History Nebraska Receives $350,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant
The National Park Service has awarded $350,000 from the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant to History Nebraska (P22AP01544). The State Historic Preservation Office ...
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What We Found
Thanksgiving at the Fort, 1939
Fort Robinson served as the army’s “Remount Depot,” providing trained horses and mules for the troops. The fort’s holiday feasts were an occasion for dress uniforms and ...
Historic Nebraska Mugshots
Mug Shot Photography revolutionized crime investigations. Beginning in the mid 1800s, police photographed the faces of known criminals. Called "mug shots" (after the ...
Villasur Expedition Hide Painting Reproduction
In recognition of the 300th anniversary of the Villasur Expedition, the Nebraska History Museum displayed a reproduction of the hide painting that was created to ...
Highway Cultural Resources Program/CRM
The State Archeology Office provides cultural resource management services to state and federally-funded agencies on a contract basis. Staff archeologists and ...
Turkey Day in Holdrege
We have film of live turkeys being thrown from a rooftop in Holdrege in 1939. The Turkey Day promotion had a simple rule: any turkey you caught was yours to cook for ...
A Blustery Valentine Thanksgiving
In 1886, the weather stranded area travelers and forced the cancellation of a Thanksgiving entertainment in Valentine.
President Grover Cleveland in a ...
Semiquincentennial Commission
The Semiquincentennial Commission was created by the Nebraska Legislature through LB 275 in 2021, and consists of seventeen members, including the Director of the ...
Collection Take Down Notice
In making materials available online the Nebraska State Historical Society acts in good faith. These materials are made available for educational and scholarly use. If ...
For Your Enjoyment: Thanksgiving Foods from 1914
Did you ever wish you could step into a time machine and return to 1914, just over one hundred years ago, to join the celebration of Thanksgiving? What might the holiday ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features members of Volunteers of America ready to distribute Thanksgiving baskets to families in need in ...
Aerial Photographer Experience in the Pacific During WWII
A Nebraskan Aerial Photographer's Experience in the Pacific During WWII
Robert Auker Merchant (1920-2008) at age 22 became a staff sergeant with the 90th Bomb Group ...
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