing for Water ( October 2004 )
Drought in Buffalo County - description by B. S. Gitchel, 1894 (July 1997)
Drought Relief by the GAR ( March 2002)
Dugout Construction ( October 2003 )
Dundass Overland Trail Diary ( May 2000)
Duren, Terence - artist (July 1997)
Earthquakes (August 1998)
Easter Blizzard, The
Earthquake in Lincoln, 1877 (July 2003)
Eaton Brothers - Webster and O. V. Eaton operated the Lincoln Pottery Works from 1881 to 1901. (July 2008)
Edgerton, Harold (August 1999)
Effect of Motion Pictures, The
Egan Letter (June 2001)
Egan, Patrick - Irish patriot in Lincoln (March 1998)
Election for Nebraska Supreme Court Judge, 1891 (August 2000)
Election in Rock Bluff, 1866 (March 2000)
Election Trivia - youngest governor, first women legislators, and more (April 1996)
Elections in Nebraska, 1886 (July 2002)
Elopers Flee Lincoln, 1877 (February 2001)
Entertainment (January 1999)
Excursion to Lincoln, 1868 (March 2002)
Fair Charmer (March 2005)
Fairmont Foods (July 2006)
Farmer Invasion, The
Farmers' Excursion to Lincoln, 1875 (October 2000)
Farming Soldiers, The
Fashion and Golf, 1901 (July 1999)
Fashion Along the Overland Trail (February 2000)
Films from Nebraska at St. Louis World's Fair (May 2003)
Finch, John B. (January 2002)
Fire Fighting, 1878 (March 2003)
First Nebraska Regiment - in Spanish American War (August 2007)
First Territorial Capitol - Built by an Omaha ferry company, the building "was a neat and substantial one, but altogether too small for the purpose intended." (September 2008)
Fish in Nebraska - state fish culture in 1877 (April 2006)
Fishing Tale (April 2002)
Fitchie, Samuel D. (August 2002)
Flies and Livery Stables - unsanitary conditions in downtown Lincoln stables in 1907 (August 2006)
Florence (January 1999)
Flour Mills - at Fort Atkinson, Winter Quarters (November 1998)
Flu Epidemic, 1918 (November 1999)
Folklore in Nebraska - Rawhide Creek fable (October 1998)
Food Along the Overland Trail (August 2000)
Football at the Omaha Medical College, 1900
Football at University of Nebraska, 1895
Football Bowl Games - opinions in 1938 (December 1998)
Football in 1893 (November 2004)
Football in Lincoln, 1892 (October 2000)
Football is Dangerous, according to Lincoln Call (November 2002)
Football is Dangerous, according to Nebraska State Journal (November 2001)
Football Spirit in Nebraska in 1902 - NU Coach W. C. "Bummy" Booth's team went 9-0 and was unscored upon. The resulting student enthusiasm reached far beyond the campus. (September 2008)
Footrace in Lincoln, 1877 (August 2003)
Football in Wilcox, 1904 (September 1996)
Ford and the 1976 Nebraska Primary (June 1996)
Ford in Fremont - Henry Ford visited the Fremont Tractor Show in 1916. (July 2008)
Forests in Nebraska - state forestry exhibit at World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (April 2006)
Fort Crook - description in 1896 (March 1998)
Fort Kearny - Sydenham's Memories (May 2003)
Fort Kearny in 1849 (April 2000)
Fort Kearny on the Missouri (July 2005)
Fort Kearny, 1860 (October 2002)
Fort Kearny, 1871 - call for preservation of its history (June 1997)
Fort Niobrara (February 2001)
Fort Robinson Hop (December 2002)
Fossil Discovery from 1860 - Robert W. Furnas's description of I. N. Kelly's find about 150 miles west of Brownville.
