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Summer 2009 Vol. 90, No. 2: $7.00
(members, $6.30)
Collecting Parks - Jill Koelling
A Lincoln couple's photographs and travel diaries are an important source documenting early travel to America's national parks.
The National Game at Cody - John Curtis Jenkins, with introduction and afterword by John E. Carter
Did a legendary Sandhills baseball game between the Spade and Diamond Bar ranches really take place in 1890? It turns out that a hilarious 1916 account of the game was based on real people and real events with some improvements.
Growing Celery in the Platte Valley - Patricia C. Gaster
A brief look at a forgotten experiment in Nebraska agriculture.
"Striving for Equal Rights for All": Woman Suffrage in Nebraska 1855-1882 - Kristin Mapel Bloomberg
For years, suffrage leaders such as Susan B. Anthony saw Nebraska as the nation's best hope to grant women the right to vote, but an 1882 statewide election caused the movement to rethink its national strategy.
Spring 2009 Vol. 90, No. 1: $7.00
(members, $6.30)
"Out here among the infernal Red skins":
Frank Appleton's 1874 Letter from Red Cloud AgencyFrank Appleton was a young man in the wrong place at the wrong time-he just didn't know it yet.
Social Transformation and the Farmers' Alliance Experience:
Populism in Saunders County, Nebraska - John A. SautterDrought and depression led to radical politics in 1890s Nebraska. Saunders County didn't fit the typical profile, but became a Populist stronghold thanks to its robust Farmer's Alliance culture.
The Missouri National Recreational River:
An Unlikely Alliance of Landowners and Conservationists - Daniel D. SpegelIn 1978 lawmakers hailed a fragile alliance of landowners and conservationists who sought to protect a rare "natural" stretch of the Missouri River. The result was not what they expected.
The Clay County Pig Club Song, 1922
Club members sang the praises of modern hog farming practices.
Looking for "Wide-Awake" Young People:
Commercial Business Colleges in Nebraska, 1873-1950 - Oliver B. PollakHigh schools taught no office skills. Colleges taught the classics. By the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurs founded business colleges as an alternative to both.
Winter
2008 Vol. 89, No. 4: $7.00 (members,
$6.30)
Grasshoppered: America's Response to the 1874 Rocky Mountain Locust Invasion - Alexandra M. Wagner
It was a plague of biblical proportions, influencing generations of federal agricultural policy and foreshadowing today's expectations about the government's role during natural disasters.
A 1914 Cartoon Calendar: Drawings by Guy R. Spencer - Patricia C. Gaster
Longtime Omaha World-Herald cartoonist Guy Spencer displayed his wit and his unique style of drawing in a series of cartoons for every month of the year.
The Empire Builders: An African American Odyssey in Nebraska and Wyoming - Todd Guenther
In the early twentieth century, a small group of black settlers set out for the Nebraska-Wyoming border. Since whites wouldn't treat them as equals, they would build their own community.
Fall 2008 Vol. 89, No. 3: $7.00
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The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain - Vicki Howard
Downtown department stores, such as Lincoln's Rudge & Guenzel, seemed to be from another, more authentic world that has little in common with today's commercial spaces-the big-box stores or enclosed suburban shopping malls.
More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals and Community-Building in Rural Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Nathan B. Sanderson
Shared meals were the cornerstone of events and celebrations in Nebraska's early years, offering rural families a chance to gather, socialize, and escape the lonely drudgery that filled much of their lives.
The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage's Visual Narrative - John E. Carter
In 1866 Charles Savage made the earliest known photograph of Chimney Rock and several other rare images, providing a unique visual record of one of the last years of wagon travel along Nebraska's Great Platte River Road.
Summer
2008 Vol. 89, No. 2: $7.00 (members,
$6.30)
The Mythical Platte River Voyage of the Steamboat El Paso - William E. Lass
Some researchers accepted the tale of the steamboat El Paso's 1852 voyage up the Platte River to Wyoming as being "authentic history." While the El Paso was a real steamboat, her alleged Platte River trip was a myth.
"Service not Power": The Early Years of the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1971-1975 - Roger P. Davis
The Nebraska Mexican-American Commission, established by the legislature in 1972, was the first such commission in the United States. Its challenge was to find the best way to represent a constituency divided over concepts of identity and strategies for action.
A Fallen Victim to "the Liquor Curse": The Life and Tragic Death of Samuel D. Cox - Patricia C. Gaster
The 1906 murder of a well-known newspaperman and temperance advocate sparked public indignation, and may have been a factor in the subsequent adoption of restrictions on saloons and alcohol consumption in Nebraska.
Spring, 2008 Vol. 89, No. 1: $7.00
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The Halls of Hallmark: The Nebraska Years - L. Robert Puschendorf
The Hall brothers' formative years in Nebraska, and those of the youngest brother, Joyce Hall, became the inspiration that brought him success as the founder of Hallmark Cards, Inc., the world's foremost supplier of greeting cards.
From the Depths: Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1930-1960 - Dennis N. Mihelich
Nebraska's Prince Hall Mason Grand Lodge barely survived the Great Depression of the 1930s, but recovered its vitality by the 1950s to regain its prestigious position within the state's African American community.
The Governor's House, the People's House: Nebraska Governors' Residences - James E. Potter
The idea that Nebraska should provide living quarters for its governors was slow to catch on. Finally, in 1899 the state purchased a house that became the first of two official residences in which Nebraska governors have lived.
Winter
2007 Vol. 88, No. 4: $7.00 (members,
$6.30)
Who Are We? Race and Ethnicity in a 1950s Nebraska Town - Deborah Fink
"Our seventh grade reading teacher did not have to worry about the Paul Bunyan story bothering her Negro students, there being no Blacks in the town of Albion or even Boone County at the time."
John M. "The Reverend Colonel" "Marry-Your-Daughter" "Sand Creek Massacre" Chivington - Lori Cox-Paul
Col. John M. Chivington is well-known-and often reviled-for his role in the bloody 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. Less widely known are the sordid and scandalous details of his personal life.
The Long View: Reading a Photograph
Four historians and a photographer "read" two photographs-a panoramic from Garden County taken in 1917 and a modern-day equivalent.
Fall,
2007 Vol. 88, No. 3: $7.00 (members,
$6.30)
Nebraska Women Artists, 1880-1950 - Sharon L. Kennedy
Highly talented, quietly indomitable, but still largely overlooked in the history of art in Nebraska, twelve nineteenth and early twentieth century women left an enduring artistic legacy and greatly influenced the arts in this young prairie state.
Spring,
Summer 2007 Vol. 88, Nos. 1 & 2: SOLD OUT!
Capturing the Lakota Spirit - Ephriam D. Dickson III
In the late nineteenth century the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian Agencies in northwestern Nebraska were distant, remote, and inhabited by exotic people -- exactly what some photographers were looking for.
A Ballad on Nebraska Fuel - R. W. L.
. . .the time-honored cow chips, the homesteader's cow chips, the fume-giving cow chips that drop to the ground. . .
Bad Grammar and Sensation Style - Patricia C. Gaster
A wet Nebraska or a dry one? These days it's a question of weather, but in 1890 it was whether or not to permit the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The Omaha Bumble Bee was emphatically dry.
Tools of Ethnic Edentity - Raymond Screws
The "melting pot" view of American society may hold some truth, but settlements of Czechs and Swedes established in Saunders County, Nebraska, between 1870 and 1910 were surprisingly slow to melt.
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