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Earliest video of Husker football
Film clips from a circa-1919 game against Notre Dame are spliced together with clips from an even earlier game, circa 1912-1914. We believe this is the earliest known ...
“Now there was blood in her eye”: An 1879 interview with Bright Eyes
By David L. Bristow
This is a preview of an article that will appear in the Spring 2026 issue of Nebraska History magazine. "Household Plus" NSHS members receive four ...
Marker Monday: Doniphan 1887 Fire
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Hall County Sheriff Wedgwood received a telegram from W.J. Burger of Doniphan on November 27, 1887, informing him that half the town was in ashes. The ...
The Huskers wore green jerseys for the 1919 football season
The Huskers played the entire 1919 season wearing green jerseys and scarlet socks. What was their athletic director thinking? And how did fans react?
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Emily Fontenelle’s Fancy Handbag
This handbag reflects Emily Fontenelle’s mixed-race Pawnee heritage and her nineteenth- and twentieth-century lifetime. She donated the bag to the Nebraska State ...
Marker Monday: Swedish Crosses Cemetery
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a small cemetery that is all that remains of a Swedish ...
Preserving John Falter’s Work: Inside the Conservation of a 400-Piece Collection
The Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center Paper Lab recently completed treatment on a collection of nearly 400 works on paper by the American artist John P. Falter, perhaps ...
Pawnee Scouts
No tribe has deeper roots in Nebraska than the Pawnees, but by the mid-nineteenth century they faced mounting hardship and multiple enemies. Pressured by the ...
Marker Monday: Before Creighton
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Archaeological evidence shows periodic Native American residence in this general area for some 12,000 years. From the mid-1600s to the early 1700s the ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: The Howells Historical Society Museum
The Howells Historical Society Museum collects memorabilia that helps to tell the story of the early days of Howells, Nebraska, and the surrounding area.
In 1974, ...
Messages from the Great Beyond
The practice of Spiritualism primarily involved the communication with spirits or ghostly associations who have “gone over,” or died in the flesh. Claiming to be in ...
Settlers taking the law in their own hands
Written on this photo: “Settlers taking the law in their own hands cutting 15 miles of the Brighton Ranch fence in 1885.” Photographer Solomon D. Butcher staged the ...
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