Throughout this site, we have a number of video and other multimedia resources that can take you to historical sites or help visualize what are sometimes complex ideas. This page lists all of the media resources for the 1925 to 1949 Era section. To play these media elements you will need two free player programs, QuickTime and Real Media. Below are links to the sites where you can download the players. Clicking these links will open a new browser window. Just close the new window to come back here.

Senator George Norris worked diligently to create the Unicameral. Source: NETV. Click here to see a video segment about the Unicameral.	The Omaha Star addressed controversial issues such as racism and war. Source: NETCHE. Click here to see a video segment about the Omaha Star.
Mildred Brown used her paper's power to develop opportunities for African Americans in Omaha. Source: NETCHE. Click here to see a video segment about Brown and advertising practices.	Part 1 Construction of the Tri-County Project from 1936 to 1941
Part 2 Construction of the Tri-County Project from 1936 to 1941	Part 3 Construction of the Tri-County Project from 1936 to 1941
Farmers had to learn how to use the water delivered by the new Tri-County Project water system. Source — Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District.	Click here to see an animation of the water flow from the Rockies to Nebraska. Water from the North Platte River flows into Lake McConaughy, mostly as return flows from irrigation projects in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
Click here to see how a hydroplant works.	Speedboat racing at Lake McConaughy was also a very popular and exciting event during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Source — Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District.
The TVA was a forerunner of the Rural Electrification Act (REA). Source: NETV.	The attack on Pearl Harbor was such a life-altering event that people carried vivid memories of when they heard about it.
The war on the front lines and the home front produced patriotism and optimism.	The history of conscientious objection.
Conscientious objectors volunteered to be starved and studied.	Nebraska's National Guard units are mobilized.
Col. Butler Miltonberger was a tough commander.	The 134th National Guard unit fought bravely in Europe.
After the war, Miltonberger was promoted and others went on with their lives.	The North Platte Canteen was a welcome respite for troops on their way to war.
To support the canteen, one young man auctioned off the shirt on his back ... over and over again.	The special section "War Letters" begins here.
A slide show of a German propaganda leaflet.	A slide show of propaganda posters.
A slide show of John Falter's recruiting posters.	Nebraskans tightened their belts and recycled to help the war effor
But there were also rationing cheats looking for more gas and other commodities.	John Falter's studio and paintings, including a visit to home town Falls City, Nebraska.
Building an "Arsenal for Democracy" meant jobs and a more diverse workforce.	A slide show of the Omaha Martin Bomber Plant.
Women workers at a B29 plant.	Women enter the workplace at the Grand Island Ordnance Plant in this slide show.
Video of the changes the Naval Ammunition Depot brought to Hastings.	The comic strip "Axis Accidents."
A slide show of the African American experience at the Hastings Ordnance Plant.	Video of POW work details.
Video of VJ Day, Victory over Japan.	Start of the War
Cornhusker Ordnance Plant	Start of the North Platte Canteen
Mothers and Sons	Pearl Harbor
Wounded	Exercise Tiger
Hill 122	Peleliu Island
Sunk Ship	Munich
War Letters	Letters From Bill Green to his Mother
Letters and Honors Captain Keith Van Neste	Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
Tuskegee: Radical Experiment	Heroes Not Welcome
Mexicans Americans Chosen First	Latino Pride
Nebraskan War Hero	Photo from Yearbook Kei Tanahashi, another War Hero
Photo Album Ben Kuroki	Document UNL Board of Regents Inter-racial Policy 1943
Concentration Camps	Freedom
Map Major German Concentration Camps	Nuremberg
Forgiveness	Atomic Bomb Experience
After the Atomic Bomb	End of World War II
Newspaper Omaha Morning World Herald, Aug. 15, 1945	Newspaper Schuyler Sun, Aug. 16, 1945
The Story of Beef: Mechanization on Ranches	The Story of Beef: Genetics
The Story of Beef: World War II	The Story of Beef: Black Marketing
The Story of Beef: Blizzard: A Really Bad Snowstorm	The Story of Beef: Sibbitt's Cat Story