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New book, An American Corner of the World, explores Richardson County, Nebraska
April 30, 2025
A new book from the Nebraska State Historical Society offers a “deep geography” of an American place, Richardson County, Nebraska, in the state’s ...
Nebraska State Archeologists at Sharp Homestead
Archeologists from the NSHS State Archeology Office (SAO) began work on the Sharp Homestead site in Stanton County. The site was first recorded in 1992 and ...
Robert Kennedy and the 1968 Nebraska campaign trail
“I learned one thing I will never forget,” said Robert F. Kennedy on April 27, 1968, “It is a long way across Nebraska by train.”
Kennedy had just finished an ...
Arbor Day Origins
Arbor Day began inauspiciously as one of a number of efforts to encourage the planting of trees in barren Nebraska. The State Board of Agriculture had offered a prize of ...
Stabilizing a Book of 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
The Paper Lab at the Ford Conservation Center recently completed treatment on a historic volume of woodblock prints.
“The Painter’s Handbook” was printed in the early ...
Marker Monday: Marion Lux Carnegie Medal
Marker Text
Near this location, on September 26, 1907, 18-month old Gladys Dixon followed her elder sisters as they left for school. Their home being near the ...
How Nebraska artist John Falter imagined the Battle of Concord
By David L. Bristow, Editor, April 17, 2025
April 19, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which launched ...
A Nebraska “Unsinkable” Ship Connection: Titanic Carl Johnson
Over a century has sailed by since the horrific night of April, 15th 1912. What was known as the “unsinkable” ship shocked the world when the Titanic submerged ...
Marker Monday: Easter Blizzard of 1873
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments, places, and people in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of ...
J. Sterling Morton creates Arbor Day
Arbor Day originated in Nebraska in 1872, when the State Board of Agriculture adopted J. Sterling Morton's resolution that April 10 of that year be set aside for tree ...
Will Pigs Help Win the War?
After the United States entered World War I in April of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Herbert Hoover head of the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed ...
Marker Monday: Village of Harrison
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the history of the town with the highest ...
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