Worth looking up tonight

nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men

bank (1889), willa cather history center, up detail, webster street, red cloud, nebraska, 1988

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website! rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

go on, go on

Our most popular item is Song of the Great Blizzard: "Thirteen were saved": or, Nebraska's fearless maid. During an 1888 blizzard, teacher Minnie Freeman saved her 13 students by walking to the nearest house 3/4 mile away. Available: openspaces.unk.edu/spec-coll/10/ #PopularItem #Archive30 #archives

Happy #Archive30 to all! We're the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives & Special Collections; excuse the mess - we got new shelving. We're on the 2nd floor of the @unklibrary.bsky.social. We specialize in history of education, central & western NE, and UNK. Come visit! #YourArchive

Due to inclement weather the library will be closed tomorrow.

New History Job Posted Today: Assistant Professor of History (Public History) | University of Nebraska at Kearney

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 19,1953

UNK Giving Day 2024 starts at noon! Support the Calvin T. Ryan Library to help us keep offering valuable resources, study spaces, and services to all Lopers. Join us November 13-14, from noon to noon, and show your support at givingday.unk.edu/organization.... #onedayforunk

Welcome, new followers! We're the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives & Special Collections. Besides institutional history, we focus on - central and western #Nebraska - history of education #HistEd We also have lots from Nebraskans abroad as well as Great Plains #HistSciMed #archives