Fourth of July at Beaver City, 1897 (June 2003)
Fourth of July at Epworth Park - Independence Day in Lincoln in 1907 (June 2006)
Fourth of July at Pawnee City, 1872 (June 2004)
Fourth of July at Tecumseh, 1883 (June 2005)
Fourth of July Fireworks, 1887 (June 1999)
Fourth of July Hazards - warning from state fire commissioner, 1912 (June 1997)
Fourth of July in Dundy County, 1922 (June 2000)
Fourth of July in Knox County - Independence Day in Bazile Mills, Niobrara, and Walnut Grove in 1878 (June 2007)
Fourth of July in Southeast Nebraska, 1884 (June 2001)
Fourth of July - in Stuart, Newport, 1901 (June 1998)
Fremont Maps, The
French in Nemaha County (May 1998)
Frontier Editor - Mark J. Kelley, of The Little Blue, editorialized in 1870 on running a frontier newspaper. (November 2006)
Fuller Automobile (May 2001)
Funke Opera House (July 2000)
Fur Trade (November 1998)
Fur Trade - John Dougherty described the American Fur Company posts above Council Bluffs in 1831. (April 2007)
Furnas, Robert W. (January 2004)
Gere, Charles H. (November 2000)
Ghost in Prospect Hill Cemetery (October 2001)
Ghost Story (October 2005)
Gibson, George Howard (August 2001)
Gibson, Hoot (August 2005)
Gold Rush, 1858, by J. H. Presson - reminiscences of trip across Nebraska to Pike's Peak (July 2006)
Gold Rush, 1898 - Nebraskans who joined the rush (December 1998)
Gonne, Maud, in Omaha, 1900 (March 2003)
Good Roads - Letter writers to the Nebraska Farmer discussed road conditions in western Nebraska in 1916.
Governor's Mansion - first (May 2005)
Grasshoppers - A Letter from Carlton (November 2002)
Grasshoppers - Othman's Abbott's Description (September 1999)
Grasshoppers - Lawrence Bruner's Campaign Against (July 2003)
Grasshoppers, 1876 - "F.N.C." of Buffalo County described a visit by the pests to his farm. (March 2007)
Grasshoppers and Concussion - One 1877 theory of grasshopper destruction debunked in the pages of the Nebraska Farmer.
Great Race of 1908 - Omaha clothing companies competed to have the racers wear--and advertise--their gear.
Green, Guy W. (July 2005)
Griswold's Description of Corbett vs. Mitchell (January 2003)
Gubernatorial Race, In Nebraska, 1892 (October 2001)
Halley's Comet - viewed in Omaha, 1910 (June 1997)
Hallmark Cards - born in Norfolk (December 1997)
Halloween in Hickman, 1892 (October 2003)
Halloween in Omaha, 1909 (October 2004 )
Halloween, 1883 (October 1999)
Harden, Edward - judicial appointee in Nebraska Territory (January 1998)
Hardy, Harvey Wesley (August 2002)
Hartmann in Omaha - Leo Hartmann, anti-Czarist revolutionary, visited Council Bluffs and Omaha in 1881. (June 2006)
Harvey, Turlington (January 1999)
Hayes, Rutherford B. (February 2005 )
Heat wave (August 2004)
Hesse-Wartegg's Journey Across Nebraska (September 2000)
Highways, Named (February 2002)
Historical Marker - commemorating Bohemian immigrants drowned in flood in Red Willow County (November 1996)
Hoarding Hermits, The
Hollingworth, Leta (January 2002)
Holman, Charles, Aviator (May 1999)
Horner, Charles F. - Chautauqua organizer (January 1997)
Horse Heaven - One of a team of horses died in Omaha in 1875 and was mourned by the surviving animal as well as its owner. (July 2008)
Horse Railways (November 2000)
Horses Yield to Tractors - This gradual transition was well underway by 1916, when farmers debated the issue in the pages of the Nebraska Farmer.
