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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marker Monday: Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Robinson
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Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years ...
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 ...
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 ...
