Month: June 2012

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150th Anniversary of the Dakota War

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Edited by Carrie Reber Zeman and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity rescues from obscurity a crucially important work about the bitterly contested U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. And to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Dakota War, a new exhibit is opening at the Minnesota History Center featuring documents, images and artifacts relating to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Click here for more information. Continue reading 150th Anniversary of the Dakota War

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Omaha’s first “cash mob”

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Cash mob's have been popping up all over the country and yesterday was Omaha's first at The Bookworm on Pacific Street in Omaha. The Omaha World-Herlald reported that more than 200 cash mobs have been held around the country over the past year. Cash mobs are similar to flash mobs, but they encourage people to support local businesses by pledging to spend $20 on a chosen day. Learn more about cash mobs here. Continue reading Omaha’s first “cash mob”

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Remembering Medgar Evers

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Jackson, Mississippi is the story of the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, told by one of its foremost activists, John R. Salter Jr. The struggle for civil rights featured some of the bloodiest resistance by a panoply of repressive resources—“lawmen,” hoodlums, politicians, and vigilantes—but also introduced Salter to the movement’s most compelling and important figures, including NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers. The Journal of Mississippi History called it “A meticulously crafted, almost hour-by-hour account of the rise and fall of one of the region’s more remarkable grass-roots protest movements.” This month, people are remembering Medgar Evers' legacy. He was assassinated June … Continue reading Remembering Medgar Evers

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Celebrating the Homestead Act

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This year is the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act and the Homestead National Monument is right here in Nebraska! Visit the National Park Service site to see events celebrating this landmark in American History. And forthcoming this September is Nancy Plain's Light on the Prairie which features 62 of Solomon D. Butcher's photographs taken of this monumentous event which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it. Continue reading Celebrating the Homestead Act

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UNP book ‘essential’

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Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader was reviewed on Strategy Page by A. A. Nofi. Nofi called the book "…an absolutely essential work for any serious student of the military aspects of the Civil War or the history of the U.S. Army and of American warmaking." Read the full review here. Continue reading UNP book ‘essential’