Art in Nebraska
Art in Nebraska has developed rapidly - from Native American to surrealist efforts - in little more than 150 years. Nebraska, A Guide to the Cornhusker State, compiled ...
Engineer Cantonment
What We Found
Special Issue of Nebraska History Investigates Engineer Cantonment
How do you find a historic site that’s been lost for nearly 200 years? Until 2003 no one knew if the 1819-20 winter quarters of the Stephen Long Expedition still ...
What’s inside the “Engineer Cantonment” issue of Nebraska History
The Spring 2018 issue of Nebraska History is devoted to the history and archeology of Engineer Cantonment. The 80-page magazine comes with a membership to the Nebraska ...
How a painting helped archeologists find a lost 200-year-old site
How do you find an archeological site that’s been lost for nearly 200 years? Fifteen years ago, NSHS archeologists made the discovery of a lifetime—and they did it using ...
When science met the coyote
How and why did this coyote end up in this cruel trap?
The coyote was long known to Nebraska’s Native peoples. They understood its intelligence. It’s no accident that ...
Nebraska Archeological Expeditions of…. Expeditions
by Rob Bozell, History Nebraska, State Archeologist
In addition to a world-wide pandemic, social justice protests, murder hornets, western wildfires, and coin ...
When a dragon boat came to Nebraska
Venting steam from its nostrils, the serpent-headed white boat moved mysteriously up the Missouri River without sails or oarsmen.
The boat’s source of power may have ...
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