Hot Lunch Plan, The
How Hot It Was! (July 2005)
How Times Change, Thoughts on Christmas in 1925 - Christmas in town of Friend (December 2007)
Howard, Edgar (January 2002)
Hunting Accidents (June 2003)
I-80 150 Years Old (August 1996)
Ice Cream Cones Seized - Federal food and drug inspectors impounded thousands of baked cones contaminated with boric acid in Omaha in 1910. (August 2008)
Ice Industry - cut from lakes and rivers (February 2001)
Ice Industry - the rise of mechanical refrigeration (August 1997)
Instant Town, The
Ionia Volcano (July 2004)
Irish in Lincoln, 1890 (March 2002)
"Iron Man" Sarg Cole - Cole, a Canadian stunt driver, survived five continuous days and nights of driving a car through Omaha streets in May of 1925. (July 2008)
Irrigation - State Irrigation Association meeting, 1894 (June 1997)
Jackson, William H., Artist and Photographer (November 1999)
Johnson, William E. (June 2000)
Junior Normal Schools (November 2001)
Jury Duty - poor conditions for sequestered jurors in Lincoln in 1893 (August 2007)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 2002)
Kearney and Black Hills Stage - Kearney as jumping-off point for Black Hills in 1877 (March 2006)
Kearney Cotton Mill (October 1998)
Kearney - spelling the name (March 1996)
Keep Up Your Fires! - 1874 admonition to homemakers (November 2005)
Keeley Cure - nineteenth-century "gold cure," chiefly for alcoholism (November 2005)
Kimball, Thomas Rogers (December 2000)
Kool-Aid (July 2002)
Kuska, Val (March 2001)
La Flesche Sisters (March 2001)
Labor Day Parade (September 2004)
Labor Day Parade, 1894 - in Omaha (September 2006)
Labor Day, 1907 (September 2005)
Labor Day, Objections to (August 2002)
Labor Unions - Omaha bakers' strike, 1900 (August 1997)
Landmarks on Paper - cachets used by Nebraska communities to commemorate National Airmail Week in 1938 (May 2006)
Latter-day Saints at Genoa (November 2000)
Lawn Party, The
Leap Year Customs (February 2004)
Leap Year Masquerade Ball (February 2008)
Lease, Mary Elizabeth, in Nebraska (February 2006)
Lemmon, J. H. - reminiscences of buffalo hunting along Little Blue River in 1860 (February 2007)
Lenger, John - musician and bandmaster (April 1997)
Lewis and Clark Expedition, Centennial Observances of (January 2004)
Lewis and Clark Expedition, Medicine for (September 1998)
Liberty Bell - Thousands saw America's Liberty Bell in 1915 as it was transported through Lincoln on its way to the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
Libraries - in Nebraska Territory (April 1998)
Lightning Rod Salesmen - in Nemaha County in the 1880s (May 2006)
Lightning Rods (April 2002)
Lilljeholm, John - expected dangers on the trail, 1849 (September 1997)
Lincoln City Council's Imprisonment - in Omaha, 1887 (June 1998)
Lincoln Lot Sales (October 2002)
Lincoln's Founding (April 2001)
Linotype (June 2005)
Liquor's Last Days - before state-wide prohibition in 1917 (July 1996)
Lives Risked for a Drink of Water
Lockwood, Belva, Visits Lincoln, 1885 (December 2001)
Love Letters, 1909 (February 2005)
Lowell, the History of a Boom Town (September 2004)
Lyden, Pierce - Nebraska-born cowboy actor (October 2007)
Man-powered Paddle Boats on the Missouri - under Gen. Henry Atkinson, 1824 (April 1996)
Maher, John G. (September 1999)
Matrimonial Event - Wealthy cattleman weds queen of the Omaha demimonde, 1890
May, Foster - in Nebraska radio and politics (April 1997)
McBride at Fort Kearny - J. C. McBride's description of the almost abandoned site in the May 1877 Nebraska Farmer.
