Winter
Nebraska winters and winter weather have furnished ample material for reminiscences by Nebraskans. Territorial settler Clarke Irvine recalled in an account published by ...
Fort Calhoun
What We Found
Irvine in Nebraska Territory in 1855
Clark Irvine arrived in Nebraska Territory in 1855 anxious to take advantage of whatever opportunities existed in a new land. His recollections of early Omaha, ...
Leap Year Masquerade Ball
The old leap day (February 29) custom of women proposing marriage to men is reflected in early Nebraska accounts of dances and parties celebrating past leap days and ...
Lewis and Clark Expedition, Centennial Observances of
Centennial observances by Fort Calhoun residents of the Lewis and Clark expedition's visit to their locality took place during the summer of 1904. The Blair Pilot of ...
They Have Conventions For That?
Recently I’ve been working on the collection of posters and I have to say I’ve been really impressed with what we have. We have intriguing, sometimes frightening, and ...
Scurvy in 19th Century Nebraska
For most modern Americans, the word scurvy holds little weight. To nineteenth-century Americans, however, the word conjured vivid images of misery, suffering, and ...
Marker Monday: The Death of Marshal Suverkrubbe
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on this marker in Fort Calhoun commemorating the only ...
Fort Atkinson Two Bits and Two Insignias
Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Military post west of the Missouri River.
Making change at Fort Atkinson, Nebraska was a lot harder in the 1820s than it is today. ...
Fort Atkinson Council House
Some of the structures at Fort Atkinson State Historical Park have been reconstructed very accurately from data gathered by archeologists from History Nebraska. Three of ...
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