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Jim McKee: The demise of a town and a university

Bad breaks and bad timing spelled doom for a college in Madison, Nebraska. ....

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Jim McKee: A site for the seat in Nuckolls County

Nuckolls is one of the few counties where the seat isn t the county s largest city. Here s how it happened. ....

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15 more Nebraska ghost towns

Nebraska ghost towns stories often are unheard and remind us about the struggles of taming the wilderness that became the Good Life. ....

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Journey to Freedom: Graduate thesis addresses slavery in Nebraska Territory

Journey to Freedom: Graduate thesis addresses slavery in Nebraska Territory
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In her master’s thesis – “Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory” – Gail Shaffer Blankenau shines a light on a dark part of early Nebraska history by addressing slavery through the eyes of Celia and Eliza Grayson, two young Black women who were enslaved by Nebraska City founder Stephen F. Nuckolls.
Unlike the man who owned them, Stephen F. Nuckolls, their names largely faded into history.
“A lot of people don’t realize there were enslaved people in Nebraska,” said Gail Shaffer Blankenau, a professional genealogist and researcher from Lincoln. ....

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