Nebraska History Table of Contents, 1918 to Present. Below Are Links to Recent Article Excerpts, and to Full-Text Pdfs of Many Other Articles
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Nebraska History Table of Contents, 1918 to present. Below are links to recent article excerpts, and to full-text PDFs of many other articles. More are being added all the time, and eventually this table will extend back to 1885. Use the “Find” window to search for specific words (press Ctrl-F if you don’t see it). Nebraska History home. Nebraska State Historical Society home. First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Daniel D Spegel Author "Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings": The Omaha city leaders touted the Jobbers NH 93 02 2012 054 083 Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon Canyon warehouse district as a key to downtown redevelopment, before EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE ConAgra decided it wanted the land. Thus ensued the largest-ever demolition of a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places Nick Batter Author Shoulders of Atlas (The): Rural Base construction for America's first NH 93 02 2012 084 101 Communities and Nuclear Missile intercontinental ballistic missile, the Base Construction in Nebraska, 1958- atlas, pushed several rural Nebraska 1962 communities to the front lines of the Cold War, bringing needed jobs, but EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE also drawing protestors c contesting the nuclear program. Deb Arenz Author Illustrator's Pencil (The): John Falter Born in Plattsmouth and raised in NH 93 01 2012 002 027 from Nebraska to the Saturday Falls City, John Falter became one of Evening Post the nation's most successful illustrators because he knew how to EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE capture the spirit of the times. His illustrations for ads, articles, and magazine covers provide a window into mid-twentieth century American culture. Chris Rasmussen Author Vox Populi of Omaha: Todd Storz and Omaha radio station owner Todd NH 93 01 2012 028 045 the Top 40 Radio Format in American Storz played a key role in pioneering Culture the Top 40 format in the 1950s. He was a figure of national significance, EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE permanently changing radio programming with an approach that was "vibrantly populist, crassly commercial, and undeniably young." Mark Smith Author Early Years of Talk Radio (The): Political talk dominates the AM NH 92 01 2011 002 013 Larry Walklin Author WJAG, Norfolk, Nebraska airwaves today, but in 1946 and 1947, EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Norfolk station WJAG found its broadcast license in jeopardy due to controversial on-air commentary. Jo L Behrens Author “Painting the Town”: How Merchants How does one build an art community NH 92 01 2011 014 039 Wetherilt Marked the Visual Arts to Nineteenth- in a frontier town? As Omaha grew, Century Omahans local merchants used their wealth and EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE influence to promote art appreciation and the concept of art patronage. First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page David Royce Murphy Author Art of the Panorama (The) Panoramic art came to Omaha in the NH 92 01 2011 040 041 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE 1880s, but it had earlier connections to Nebraska and the Great Plains Thomas Irvin Author Political and Journalistic Battles to Though Senator George Norris was NH 92 01 2011 042 049 Create Nebraska’s Unicameral the unicameral’s best-known Legislature (The) promoter, he had important allies EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE during the campaign of 1934 David Kruger Author Main Street Empire: J C Penney in By the late 1920s J C Penney had NH 92 02 2011 054 069 Delbert Nebraska stores in more than fifty Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE communities – more than any retailer before or since. Martha H Fitzgerald Author Courtship of Two Doctors: 1930s Joe Holoubek and Alice Baker trained NH 92 02 2011 070 077 Letters Spotlight Nebraska Medical in Omaha and New Orleans. Their Training correspondence reveals the risks and EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE day-to-day triumphs of 1930s medicine. Postcards from Long Pine Picture postcards from Nebraska’s NH 92 02 2011 078 081 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Hidden Paradise provide glimpses of recreational travel in the 1910s and 1920s. Rebecca A Buller Author Intersections of Place, Time, and Hidden Paradise, located in a forested NH 92 02 2011 082 095 Entertainment in Nebraska’s Hidden canyon at Long Pine, drew travelers Paradise by rail and automobile to enjoy a EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE mixture of outdoor recreation and live entertainment in the early-to-mid twentieth century. Jesse J Otto Author Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Dan Desdunes lived a remarkable life NH 92 03 2011 106 117 Rights Activist and “The Father of as a bandleader, educator, and civil Negro Musicians of Omaha” rights activist. In his native New EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Orleans, he played a key role in an unsuccessful legal challenge to railway segregation that led to the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision. In Omaha, he became a successful bandleader who also volunteered at Father Flanagan's Boys Home, where he trained the boys for fundraising musical tours. 