Meat Inspection (March 2004)
Memorial Day Parade (May 2000)
Memorial Stadium (October 1999)
Metcalfe, Richard - his newspaper, business, and political career (January 1998)
Meteorites - including sighting of February 18, 1948 (July 1997)
Midland Pacific Railroad (April 2002)
Millard Hotel Fire (March 2000)
Miller, George L. (February 2000)
Miller, George L., Reminiscences in 1905 (September 2007)
Missionaries to Pawnee - Gottlieb Frederick Oehler and David Zeisberger Smith in 1851 (May 2007)
Missionaries to the Indians - Moses, John Dunbar, Samuel Allis, and others (May 1996)
Mitchell, D. S. - photographer of the Lakota (August 2007)
Mormon Summer Quarters - farming operations, 1847 (May 1997)
Morrow, Stanley J. - photographer of the Lakota (September 2007)
Morton and the Public Printer (June 2003)
Morton as Secretary of Agriculture (April 2001)
Morton, J. Sterling - by Kate Winslow Davis (April 1998)
Morton on Economy (October 2005)
Morton, Thomas (November 2003)
Morton's Buffalo Hunt (October 2002)
Morton's College Years (April 2000)
Morton's Praise of Corn (April 2003)
Morton's The Conservative (September 2004)
Mosher, C. W., and the Capital National Bank (April 2002)
Mother's Day in Nebraska in 1909 - Governor Ashton C. Shallenberger designated Sunday, May 9, as Mother's Day in Nebraska.
Motion Pictures (May 2005)
Moving the Court House - from Hemingford to Alliance on the Burlington in 1899 (July 2007)
Nation, Carry - in Omaha, 1901 (March 2001)
Nation, Carry - in Nebraska City, 1902 (March 1997)
National Air Mail Week - May 15-21, 1938, to celebrate twentieth anniversary of first airmail route (April 2006)
Nebraska Apples - at the U.S. centennial exposition in Philadelphia, 1877
Nebraska As It Was, As It Is, As It Will Be
Nebraska As It Was, Is, and Will Be, by J. Garside - from the first issue of Nebraska Farmer in 1859 (March 2006)
Nebraska City Directory, 1870 (March 2004)
Nebraska City Fire, 1860 (January 2004)
Nebraska City, 1866 (July 2001)
Nebraska City's Pontoon Bridge (January 2000)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (December 2000)
Nebraska Hall of Fame, Early Members (April 1996)
Nebraska Indians Baseball Team (June 2005)
Nebraska Legislature - memories of Nebraska's first territorial legislature (October 1998)
Nebraska National Forest (August 1999)
Nebraska Poet? - The Omaha Bee satirized Senator P. W. Hitchcock in 1874. (June 2007)
Nebraska Resources (February 2005)
Nebraska Territorial Fair Premiums (August 2003)
Nebraska Territorial Fair, 1859 (August 2000)
Nebraska Territory - A Trip into the Interior, 1858 (July 2004)
Nebraska Territory, by D. A. Chapman (December 2002)
Nebraska University (January 2003)
Nebraska's First Motion Picture
Nebraska's First Secretary of Agriculture
Neihardt and the Bancroft Blade (September 1996)
Neihardt Book Review (February 2003)
Neihardt, John G. (April 2003)
Neihardt, Mona (March 2002)
New Year's Balls at Alliance, 1903 (December 2001)
New Year's Calling Cards - used in Lincoln in 1890 (January 2007)
New Year's Calls by Joseph Barker (December 2003)
New Year's Calls, by Clement Chase (December 2004)
New Year's Holiday (December 1999)
New Year's Resolutions for 1907 - Tongue-in-cheek resolutions of Lincoln's leading business and professional men. (January 2008)
Newspaper Portraits - from the Nebraska State Journal, 1888 (May 1996)
Newspapers in Seward County - by William H. Smith (March 1997)
Nicknames for Nebraska -1 (March 2003)
Nicknames for Nebraska - 2 (December 2004)
'90 Census, The
Noise Pollution (April 2003)
Norris, George W. (October 2000)
North Platte Baseball - The North Platte Telegraph urged formation of a town baseball team in 1906.
