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National History Day: Nebraska
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Clara Colby
Standing Bear
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John Johnson
George Crook
Crystal Lake
Nebraska Bomber Plant
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Frontier Forts
Oregon Trail
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Omaha-World Herald Scrap Metal Drive
1919 Omaha Race Riot
The Villasur Expedition
POWs in Nebraska During
World War II
Strategic Air Command
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The Cheyenne Outbreak
Lewis and Clark and the
Corps of Discovery
Joseph Johnson
The Pony Express
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition
The Red Cloud Agency
Standing Bear
Angel DeCora
Lewis and Clark and the
Corps of Discovery
John Johnson
The Omaha Star
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1936 Race Riot
Buffalo Soldiers
Rheta Childe Dorr
Women's Suffrage in Nebraska
Willa Cather
Joseph Johnson
US Postal Air Mail Service in Nebraska
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Ernie Chambers
The 1986 Nebraska Gubernatorial Election
Susan La Flesche Picotte
Meyer v Nebraska
Standing Bear
Kay Orr
The Homestead Act of 1862
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John Johnson
Prohibition in Nebraska
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Ada Bittenbender
Rheta Childe Dorr
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition
The Transcontinental Railroad
Russel, Majors, Wadell Freighting
Union Stockyards
Frederick Clements
Meyer v Nebraska
University of Nebraska
Nebraska State Teacher's Association
William Henry Jackson
Water Rights in Nebraska
The Dust Bowl
The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888
Ranching
Frank Zybach
The Kincaid Act of 1904
The Transcontinental Railroad
US Postal Air Mail Service in Nebraska
The Pony Express
William Henry Jackson
The SAFER Barrier
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Constance Claussen
Johnny Hopp
Bob Pickens
William Henry Jackson
John Johnson
Angel DeCora
Lillian St. Cyr
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J. Sterling Morton
The Omaha Star
William Holden
Rheta Childe Dorr
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