2 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Patricia C Gaster Author Nebraska Statesman (The): The An iconic Solomon Butcher NH 92 03 2011 118 123 People Behind the Picture photograph portrays a frontier EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE newspaper office in Broken Bow. But the story of the two men who founded the short-lived paper has not been told until now. They came to central Nebraska full of ambition, but their lives soon went in very different directions. David R Christensen Author “I Don’t Know What We’d Have A labor shortage during World War I NH 92 03 2011 124 147 Done Without the Indians”: Non- left western Nebraska potato farmers Indian and Lakota Racial facing the loss of their crop. They Relationships in Box Butte County’s brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as Potato Industry, 1917-1960 harvesters, beginning a tradition that EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE lasted from 1917 through the 1950s. The story is one both of prejudice and understanding, cooperation and conflict--and of long-lasting relationships forged by economic necessity. James E Potter Author Horses: The Army's Achilles' Heel in Civil War armies relied heavily on NH 92 04 2011 158 169 the Civil War Plains Campaigns of horses. Armies in the field equipped 1864-1865 with artillery, cavalry, and supply trains required one horse or mule, on EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE average, for every two men. Horses fit for service became scarce by the war's final years. Far from the major eastern battlefields, regiments such as the First Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry felt the brunt of the equine shortage. Kristin Mapel Author "How shall We Make Beatrice Grow!" For a young frontier town like NH 92 04 2011 170 183 Bloomberg Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Beatrice, a library wasn't just about Public Library Association in the books. It was also a means for 1870s propagating social values, and it created pathways for women to EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE exercise leadership in the community. The town's first privately funded library faced challenges of censorship, public indifference, and competition from an unexpected rival. 3 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Todd Guenther Author "The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand": In the racially charged atmosphere of NH 92 04 2011 184 193 Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle 1920s Omaha, Russel Taylor-a for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha minister, teacher, musician, activist, and former homesteader-threw EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE himself into the struggle for dignity and civil rights. His story illustrates some of the difficulties facing black leaders during the generations between the end of slavery and the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. John D McDermott Author Plains Forts (The): A Harsh The United States Army had an NH 91 01 2010 002 015 Environment almost impossible task to perform EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE during the last half of the nineteenth century. Fewer than 15,000 men guarded some 3,000 miles of frontier and an equal length of seacoast. August Scherneckau Editor Soldiering in the Platte Valley, 1865: After serving in Missouri and NH 91 01 2010 016 051 James E Potter Editor A Nebraska Cavalryman’s Diary Arkansas in the Civil War, the First Edith Robbins Editor EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry was Edith Robbins Translator transferred to the Platte Valley to guard the transcontinental telegraph line and overland stagecoach stations. Pvt August Scherneckau’s diary tells of duty marked by exhausting riding, billowing dust, tormenting insects, chilling winds, numbing boredom, and an occasional dash after Indians. David L Bristow Author Post Script: Taking the Census 100 NH 91 01 2010 052 052 Years Ago Thomas R Buecker Author Letters from Home: Prisoner of War A 1943 envelope illustrates the long NH 91 02 2010 058 065 Mail at the Fort Robinson Camp and complicated process of sending during World War II and receiving mail between Nazi Germany and the Fort Prisoner of War EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Camp in Nebraska. Patricia C Gaster Author Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner NH 91 02 2010 066 079 and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Paul L Hedren Author Camp Sheridan, Nebraska: The Camp Robinson and Camp Sheridan, NH 91 02 2010 080 093 Uncommonly Quiet Post on Beaver both founded in 1874, had much in 4 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Creek common.