Novel Flying Machine (December 2005)
Oblinger Letters (September 2002)
Omadi - ghost town (March 2004)
Omaha Bee Balloon (September 2005)
Omaha Clothing Factory in 1896 (February 2008)
Omaha Daily Union (December 2003)
Omaha in 1860 (May 2002)
Omaha in 1867 - description by de Trobriand (February 1998)
Omaha, Millard's Recollections of (September 2002)
Omaha-Fort Kearny Road (November 1999)
Omaha's Founding (June 2002)
Omaha's Prospects, 1857 (October 2002)
O'Neill, Gen. John (March 2000)
Opera Houses (August 2001)
Overland Coupe - marketing cars to women in 1924 (November 2006)
Overland Freighting by George Marvin (October 2001)
Overland Freighting by Herman Lyon (March 1999)
Overland Trail - abandonment of goods along (June 1998)
Paddock, Algernon S. (June 2005)
Paderewski in Lincoln, 1900 (May 2004)
Palmer on Freighting - Henry E. Palmer freighted to Pike's Peak in 1860 (June 2007)
Parachuting Accident (April 2005)
Parking Problems in the 1920s (May 2004)
Parks (July 2000)
Pawnee (October 1999)
Pawnee at Fort Atkinson, 1824 (May 1997)
Pawnee Foods (May 2004)
Paxson, Joseph - physician to the Winnebago (December 1996)
Paxton, William A. (September 1999)
Peace Ship - Henry Ford's diplomatic effort to end WWI (July 1996)
Peattie on Women Reporters - experiences of Elia Peattie, Omaha World-Herald reporter and writer, 1892(December 2006)
People's Party, The
Petroleum Boom in Richardson County (September 2000)
Pershing for President in 1920 - John J. Pershing's unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination (January 2008)
Phonograph (May 2005)
Pigs in Plattsmouth (April 2001)
Pioneer Cooking - 1 (April 1999)
Pioneer Cooking - 2 (January 2000)
Pioneer Lawyers (November 2004)
Pioneer Life - building a home (October 1998)
Pioneer Social Life (June 2002)
Pitch Pine Posts (January 1997)
Platte River Navigation (April 1996)
Political Rallies, According to Pyle
Populist Convention Reunion - proposed by A. E. Sheldon in 1941 to commemorate Omaha convention of 1892 (February 2007)
Porter, William F. (March 2001)
Postcards (February 2000)
Potato Train - "The first potato special probably ever seen in the United States" started from Harrison on February 28, 1905. (August 2008)
Pottery Making in Nebraska (March 2002)
Pound, Roscoe - legal scholar (February 1998)
Powell, Doane - artist (June 1996)
Powers, John H. - 1913 recollections of change in Nebraska agriculture (October 2006)
Prairie Fire, 1864 - A "line of fire a mile long, coming like a great wave, at times leaping fifty feet in the air" threatened the John S. Collins party crossing the Plains. (September 2008)
Prairie Fires (July 1999)
Prairie Fires, by Rolf Johnson (October 2000)
Prairie Stoves - using hay as fuel (June 1996)
Pratt, James H. - rancher, farmer, land speculator, freighter (April 2006)
Presley in Nebraska - Elvis visits Lincoln in 1956, 1977 (November 1997)
Prizefighting -- Not in Omaha! - A proposed prizefight at the Omaha Athletic Club in 1893 did not take place.
