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New book, An American Corner of the World, explores Richardson County, Nebraska
April 30, 2025
A new book from the Nebraska State Historical Society offers a “deep geography” of an American place, Richardson County, Nebraska, in the state’s ...
Nebraska State Archeologists at Sharp Homestead
Archeologists from the NSHS State Archeology Office (SAO) began work on the Sharp Homestead site in Stanton County. The site was first recorded in 1992 and ...
Marker Monday: Mullen, Hooker County
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The Grand Island and Wyoming Central branch of the Burlington railroad came through this area in 1887 and built a siding here named Mullen after a railroad ...
Robert Kennedy and the 1968 Nebraska campaign trail
“I learned one thing I will never forget,” said Robert F. Kennedy on April 27, 1968, “It is a long way across Nebraska by train.”
Kennedy had just finished an ...
Arbor Day Origins
Arbor Day began inauspiciously as one of a number of efforts to encourage the planting of trees in barren Nebraska. The State Board of Agriculture had offered a prize of ...
Stabilizing a Book of 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
The Paper Lab at the Ford Conservation Center recently completed treatment on a historic volume of woodblock prints.
“The Painter’s Handbook” was printed in the early ...
