EPisodes

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About

Neglecta is a podcast on history, culture, and folklore of the Great Plains.  The program is created by childhood friends Ben Bohall and Nick Batter.  Ben is a public radio journalist living in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Nick is an attorney living in Ponca Hills, Nebraska.

Ben and Nick may be reached by email: neglectapodcast@gmail.com.

Listeners are encouraged to send emails with questions, criticism, corrections, stories, or ideas.  Additional social media links can be found at the bottom of this page.

Original music for each episode is composed by Mark Nickel.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

To the fullest extent possible, our stories are compiled from primary source material, credible secondary sources, and experts.  To encourage fact-checking, criticism, and inquiry, a curated bibliography for every episode is compiled below.  Interviews, sampled media, and quoted material are typically cited within the episodes themselves.

EPISODE 01

• Ales Hrdlicka, Skeletal Reamins Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America in U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 33, (Smithsonian Institution, 1907)
• Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Evidence of Man in the Loess of Nebraska in Science 25:629 (1907)
• Fred Foote, The Complete Scopes Trial Transcript (2012)
• Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hesperopithecus, the Anthropoid Primate of Western Nebraska in Nature (Aug. 26, 1922)
• Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Earth Speaks to Bryan in The Forum 73, (1925)
• Robert F. Gilder, Recent Excavations at Long's Hill Nebraska in American Anthropologist 10:1 (Wiley, 1908)
• Robert F. Gilder, In the Lair of Nebraska's Wild Animals of the Wilderness a Million Years Ago in The Omaha World Herald (Oct. 11, 1914)
• Robert Fletcher Gilder: Archeologist For the Museum in University of Nebraska News 55:11 (Nebraska, 1975)

EPISODE 02

• A.J. Bishop, The Time Saver Catalogue of America’s War Museum, Burkley Printing Co. (1899)
• Bianki v. Greater Am. Exposition Co., 92 N.W. 615 (Neb. 1902)
• Greater America Exposition: Map of Grounds, Diagram of Buildings, Klopp & Bartless Co. (1899)
• H. F. L. Eckermann, The Greater America Exposition March, Diamond Music Publishing Company (1899)
  • download full song, performed by Dr. Stacey Barelos
• James B. Haynes, History of Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898, Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. (1910)
• Official Guide Book to the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Megeath Stationery Co. (1898)
• Rollin W. Bond, Return of the Gallant First March, The Nebraska Music Pub. (1899)
  • download full song, performed by Dr. Stacey Barelos
• Still More Anti-Machine. Exposition Employes and Others Interested in the Greater America in The Omaha World Herald p.7 (Nov. 5, 1899)
• Thomas D. Thiessen, The Fighting First Nebraska: Nebraska’s Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, 1898-1899 in Nebraska History 70 (1989)
• Zabriskie v. Greater Am. Exposition Co., 67 Neb. 581, 93 N.W. 958 (1903)

EPISODE 03

• Leon J. Cole, The German Carp in the United States, U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Fisheries (1905)
• More Fish Distributed in Nebraska in 1897 Than Ever Before in The Omaha Daily Herald (January 13, 1898)
• Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923)
• No Carp, or Anything German in The Omaha World Herald (Feb 3, 1918)
• Pierre Acobas, Shakespeare’s Ornithology via acobas.net (2017)
• Railroad Accident in The Daily Nebraska Press, Nebraska City, (June 10, 1873)
• St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, collection, Nebraska State Historical Society (1878-1956)
• The English Sparrow Missed in The New York Times (July 8, 1883)

EPISODE 04

• A Closer Look at Sheldon Station, Nebraska Public Power District (2000)
• Don Schaufelberger and Bill Beck, The Only State: A History of Public Power in Nebraska (2010)
• Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, collection, Nebraska Public Power District
• Ground Breaking Ceremony, mailed invitation, Consumers Public Power District (June 1958)
• Harold Cowan, Beatrice Area Is Preparing for Atom Power Plant in The Lincoln Journal Star (November 4, 1955)
• Kenneth Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, New York University Press (2004)
• Nebraska Figures in Vast Atomic Race in The Omaha World Herald (January 29. 1956)
• Papers of Omaha Action, collection, Nebraska State Historical Society (1959)
• Robert Chesky, Atom Boom, Not Atom Bomb, May Turn Quiet, Friendly Town of Hallam Upside Down in The Lincoln Journal Star (November 5, 1955)
• The Atlas in The Military Engineer (November 15, 1959)
• William Kloefkorn, This Death by Drowning, 24-25, Bison Books (2001)
• W.L. Random, Destructive Examination of A Hallam Nuclear Power Facility Intermediate Heat Exchanger, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (April 1971)