The Cartoons of Herbert Johnson
By Deb Arenz, Associate Director, Collections
(From Nebraska History News, July-August-September 2014)
John Falter, featured in a 2012-13 Nebraska History Museum ...
David Bristow
What We Found
Found at an Estate Sale: A Trophy from the Year Nebraska Banned Girls’ Basketball Tournaments
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Jim Brogden was browsing an estate sale in Acworth, Georgia, when he noticed this beautiful trophy. It tells a story not only of ...
Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska’s teen airmail pilot
Evelyn Sharp wasn’t Nebraska’s first female pilot, but is remembered for all she accomplished during her brief life.
Sharp’s father owned a café in Ord and rented ...
Willa Cather’s Real-Life Ántonia on the Radio
By David L. Bristow
Ántonia Shimerda is perhaps Willa Cather’s most beloved fictional character, the namesake of her 1918 novel, My Ántonia.
Cather based Ántonia ...
Neligh Mill at 150
By David L. Bristow
April 10, 2024
Neligh Mill, in the northeast Nebraska town of Neligh, is a place where the past doesn’t feel all that long ago—as if the ...
Nebraska’s Japanese American History
By David L. Bristow, Editor
April 18, 2023
Japanese immigration to the West began following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, with immigrants coming first ...
Robert Ball Anderson’s journey “from slavery to affluence”
Born in slavery, Robert Ball Anderson became a prosperous rancher in Box Butte County, Nebraska.
How they celebrated the Fourth of July in Bellevue when Nebraska was a new territory (1854)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Nebraska was a newly-organized US territory in 1854. Not yet whittled down to its present boundaries, “Nebraska” was a ...
Fonda Family and the Omaha Community Playhouse Share Legacy Spanning its Hundred Year History
This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Nebraska History Magazine, a quarterly publication of History Nebraska. Family-plus members receive four issues per ...
When author Bess Streeter Aldrich brought Hollywood to Nebraska
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Many Nebraskans remember when Terms of Endearment held its world premiere in Lincoln on November 22, 1983. The movie was partly filmed ...
Opening Doors: Film Director Joan Micklin Silver of Omaha
This article appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Nebraska State Historical Society members receive four issues of the magazine per year. The ...
How Nebraska artist John Falter imagined the Battle of Concord
By David L. Bristow, Editor, April 17, 2025
April 19, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which launched ...
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