Scopes Wasn’t the First: Nebraska’s 1924 Anti-Evolution Trial
Nebraska had its own anti-evolution trial nearly seven months before the famous Scopes trial opened in Tennessee. “Darwin and Genesis fought out a battle in District ...
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What We Found
What have we been doing all year?
If you want the lowdown on what the Nebraska State Historical Society has accomplished in the past year, our Annual Report is now online.
By "past year" we mean the ...
The Santa Claus Survey, a Study in Child Psychology
Promotional button with picture of Santa Claus and slogan “Meet Me at Herpolsheimer’s,” a department store. NSHS 11571-32
In the fall of 1895 Frances E. Duncombe, a ...
“Grandma Gabel, she brought Ralph”: Midwifery and the Lincoln Health Department
By the early 20th century, most Anglo-American women had a physician present at births. However, many rural, minority, or immigrant groups such as the Volga Germans ...
Holiday Greetings and a Free Show
This crowd in front of the Husker Theater at 1444 O Street in Lincoln was treated to a free holiday show on December 24, 1948. Although the Husker’s ...
Lovers and Guinea Pigs in the Old State Capitol
When the third and present capitol was built, the second was temporarily left in place and the new one, completed in 1932, was begun around it. ...
Nebraska’s Bones
Erwin Barbour’s family was very interested in old bones! From discovery to display, the family was a central part of Nebraska paleontology, expanding knowledge of the ...
Previous Blog Posts Restored!
Blog posts from 2010-2013 are once again up and searchable! After our server was ruined by an electrical storm, posts from earlier than June 2013 were temporarily lost. ...
“We the People: Nebraska Stories of Civil Rights” Video on YouTube
Check out the NSHS’s new video on YouTube!
During the Nebraska History Museum’s "We the People": The Nebraska Viewpoint exhibit, visitors were invited to tell their ...
Treasures from the Nebraska History Museum in Nebraska History News
George Churley with Stumpy and Deputy Duke, two of the original Cartoon Corral puppets.
Not too long ago, we featured “Treasures from Nebraska Museums” in ...
Nebraska Photographers in Convention
Members of the Nebraska Photographers Association in Lincoln Park on May 14, 1903. NSHS RG2158-549
"Lincoln today and for several days will be in the hands of the ...
Artistry in Butter
These statues, entitled Friends, by J. E. Wallace, were composed of lard. NSHS RG2158-15-1
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, butter art was ...
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