New Archeology at Fort Robinson
Visitors to Fort Robinson State Park (near Nebraska’s northwest corner) see many original structures as well as replicas of important buildings that were torn down ...
Fort Robinson
What We Found
Variety of Enclosed Forts on the Northern Plains
Perhaps the most common question asked of staff at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, is “Where’s the fort?” Visitors who are only familiar with Hollywood depictions of forts are ...
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 ...
Flashback Friday: Dog Soup Party
Dog Soup Party, Pine Ridge Sioux. RG0802.120-82
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
If you search our photo collection for the word “party,” you expect ...
Timeline Tuesday: Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882
Fort Robinson Christmas party. RG1517-85-1
Fort Robinson provides the following holiday story of devotion and courage. It can be found in A Frontier Army ...
Five Ways to Experience the History of Nebraska
#1 Chimney Rock
Feel the awe and curiosity the pioneers experienced when they saw the most famous landmark on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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Throwback Thursday Photo, WAC Gladys Welch
In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, WAC Gladys Welch sits smiling on an Army motorcycle at Fort Robinson. In 1943, a detachment of Woman’s Army Corp (WAC) was ...
NSHS Returns Ponca Remains
The NSHS recently returned its last ancestral Ponca remains to the tribe for reburial. The objects include skeletal remains and funerary objects mostly from the 1700s ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Santa’s Helpers from Fort Robinson, Christmas 1946
Santa is on his way! In today’s #ThrowbackThursday photo, a team of nine huskies pull Santa’s “sleigh” during a 1946 Christmas parade in Crawford, Nebraska. The huskies ...
Marker Monday: Post Headquarters, 1905
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the story of a building we know very well. ...
Marker Monday: 1887 Barracks Row
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today's subject is the Barracks Row at Fort Robinson, built during ...
Bloodshed at Fort Robinson and our newest historical marker
As historians, the names we give to events are important. They imply interpretation but are also matters of consensus. This is a story of the ongoing debate over the ...
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