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Summer 2015 Kids’ Classes, On the Move!
The Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln may be closed for renovation, but there’s a summer full of fun and learning for kids at a variety of locations. Learn about Native ...
The Camp Fire Collection
With generous support from the NSHS Foundation, the Library/Archives was recently able to purchase archival supplies and hire a temporary archives assistant to organize, ...
Nebraska Corn Helps Win the War
In a blog post a few years ago we showcased the gas station operated by Earl Coryell that pioneered the production and sale of an ethyl alcohol blended motor fuel. ...
Original Omaha “foot ball”
Even before Nebraska had the Husker football team, it had Omaha “foot ball” clubs that played what we now call soccer. The game’s growth in Omaha was similar to its ...
Nebraska Prisoners “in the biting stage”
By Joy Carey, Editorial Assistant
February 19, 2015 (updated March 21, 2022)
The prisoners called it a protest. The guards called it a riot. But on ...
Man Seeking Wife, with help from the Mayor
Here's an oddball story for your day. In 1934, a thirty-year-old farmer from South Dakota named John Sourbier wrote the mayor of Omaha with a unique request. "Maybe you ...
When cowboys shot up Niobrara
For a short period of time, cattle drives were big business in Nebraska. After the Civil War ended in 1865, growing demand for beef plus a surplus of longhorn cattle in ...
Celebrating Robert Burns and Nebraska’s Scottish Heritage
Engraving from 1787 portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth.
The anniversary of the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns on January 25, 1759, was once widely ...
Major North’s Buffalo Hunt Ended by a Blizzard
About midnight the wind changed to the north, bringing rain and sleet, and within an hour a blizzard was raging on the open prairie.
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Prairie Imperialists: Expansion from Nebraska to Cuba and the Philippines
As a result of the Spanish-American war of 1898, the United States was suddenly a colonial power, untested in the administration of overseas territory. George ...
Midwest Archives Conference Presidents’ Award
Has an individual or organization in your community done extraordinary work or given support for your archives? If so, consider nominating him or her for a Midwest ...
Nebraska’s “Ghost” Counties
It seems that one incorrect map led to more than a decade of confusion regarding six nonexistent counties in Western Nebraska. How did such a mistake happen?
In the ...
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