Apr 27, 2017 01:45PM ● By Max Sparber
I have a little pinback button with a red flag emblazoned with the words “Safety First.” It was produced in 1915 by the Nebraska Safety Leag...
Apr 27, 2017 01:37PM ● By Joyce Winfield, Ph.D.
When I first saw him, I had no plans to write a book about Nebraska’s World War II veterans. It was just a few days after Veterans Day in No...
Apr 25, 2017 04:09PM ● By Doug Meigs
As a kid, my grandfather’s World War II experiences were the stuff of legend. Army private first-class Robert Wesley Meigs fought in the Bat...
Apr 25, 2017 04:02PM ● By Doug Meigs
The following interview presents my grandfather’s recollections of World War II. A transcript of the interview, conducted in May 2005, is c...
Apr 16, 2017 12:33PM ● By Robert Klein Engler
Sometime around 1904, when Omaha Bishop Richard Scannell visited Europe to invite young men to serve as priests among the German-American me...
Mar 04, 2017 03:38PM ● By Daisy Hutzell-Rodman
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody officially started Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in May 1883 in Omaha. It was a natural place to start what w...
Mar 03, 2017 04:10PM ● By Garrett Sass
As technology has advanced and the role of horses has changed, the animals still remain an important component in the U.S. economy. Horses a...
Mar 03, 2017 11:56AM ● By Marisa Miakonda Cummings
The city of Omaha is named after the Umonhon people. The state of Nebraska is also an Umonhon word, NiBlaSka, or “Land of the Flat Waters.” ...
Mar 02, 2017 03:48PM ● By Max Sparber
There are not as many horses around the city of Omaha as there used to be. You still see a few now and then, mostly downtown, generally bein...
Mar 02, 2017 12:53PM ● By Anthony Flott
When Mayor Jean Stothert faces Nebraska State Senator Heath Mello and any other challengers in the upcoming mayoral election, no one is expe...
Mar 01, 2017 03:56PM ● By Max Sparber
After Omaha’s territorial years, its favorite animal became both a local resource and a local problem. The early years of Omaha were a golde...
Feb 21, 2017 03:10PM ● By Kara Schweiss
Running for the office of Omaha mayor seems surprisingly accessible for any registered voter age 25 or older who is an Omaha resident of six...
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