Thayer, John M.
John M. Thayer (1820-1906), Nebraska plainsman, soldier, legislator, and chief executive, was interviewed in old age by the Omaha World-Herald about his Civil War ...
Robert W. Furnas
What We Found
Morton’s The Conservative
The first issue of The Conservative, "A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Discussion of Political, Economic and Sociological Questions," was issued from the new office of ...
Nebraska As It Was, Is, and Will Be, by J. Garside
The first issue of Robert W. Furnas's Nebraska Farmer was published in October of 1859 in Brownville. Furnas (who had established the Nebraska Advertiser, also at ...
The Nebraska Farmer’s First Issue
The first issue of Robert W. Furnas's Nebraska Farmer was published in Brownville in October of 1859, eight years before Nebraska Territory became a state. Furnas (who ...
Nebraska Territorial Fair Premiums
Robert W. Furnas, editor of the Nebraska Farmer, in its March 1860 issue, apologized to premium winners from the first Nebraska territorial fair, held at Nebraska City ...
Fossils
Nebraska has an almost uninterrupted fossil record of the past thirty-five million years, roughly half the time since dinosaurs became extinct. Fossilized remains of ...
Coffee Substitutes Include Carrots, Okra
The scarcity of certain foods in early Nebraska encouraged the use of substitutes. Coffee, for example, was sometimes replaced or extended with such foods as dried ...
Confederate Corn
Robert W. Furnas, in addition to service as Nebraska governor (1873-75) and as a founder of the State Historical Society (1878), was a tireless promoter of agriculture. ...
Brownville, 1859
Brownville in 1859 was a small but growing settlement on the Missouri River in Nemaha County. One of the town's early settlers, journalist and agriculturist Robert W. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Brainerd and Furnas at the Fair
H. A. Brainerd. From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska (1888).
In 1926 journalist and Nebraska press historian Henry Allen Brainerd ...
NSHS Awards 2015
Last Friday was the Nebraska State Historical Society's 137th Annual Meeting and its annual award luncheon. We were thrilled to celebrate the year with a packed room ...
NSHS 2016 Awards Luncheon Results
Guests gather for the NSHS 2016 Annual Awards Luncheon.
Nebraska “history makers” gathered for the Nebraska State Historical Society awards luncheon ...
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