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Marker Monday: The Leavenworth and Pike’s Peak Express

Location Texas Ave, Stratton, Hitchcock County, Nebraska  40.148300, -101.2348 Marker Text In the spring of 1859 William H. Russell and John S. Jones ...
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Vietnam: The Fight for the Land

Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Vietnam War,” premieres in September 2017. But in the early 1960s, Omaha TV station KMTV aired a special on Vietnam called “The Fight ...
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Five Ways to Experience the History of Nebraska

#1 Chimney Rock Feel the awe and curiosity the pioneers experienced when they saw the most famous landmark on the Oregon, California, and Mormon ...
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Hunger’s Coffin

By the start of the twentieth century the pain of death had been softened for many Americans. Professional undertakers, rather than family members, laid out and attended ...
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Timeline Tuesday: 1889 New Year’s Day Eclipse

Nebraska|Solar Eclipse
  New Year's Day in Omaha in 1889 was crisp but sunny. "The streets were thronged from 9 o'clock in the morning," said the Omaha Daily Bee on January 2. ...
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Bedbugs

The current resurgence of bedbugs in the United States has brought the little pests once again into the limelight after decades of obscurity. Our pioneer ancestors, ...
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John Gregory Bourke Photographs of Native Americans

Captain John Gregory Bourke, ca. 1893 [RG2955.PH000002] John Gregory Bourke was born in Philadelphia in 1846. He distinguished himself at the Civil War battle of Stones ...
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Eli Ricker Wounded Knee interviews

Judge Eli S. Ricker of Chadron, Nebraska, April 1916, age 73. The button on his lapel says, "Votes for Women." [RG1227.PH000001-000002]   Eli Seavey Ricker was born in ...
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The Mystery of the William A. Wolfe Atlas Collection

Forty years ago on August 1, 1977, I started my career in the library of the Nebraska State Historical Society.  The Library was located on the second floor of the ...
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