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Why So Serious? 3 reasons why you never see a smile in old photographs

Long before the selfie, photographs had a much more somber appearance: no one smiled. Research shows that attitudes toward photos have changed drastically since the ...

Marker Monday: U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot

Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.  Today we focus on the site of the Navy's largest World War II ...

Marker Monday: Dead Horse Creek

Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.  Today, we're focusing on the history behind the name of Loup ...

NSHS Archeology Division Co-hosts the Flint Hills Archeology Conference

Flint Hills Archeology Conference attendees at the Fort Atkinson Powder Magazine. From left, Bob Blasing, Diane Laffin, Rob Bozell, Laurie Schwab, Chris Hord, Nolan ...

Marker Monday: Easter Blizzard of 1873

Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments, places, and people in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of ...

National Preservation Act Celebrating 50th Year

LR458, a resolution to acknowledge the 50th year of the National Historic Preservation Act, was passed March 9 by the Nebraska State Legislature. Preservation50 ...

Photographers and the Plains Indian

August 31, 2014 was the last time the Nebraska History Museum opened its doors.  After nineteen months of renovations, the Nebraska History Museum will reopen April ...

Frederick Douglass descendant visits NSHS and meets a piece of his ancestor

Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great- great-grandson of Booker T. Washington, visited the Nebraska State Historical ...

Marker Monday: Early Irrigation in Cheyenne County

On June 1, 1926, George A. Coulter completed one of the first four irrigation wells in Cheyenne County, among the earliest in western Nebraska, on his farm just south of ...

Marker Monday: Spring Ranche

  Location: Road 307, Glenvil, Clay County, Nebraska; 40.437409, -98.24033 Marker Text: The original Spring Ranche, located two miles south of here on the north ...

Flashback Friday: Nebraska’s Good Roads Movement

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link and a road is a little better than its deepest mud hole.” – Isaac B. Potter, The Gospel of Good Roads, 1981 A car with a ...

Flashback Friday: Highway Archeology Employee Spotlight

We’re introducing a new feature of our blog called “Employee Spotlight.” Four times a year, we’ll interview a NSHS employee and showcase their projects and explain the ...

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