The National Park Service has awarded $350,000 from the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant to History Nebraska (P22AP01544). The State Historic Preservation Office ...
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 ...
Mug Shot Photography revolutionized crime investigations. Beginning in the mid 1800s, police photographed the faces of known criminals. Called "mug shots" (after the ...
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 ...
The State Archeology Office provides cultural resource management services to state and federally-funded agencies on a contract basis. Staff archeologists and ...
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 ...
In 1886, the weather stranded area travelers and forced the cancellation of a Thanksgiving entertainment in Valentine.
President Grover Cleveland in a ...
The Semiquincentennial Commission was created by the Nebraska Legislature through LB 275 in 2021, and consists of seventeen members, including the Director and CEO of ...
In making materials available online History Nebraska acts in good faith. These materials are made available for educational and scholarly use. If you are a rights ...
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 ...
Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features members of Volunteers of America ready to distribute Thanksgiving baskets to families in need in ...
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 ...