2025

For our April #ChronAmParty, we are celebrating National Pet Day a little late by looking at our furry friends in historic Nebraska newspapers. When I think of pet news, my mind immediately goes to Hollywood’s famous heroic dogs like Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, as seen in this coverage of Rin Tin Tin III during…

For our March #ChronAmParty, we want to spotlight a newly digitized pro-Suffrage paper, The Beatrice Daily Express, and a Suffrage paper — some would argue THE Suffrage paper — The Woman’s Tribune. We have in the past digitized almost the entire run of the Omaha Bee. As a competitor to the Omaha World and the…

For this month’s #ChronAmParty, we are looking at some of Nebraska’s Black newspapers, the Omaha Monitor, the Omaha Guide, and Lincoln’s The Voice, along with one of our newly digitized papers, The Powder Keg. The earliest of these papers is The Monitor (later Omaha Monitor), which ran 1915-1928. In an era when most papers had…

After years of stringing together #ChronAmParty posts, featuring #CreepySantas or #FashionPlates, for this month’s #ChronAmParty we are trying a new format. Our theme is #RetroFuturism in honor of January’s National Science Fiction Day, celebrated annually on January 2. Nebraska’s newspapers occasionally featured serialized Science Fiction stories, such as The North Platte Weekly Tribune’s publication of…