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Nebraska History Spotlight: the Decatur Museum
The Decatur Historical Committee started with organizing activities for the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition visit in 2004. Cemetery tours were ...
2026 Nebraska State Historical Society Elected Board of Trustees
Five new Nebraska State Historical Society Board of Trustees candidates will be joining the board on January 1, 2027, and one current trustee was reelected. All board of ...
Marker Monday: The Seedling Mile
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, our focus is a preserved section of the Lincoln Highway. It's ...
Born-Digital Collections
Most people think of archives as rows of books, photos, and microfilm, but just as digital media has become central to government, business, and personal affairs, ...
Nebraska’s 1898 World’s Fair
By David L. Bristow, Editor
More than 2.6 million people attended the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Held from June through October ...
Preserving the Albert Beguin Collection
Our Photograph and Audiovisual Curator, Matthew Mickelson, has been hard at work this last year cleaning, repairing, and digitizing the Albert Beguin collection. ...
Marker Monday: Antioch Potash Boom-Town
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on Antioch, the Nebraska ghost town that ...
Up-Close and Personal: NSHS Collections at the Nebraska History Museum
Want to see some of Nebraska’s archives up close? Come check out the Nebraska History Museum! Archives play an important role in interpreting our history, and quite a ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
Marker Text
From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
The Men of South Omaha, 1892
By the 1890s South Omaha had a reputation as a rough, violent place. But Omaha World-Herald columnist Elia Peattie saw something else:
“South Omaha is ...
ArchivesSpace: Database Improvements
Some of you may have noticed that we have a new way to search our collections online – through a database called ArchivesSpace. The Nebraska State Historical Society ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Museum of American Speed
Preserving America’s Automotive Heritage: Inside the Museum of American Speed
Nestled in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Museum of American Speed is dedicated to preserving ...
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