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. NSHS RG1234-71-84
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, 1917.
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 the back of this stereocard. The card's caption reads, "Learning How to Give the Huns a Taste of American Steel."
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 History. Read Dr. Frank Edler of Lincoln, NE’s response below: First, I'd like to say that I appreciated Webb's article focusing on this issue and discussing the letters of the Nebraska soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces, especially the ones dealing with the reasons for enlisting, the conditions of trench warfare, and the yearnings for returning home.
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and the sinking of the Lusitania
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New Year’s in Paris for a Nebraska Soldier
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Memorial Stadium’s Roots in World War I
More information on Memorial Stadium and its financing is available online in an article from Nebraska History magazine.
Fred Pickering, a World War I Doughboy from Ulysses
Wahoo in World War I: The Photographs of Arthur L. Anderson
Help us identify these World War I photos
The NSHS Library/Archives Reference Staff help researchers from all over Nebraska and the world answer countless history, genealogy and research questions every day. With the vast resources available at NSHS, the answers are seemingly at our fingertips. Sometimes, however, even we the supposed experts get stumped. So, we are asking our blog and Facebook friends for a little help answering a particularly vexing question from one of our patrons.
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