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History Nebraska Receives $350,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant

Grants | historic preservation | Rural Nebraska

The National Park Service has awarded $350,000 from the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant to History Nebraska (P22AP01544). The State Historic Preservation Office ...

Why Kearney, Nebraska, will become a second Minneapolis (1889)

Buffalo County | Kearney | Moses Sydenham | Transportation

Kearney was booming in 1889 when city boosters commissioned a promotional book entitled The City of Kearney, Nebraska. A copy of this boastful, lavishly illustrated book ...

Treating Douglas County Field Notes

conservation | Douglas County | Ford Center | Gerald Ford Conservation Center

Paper Conservator, Hilary LeFevere, recently completed treatment on two record books of survey field notes for Douglas County, Nebraska. Both books were in need of ...

The Year Nobody Scored on the Huskers

Football | Huskers

By David L. Bristow, Editor Husker fans love arguing about whether the 1971 or 1955 championship team was the greatest in school history. But one year the Cornhuskers ...

The first years of Genoa Indian Industrial School

Genoa | Indian School | Native American

By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant During the Indian Reform movement that began in the 1860s, reformers opened boarding schools to assimilate Indigenous ...

When Fort Robinson had walls, 1875

Camp Robinson | Fort Robinson

During his many years as curator at Fort Robinson, historian Tom Buecker used to say that visitors’ most-asked question was, “Where’s the fort?” People came expecting to ...

A dudy is a Czech bagpipe

Czech | music

Here’s something to look for next time you’re in downtown Lincoln. A Czech bagpipe (known as a dudy) is pictured on the outside of a prominent building. Can you find ...

Grand Grocery, 1942

Food | Lincoln | World War II

Color photography was still relatively rare and expensive in 1942 when photographer John Vachon stopped at the Grand Grocery at 1000 P Street in downtown Lincoln. ...

Bombs Away

Gerald Ford Conservation Center

During the early morning on August 16, 1943, residents of tiny Tarnov, Nebraska, were startled from their sleep by the sound of "bombs" falling on their town. The ...

Securing a Civil War Era Sewing Kit

Civil War | conservation | Gerald Ford Conservation Center

When collection objects are loaned from one museum to another for an exhibit, it is best practice for a condition report to be written before the object is sent away. ...

Emily Fontenelle’s Fancy Handbag

Fashion | Native American

This handbag reflects Emily Fontenelle’s mixed-race Pawnee heritage and her nineteenth- and twentieth-century lifetime. She donated the bag to History Nebraska in ...

Welcome to Archeology Month!

September is Archeology Month! Let us introduce you to Nebraska's State Archeologist, Dave Williams. New Nebraska State Archeologist Dave Williams conducting ...

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