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Why So Serious? 3 reasons why you never see a smile in old photographs
Long before the selfie, photographs had a much more somber appearance: no one smiled. Research shows that attitudes toward photos have changed drastically since the ...
Marker Monday: Dead Horse Creek
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the history behind the name of Loup City's ...
NSHS Archeology Division Co-hosts the Flint Hills Archeology Conference
Flint Hills Archeology Conference attendees at the Fort Atkinson Powder Magazine. From left, Bob Blasing, Diane Laffin, Rob Bozell, Laurie Schwab, Chris Hord, Nolan ...
National Preservation Act Celebrating 50th Year
LR458, a resolution to acknowledge the 50th year of the National Historic Preservation Act, was passed March 9 by the Nebraska State Legislature.
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Photographers and the Plains Indian
Note: The word Indian is used instead of Native American as that was the norm at the time.
August 31, 2014 was the last time the Nebraska History Museum opened its ...
Frederick Douglass descendant visits NSHS and meets a piece of his ancestor
Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great- great-grandson of Booker T. Washington, visited the Nebraska State Historical ...
Marker Monday: Early Irrigation in Cheyenne County
Marker Text
On June 1, 1926, George A. Coulter completed one of the first four irrigation wells in Cheyenne County, among the earliest in western Nebraska, on ...
Marker Monday: Spring Ranche
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The original Spring Ranche, located two miles south of here on the north side of the Little Blue River, was founded about 1863. James ...
Nebraska’s Good Roads Movement
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link and a road is a little better than its deepest mud hole.” – Isaac B. Potter, The Gospel of Good Roads, ...
Flashback Friday: Highway Archeology Employee Spotlight
We’re introducing a new feature of our blog called “Employee Spotlight.” Four times a year, we’ll interview a NSHS employee and showcase their projects and explain the ...
The Nebraska Highway Archeology Program— “So, How Do You Know Where to Dig?”
In an earlier blog post, we introduced a brief history and purpose of the Nebraska Highway Archeology Program (NHAP) – a cooperative venture by the Nebraska Department ...
Want to preserve historic sites in your community?
Historic Preservation is at its core a local effort to protect those qualities that make communities unique and which tell important stories about the people and ...
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