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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
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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 ...
Marker Monday: Grover Cleveland Alexander, a baseball great
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Grover Cleveland Alexander, the third-winningest pitcher in major league baseball history, was born near Elba, Nebraska, on February 26, 1887. ...
Flashback Friday: Our World-Traveling Beaver Effigy Bowl
One of the upcoming Nebraska Unwrapped: Selections from the Collections exhibit artifacts has traveled the world since the last time it was available for the public to ...
Flashback Friday: From Our Special Correspondent, NSHS Press’s newest book
While many history textbook authors have erased humor from history, primary sources reveal that jokes and hardships together make up an important part of the past. Our ...
Barbara and Ralph Fox Photo Exhibit
American Dreams in the Cold War: Photos by Barbara and Ralph Fox
Barbara and Ralph Fox, 1943 Ralph C. and Barbara Rehberg Fox Collection (NSHS ...
Marker Monday: The Skala Timber House
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The Joseph and Katherine Severa Skala house, built near Battle Creek by 1869, is a rare product of Czech-American culture. Discovered inside a ...
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