City of Crete and Hebron named Nebraska Certified Local Governments
The Nebraska State Historical Society is pleased to announce that the National Park Service has designated the City of Crete and Hebron as Certified Local ...
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The Great Sheedy Murder Trial of 1891
It was Lincoln’s most sensational criminal trial of the nineteenth century. But as historian Timothy Mahoney argues, the Sheedy case was more than just a sordid tale of ...
Buffalo Bill in the Nebraska Legislature
Buffalo Bill at age thirty-five. (RG3004-12)
Many of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody's exploits as a buffalo hunter, scout, and showman have been publicized ...
How ‘Equality Before the Law’ became our state motto
By David L. Bristow, Editor
In another post, we looked at Nebraska’s territorial seal. Here is the more familiar state seal, likewise shown on ...
Marker Monday: Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, four-star general in the U.S. Army, was born in Platte Center, Nebraska, on March 3, 1899, to Christian and Mary Shea ...
G.I. Josephine
Editor's note, March 2025: "G.I. Josephine" Ruth Diamond Levinson's army jacket is currently displayed in the "Nebraska Unwrapped" exhibit at the Nebraska History ...
Marker Monday: Sandhill Cranes
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The Big Bend of the Platte River in central Nebraska is one of the most important staging areas for the spring migration of the world’s largest ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful ...
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Native American Woman Physician
If you could travel back in time to October 3, 1910, you might see Dr. Picotte opening the door to welcome White Horse, in need of advice on building a new house, or ...
Two daring rescues of children from the path of a speeding train
George Poell looked out the locomotive’s window as soon as he felt the pull of the emergency brakes. A small child was wandering along the tracks, and the train was ...
Conserving an Artist’s Legacy
The Ford Conservation Center's Painting Lab recently completed the treatment of two oil paintings by Theodosia “Theo” Coie. The paintings date to the early 1900s and had ...
Marker Monday: Bess Streeter Aldrich
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“Love is more like a light that you carry .... that is what love is to a woman - a lantern in her hand,” says Abbie Deal the courageous heroine in Bess ...
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