Throwback Thursday Photo, Fort Niobrara K Troop Kitchen
Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features an exciting new addition recently donated to the NSHS Photograph Archives. Taken in about 1903, Private Zriny, Private ...
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What We Found
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 ...
The Three Burials of Emmet Crawford
Captain Emmet Crawford, the namesake of Crawford, Nebraska, had quite the interesting burial experience. Or shall we say experiences?
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Scenes From Nebraska’s World War I Experience
World War I had a massive impact on every state in the Union, and Nebraska was no exception. This video, produced after the war, shows some of Nebraska's World War I ...
The gravestones with no names
This headstone once bore a child’s name, but it has been chiseled off. All other markers in the cemetery are likewise erased. Where is it?
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The Army’s Best Horsemen, 1940
“Thru These Portals Pass the Army’s Best Horsemen,” reads a sign above a barracks doorway at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. But one doesn’t train a horse without some, ah, ...
Pershing the Martinet
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Was Gen. John J. Pershing a ruthless martinet or a man whose dignified military bearing inspired respect and even adoration? Opinions ...
Gabriel Field—The Face of a Soldier
By Patricia C. Gaster, Assistant Editor
This article first appeared in the January-February-March 2010 issue of Nebraska History News, published by the ...
How Nebraskans Salute the Flag – A Brief History
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor (April 2016)
"Shame on the men on the cover Vol. 92 No. 3. No one except the man on the back cover, middle bottom, ...
Shelton Farm Girl Remembers the WWII North Platte Canteen
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
The North Platte Canteen served over six million World War II service men and women traveling on the Union Pacific railroad between ...
Dr. Charles Arnold’s Helmet
With one look at this helmet, you know it has a story to tell. Fortunately, it has a happy ending.
This helmet belonged to Dr. Charles H. Arnold. Arnold ...
Nebraskans Held Captive In North Korea
In January of 1968 the USS Pueblo, a navy vessel on an intelligence mission off the coast of North Korea, was attacked and captured by North Korean forces. One sailor ...
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