By David L. Bristow, Editor
On April 18, 1921, the Nebraska state legislature became the first* to name a state poet laureate, honoring forty-year-old ...
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Arbor Lodge State Historical Park in Nebraska City features a small house that became a 52-room mansion. It belonged to Arbor ...
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Did you know that we got our state motto due to a post-Civil War controversy over Black voting rights?
In another post, we looked ...
Born in Filley, Nebraska, Robert Taylor became one of Hollywood's biggest stars. In 1947 he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about purposed ...
Nebraska lawyer Othman Abbott and his wife, early settlers in Grand Island, shared an interest in women's rights. In his Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer, published by ...
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today we focus on a site near Scotia, Nebraska once called Happy ...
Arbor Day originated in Nebraska in 1872, when the State Board of Agriculture adopted J. Sterling Morton's resolution that April 10 of that year be set aside for tree ...
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-relating to the history of the people of Nebraska
The Museum Collections Department is responsible for the ...
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-master file of all archeological projects conducted and sites discovered in the state
-primary records ...
-about 80,000 volumes including state publications and periodicals
-3,000 maps and atlases
-3,532 cataloged Nebraska newspapers
The Library collections are ...
Discover History Nebraska's most popular images. Search images from our Native American collections, the Macdonald Studio Collection (Lincoln, NE), and historical ...