Marker Monday: Susan La Flesche Picotte Memorial Hospital
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This hospital was built in 1912 under the guidance of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman physician, with the ...
Lillian Nelms
What We Found
NSHS Employees Recognized for Excellence in Leadership
Governor Pillen has recognized the Nebraska State Historical Society's Lezlee Williams and Bruce Carlson among 100 State of Nebraska public servants whose ...
Christmas at The Rock
Christmas is coming! What better way to celebrate than the way the settlers did in the nineteenth century?
Marker Monday: The Ponca Villages
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Present-day Ponca, Nebraska, is near the first village built by the Ponca in the early 1600s after they separated from the Omaha and became their own ...
Marker Monday: Catherland
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Here on the Divide between the Republican and the Little Blue lived some of the most courageous people of the frontier. Their fortunes and ...
Marker Monday: Father Kano
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Father Kano (1899-1988) was the son of a prominent family in Japan. He studied agriculture at the Imperial University in Tokyo. Kano’s family ...
“Would You Have Voted to Create the Nebraska Unicameral?” DBQ
Students will use primary sources from the NSHS archives to decide if they would have voted to create Nebraska's Unicameral in 1934. Lesson includes a contextual essay, ...
Read All About It: George Norris (Adults)
Suggested reading about George Norris curated for adult readers.
Read All About It: George Norris (Students)
Suggested reading about George Norris curated for K-12 students.
Marker Monday: The Death of Baptiste Garnier
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The Chief of Fort Robinson Scouts, Baptiste “Little Bat” Garnier was shot by James Haguewood, bartender, in this building known as Dietrich’s ...
Cudahy Kidnapping
The kidnapping of sixteen-year-old Edward Cudahy Jr., son of the prominent Omaha meatpacker, was one of the most sensational crimes in Nebraska history. The boy was ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Free Admission at the Nebraska History Museum as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.!
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