May 29, 2012 - 3:19 pm
Homestead National Monument of America on Flickr.
The first claim under the Homestead Act of 1862.
May 22, 2012 - 4:58 pm
Jim Meis uses his “smokin’ money” for tangible reminders of the way things used to be. His collection of bells, from one-room school houses to funerals to farm dinner bells, is on display next to Highway 14 in Elgin, Nebraska.
Learn more in today’s Signature Story from NET News.
May 7, 2012 - 1:41 pm
Got a shiny quarter today… Flipped it over and this is what I found… :( #omaha #nebraska #home (Taken with instagram)
Apr 24, 2012 - 1:40 pm
Overland Greyhound Bus Depot - Omaha, Nebraska
One of the newest and most modern bus depots in the midwest, “at the crossroads of the Nation”, Omaha, Nebraska.
A vintage postcard
Apr 21, 2012 - 12:02 pm
“Buffalo Bill Cody, North Platte NE.” Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM + Kodak Portra NC 400 120 film.
Apr 21, 2012 - 8:02 am
Family grave in Estelle on Flickr.
Apr 19, 2012 - 10:19 am
Apr 11, 2012 - 1:36 pm
This old photograph is part of Mexican Americans’ history in Nebraska. Here, a visiting nurse poses with Mexican children in 1922.
Apr 9, 2012 - 1:46 pm
Apr 9, 2012 - 9:49 am
From the New York Times:
“We’re a humanities-based academic press that happens to publish scholarly work about baseball,” said Rob Taylor, the Nebraska press’s interim editor in chief. “People sometimes forget that sports is a vibrant part of American history.”
Other university presses, including those at Syracuse and Temple, have long published sports titles. But Nebraska’s baseball focus, with a decided emphasis on the obscure and the offbeat, has won praise. Some of its books landed on Baseball America magazine’s top 10 list for 2011: Volumes 1 and 2 of David Nemec’s “Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900” and “Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League,” by Aaron Pribble.
Titles for spring 2012 include Robert K. Fitts’s “Banzai Babe Ruth,” about the all-star barnstorming tour of Japan in 1934; Chris Lamb’s “Conspiracy of Silence,” about the role of journalists in the desegregation of the major leagues; and the second volume of Norman L. Macht’s biographical trilogy of Manager Connie Mack …
