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Reader Response to Hall County Doughboys article

We had a reader response to “The Best War I Ever Expect to Have: Hall County Doughboys’ Letters Home” by Daryl Webb, which ran in the Spring 2016 edition of Nebraska ...

Flashback Friday: How Hall County WWI Doughboys Communicated with the Home Front

"If there is one thing the German fears more than anything else it is the bayonet charge," wrote an employee of the Keystone View Company as part of a little essay on ...

Brown Bag Lecture: The Job of an Archivist: Meeting a Fascinating Nebraskan, Frank Shoemaker

The Nebraska State Historical Society's Brown Bag History Forum returns to the Nebraska History Museum, Centennial Mall at P Street, this Thursday, April 21 at 12 noon. ...

Marker Monday: Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

Marker Text Willa Cather first came to Webster County from Virginia in 1883 at the age of nine. The vast open prairies of Nebraska made a lasting impression on ...

Flashback Friday: Why Cowboy Gun Battles Were Often Shots in the Dark

Sidney, Nebraska, circa late 1870s. NSHS RG3315-40   Associate Editor and black powder enthusiast Jim Potter wrote this blog post. One staple of TV or movie ...

Flashback Friday: Would J. Sterling Morton have sacrificed his grandmother for political gain?

In honor of Arbor Day, Nebraska History associate editor Jim Potter examines part of  the political career of Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton. Some dramatic anti-J. ...

Flashback Friday: Why Small-town Rodeos are One of Nebraska’s Greatest Treasures

By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor I have ridden a horse maybe three times in my life. I don’t know how to throw a rope. I have been head-butted, stepped on, ...

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