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 ...
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Marker Monday: The Watson Ranch
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In 1888, H. D. Watson established the historic Watson Ranch, at one time containing 8,000 acres, reaching from the fertile Platte Valley 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. ...
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 ...
How a coat once buried in a German backyard made it to Nebraska
Today is National Holocaust Remembrance Day. While the Holocaust might seem many decades and thousands of miles from Nebraska, we preserve objects and memories so people ...
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 ...
Marker Monday Encore: “Haumann Sisters: Lost in the Sandhills”
Six generations of the Haumann family attended the marker dedicaiton in Thedford on Sunday, May 1, 2016. From left to right: Alan & wife Ronda Haumann, Shari and ...
Marker Monday Encore: Omaha Central Students Restore Historical Markers
Left to right: Omaha Central Social Studies teacher Gary Groff with students Maddie Badura and Micah Martin
In the fall of 2015, several students ...
Bridges Sesquicentennial Photo Exhibit Winners Announced
Announcing winners of the Statewide Photography Call “Bridges: Sharing Our Past to Enrich the Future.” Photos to be featured in a Bridges Sesquicentennial Photo Exhibit ...
Fremont Man Visits All of Nebraska’s 500-plus Historical Markers
Butch Springgate is the grand champion of Nebraska’s biggest scavenger hunt. If you’ve driven on a Nebraska highway, you’ve even played it. But while you might have ...
Marker Monday: B-24J Bomber Crash in Deuel County, 1944
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During World War II Nebraska was home to eleven air bases, which filled the sky with planes engaged in training aircrews. On June 7, 1944, ...
Marker Monday: German P.O.W. Camp
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a small marker that tells a big story: the ...
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