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The Great Bicentennial Sculpture War
“No Indians, No Bison, No Covered Wagons, I-80 Sculpture Project Unveiled”
So read a Lincoln Evening Journal headline on July 9, 1975. Nebraska’s proposed I-80 ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Madison County Historical Society
The Madison County Historical Society (MCHS) was founded in 1928 and established a museum in 1966 to prepare for the centennial of Nebraska and of the city of ...
James E. Potter Research Room Director Update
The James E. Potter Research Room is where NSHS members and the public can access items from the Nebraska State Historical Society collections, including books, maps, ...
Marker Monday: Culbertson
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing Culbertson, Nebraska, the original county seat ...
Harriet S. Brooks, Woman Suffragist
By the time Harriet S. Brooks became a senior founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, she had been promoting women's right to vote for decades in ...
Marker Monday: Ak-Sar-Ben Field and the U.S. Air Mail
Marker Text
Ak-Sar-Ben Field, whose hangars were located on the southeastern corner of these grounds, was used extensively during the early development of U.S. ...
Woodbey for Regent! When the Nebraska Prohibition Party nominated a Black woman in 1895
At the Nebraska Prohibition Party’s statewide convention in 1895, held in July in Lincoln, C. E. Bentley (who was to be a Prohibition candidate for president in 1896) ...
War Memorial, Antelope Park, Lincoln, 1936
Though its subject matter was traditional, Antelope Park’s 1936 war memorial was unusual for its materials and methods. Instead of carved stone, sculptor Ellis Burman ...
Triumphs and Troubles: The Early History of the NAACP in Nebraska, 1918-1940
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
In a period of intense racial discrimination, groups like the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of ...
Marker Monday: Japanese Balloon Bombs
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During World War II the Japanese built some nine thousand hydrogen-filled, paper balloons to carry small bombs to North America, hoping to set ...
Nebraska Suffragists and the Declaration of Independence
By David L. Bristow
This is the headline of a pamphlet found in the papers of Erasmus Correll at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Erasmus and Lucy Correll were ...
Celebrating National Embroidery Month: Works from the Collection
With February being National Embroidery Month, we thought it’d be the perfect time to showcase some of the incredible pieces we have in our collection.
I’m an ...
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