Prohibition Party Candidates in 1894 - A woman, Belle G. Bigelow, was nominated for lieutenant governor long before women could vote. E. A. Gerrard of Monroe ran for governor. (September 2008)
Public holidays - protest against in 1890 (April 2007)
Quesenbury, William M. - artist and overland traveler (March 1996)
Rabbit Drives - in western Nebraska during 1930s (August 1998)
Railroad Ecology - railroads' needs for water and fuel (August 1997)
Railroads and Immigration (August 2001)
Rainmakers (July 1999)
Relief in Nebraska, 1895 - Luther P. Ludden's report on State Relief Commission's efforts (October 2007)
Rhyming Recipe, The, - bread making
Ricker, Eli S. (January 2006)
Robbery at Brownville - by J. K. Baer, 1869 (November 1998)
Robidoux Pass (July 2005)
Roller Skating in Brownville, 1883 (April 2004)
Roller Skating in Lincoln, 1877 (May 2003)
Roosevelt, Theodore, Visits Nebraska, 1900 (May 2000)
Rosewater, Edward (September 2001)
Rosewater, Victor - Edward Rosewater's son Victor and his career on the Omaha Bee (January 2008)
Rosewater's Christmas (December 2005)
Ross Letter - James M. Ross described his Johnson County home in 1868. (October 2006)
Rothacker, O. H. - newspaperman (December 2005)
Rubel, Maud - racial divide reflected in an 1894 murder in Omaha (November 2005)
Ruth vs. Gehrig - in Omaha, 1927 (November 1997)
SAC Memorial - chapel at Offutt Air Force Base (August 1996)
Saloons, Billiard Halls - Fass Brothers in Nebraska City (December 2005)
Salt Creek Basin (November 2002)
Salutatory - A. M. Church and the Stuart Ledger (March 1996)
Sandhills, Hawley's Proposed Reclamation of (April 2005)
Santa Claus (December 2003)
Santa Fe Trail (October 1999)
Save Our Youth--Grow Watermelon
Save the Buffalo - plea by Nebraska State Journal, 1874 (December 1996)
Seeing the Elephant (January 2001)
Selfish Young Men - Empty pockets prevented some men in Lincoln from escorting women to social events in 1890. (December 2006)
Semicentennial - fiftieth anniversary of Nebraska statehood in 1917 (March 2006)
Sidney, 1877 (May 2002)
Silver Anniversary of Nebraska (March 2005)
Skinner, George B. (November 2001)
Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek (February 2006)
Skirting the Skirmishes - Indian scare in Lancaster Co., 1864 (September 1997)
Smallpox (December 1999)
Smokers on the Campus (August 2004)
Snake Folklore from Louise Pound (February 1999)
Snowbound (January 2005)
Society Fads and Fancies - social news coverage in Lincoln in 1892 (October 2006)
Society Page (May 2005)
Sod House Construction - by Rolf Johnson (July 1996)
Sorenson, Alfred (November 2001)
Sorenson, Grace - Omaha author, publisher, of children's literature (November 1996)
Southern State Line - first survey of southern boundary, 1854 (August 1997)
Spanish American War (June 2002)
Sparrows (February 2002)
Spearman, Frank H. - Nebraska-born author of railroad fiction (January 2007)
Squatter Governor's Inaugural Address, The
St. Patrick's Day Ball in Lincoln, 1878 (March 2001)
St. Patrick's Day, 1891 - The Irish-American holiday was celebrated with a parade and religious services in Lincoln.
Stage Ride, The
Stagecoaches (May 1999)
Stanley, Henry M. - newspaper career in Omaha (September 1996)
State Fair, 1870 (August 1999)
State Fair, 1874 (August 2001)
State Flag (October 2001)
Stout, W. H. B. (January 2005)
Straight, Henry Harrison, Educator (July 2000)
Street Railways in Lincoln (May 2002)
Strong, Anna Louise (July 2001)
Stunt Travelers - Nellie Bly, George Francis Train, and others (September 1998)
Sugar Palace (March 2004)
Sullivan, John L., in Lincoln (April 2005)
Summer Recreation - in Omaha, 1902 (August 1996)
Sunday Closing Laws (November 2001)
Swisher, William B. (October 2005)
Sydenham's Praise of Central Nebraska (February 2003)
Teachers - teaching as a female profession, 1903 (July 1998)
Telautograph - ancestor of the fax machine (October 1997)
Telegraph at Brownville (July 2000)
Territorial Towns (May 1998)
