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World War I
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Wahoo in World War I: The Photographs of Arthur L. Anderson
World War I began in Europe with a chain of events arising from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. They were killed in Sarajevo on ...
Fred Pickering, a World War I Doughboy from Ulysses
New recruits at the Saunders County Courthouse in Wahoo, ready to depart for Camp Funston, Kansas. Like Fred Pickering, many Nebraska soldiers received training at Camp ...
Memorial Stadium’s Roots in World War I
Postcard depicting Memorial Stadium from March 15, 1934. [RG2133.PH000012-000199]
Memorial Stadium on the University of Nebraska campus in ...
The Nebraska State Capitol’s Roots in World War I
Lowering the stone into place at the cornerstone ceremony of the third Nebraska State Capitol on November 11, 1922. RG1234-71-84
The Armistice marking the ...
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and the sinking of the Lusitania
President Woodrow Wilson and hist cabinet, 1913. Bryan is seated front right. NSHS RG3198.PH49-5
May 7 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the sinking ...
Flashback Friday: How Hall County WWI Doughboys Communicated with the Home Front
"If there is one thing the German fears more than anything else it is the bayonet charge," wrote an employee of the Keystone View Company as part of a little essay on ...
Reader Response to Hall County Doughboys article
We had a reader response to “The Best War I Ever Expect to Have: Hall County Doughboys’ Letters Home” by Daryl Webb, which ran in the Spring 2016 edition of Nebraska ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Wings Over Nebraska
Wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photographs
Wings Over Nebraska by Vince Goeres is now available at Amazon Prime.
Did you know Charles ...
Inherent Vice
Imagine being responsible for a museum collection and coming across an artifact that appears to be melting before your eyes! That is exactly what happened at the Ford ...
Women of the Great War: WWI Posters
By David L. Bristow, Editor
World War I was fought not only with weapons but also with pictures and words. After the United States declared war on Germany in April ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Doughboy’s Goodbye
A long kiss goodbye. Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph captures an American doughboy saying goodbye to his girl in Lincoln, Nebraska on September 5, ...
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