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Preserving Current Events
It can be difficult to know what objects in present times will be valued in the future. However, the staff at History Nebraska actively seeks to build its collection of ...
What Happens When Indigenous Skeletal Remains are Found
All too often, human remains are discovered in Nebraska as the result of plowing, construction, or natural erosion. There are state and federal laws which govern how ...
Fort Robinson Bullet
Not all the objects we treat at the Ford Center are beautiful works of art. Some tell darker and more tragic tales of our nation’s past. The object described here is a ...
Marker Monday: Hamilton County Courthouse
Marker Text
This building is Hamilton County’s third courthouse. The first was built in Orville City, the original county seat, in 1870. After five elections, ...
Sketching Ash Hollow in 1851
How a historian identified one of the earliest known sketches of Ash Hollow.
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The symbols and secret codes of a 1922 KKK membership medallion
This pocket piece in History Nebraska’s collection served as a kind of membership card for admittance to Klan meetings. .It demonstrates how the KKK used symbolism and ...
‘Detroit Riprap’ on the Loup River
Emily Copper noticed something weird along the Loup River near Columbus while looking at Google Maps. It looked like a line of old cars along the bank.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks President Truman on Omaha radio, 1951
By David L. Bristow, Editor
“You are not fooling anyone by screaming that McCarthy is lying,” said Sen. Joseph McCarthy into a KFAB microphone ...
The gravestones with no names
This headstone once bore a child’s name, but it has been chiseled off. All other markers in the cemetery are likewise erased. Where is it?
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Fighting Words in Nebraska Territory
The motto on the Nebraska Territorial Seal, "Popular Sovereignty," was seen as a euphemism for the expansion of slavery.
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How filing cabinets changed the world
This is a story of a piece of office infrastructure that quietly helped create the modern world. Nebraska newspapers first carried ads for filing cabinets in the ...
When the Territorial Capitol basement was a human litter box, 1859
In 1859 members of the legislature used the capitol basement's dirt floor as a latrine.
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