Texas Cattle Trade - the Omaha Bee's description of the industry in 1875 (October 2007)
Thanksgiving in Early 1890s (November 2003)
Thanksgiving in Lincoln, 1907 (November 2005)
Thanksgiving in Omaha, 1909 (November 2004)
Thayer, John M. (February 2004)
Titanic - Nebraska passengers (March 1998)
Tractors (February 2002)
Train, George Francis (February 2001)
Trans-Mississippi Exposition Centennial (July 1998)
Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Opening of (August 1998)
Trans-Mississippi Exposition Parade (July 1998)
Traveling Schoolhouses - schoolhouses on wheels in Sandhills (January 1997)
Trester's Travels - Lancaster County pioneer M. L. Trester described an 1869 journey from Elkhorn to Lincoln. (August 2008)
Trip on the Fast Mail - The Burlington's railway mail service in 1892 (August 2006)
Umland, Rudolph E. - and Federal Writers' Project (October 1997)
Union Pacific Railroad (September 2001)
University of Nebraska, 1878 (September 2005)
University of Nebraska - by Edward Manley (November 2000)
University of Nebraska - by H. W. Caldwell, 1889 (October 1997)
Valentines (February 1998)
Valentines from 1931 (February 1999)
Valentines, Comic (February 2004)
Vandervoort, Paul - founder of La Gloria, Cuban colony for Civil War veterans (November 2006)
Vifquain, Victor (April 2005)
Vifquain's Buffalo Hunt (May 2003)
Visit to the Penitentiary in 1875 - An Omaha Bee reporter toured the State Penitentiary in 1875. (January 2008)
W.C.T.U.'s Crusade Against Drugs (January 2003)
Wakeley, Eleazer (May 2000)
Walker, Dr. Mary - visit of Civil War physician to Omaha in 1875 (January 2007)
Water Shortage - dry times in Grand Island in 1893 (June 2006)
Watson, H. D., and the Watson Ranch (May 2001)
Wedding Customs (June 2004)
Wedding in Photography Studio (June 2000)
Wedding of Mollie Dorsey Sanford (June 1999)
Weddings in Seward County (June 2001)
Well Digging, by F. J. Coil (May 2001)
Well Digging, by Henry Sands (March 1999
What Are Legitimate Features of the Fair?
When It Absolutely Had to be There Overnight
White Buffalo Girl - grave at Neligh (July 1998)
Whitcomb, Edward A. - apiarist, newspaperman of Friend (March 2007)
Whitmore, Howard J. (December 2001)
Wild West of 1902 - Buffalo Bill's show included more than Western acts. (September 2007)
Wild, Wild West, The
Wildcat Banks (October 1997)
Wind Wagon of the 1890s - trip from Lamar to Venango by wind power (October 2006)
Windmills (June 2004)
Winter - of 1856-57 in Nebraska Territory (February 1998)
Winter Travel - by Joseph E. Johnson (January 2006)
Wolfe, Emanuel, Photographer (April 1999)
Wolfenbarger, Andrew G. (July 2002)
Woman Suffrage (January 2000)
Woman Suffrage - failure of woman suffrage amendment to state constitution in 1881-82 (July 2006)
Women Artists of Nebraska (February 2008)
Women Homesteaders - in Grant Co., 1912-13 (April 1997)
Women in Barbershops - By 1926 the barbershop was no longer a male domain. (July 2007)
Women in Institutional Management - The University of Nebraska organized institutional management courses for women in 1907.
Women in Trousers - new costume for "typewriters" in 1891 (October 2007)
Women Workers, 1916 (November 1997)
World War I - Sugar Shortage (June 2004)
World War II - Airplane Mechanic School in Lincoln (March 2000)
World War II - Aviation Hangars (April 2000)
World War II - Crop Corps (July 2000)
World War II - Elmer Houk Letter (November 2004)
World War II - Omaha Citizens' Defense Corps (July 2001)
World War II - Victory Gardens (September 2000)
World's Columbian Exposition - Nebraska Day (February 2005)
World's Columbian Exposition - The Nebraska Building (August 2000)
World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition (November 2000)
Worrall, Thomas (December 2004)
Young, Whitney, Jr. - civil rights leader (February 1997)
Younger, Cole (July 1999)
Zanuck, Darryl F. - movie mogul (April 2007)
Ziegfeld Girls - Omaha men discussed "Flo" Ziegfeld's description of the model woman for 1926 (March 2007)
