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KIDS CLASSES at the NEBRASKA HISTORY MUSEUM Thursday and Friday, October 28 & 29 Halloween Traditions Making Dolls WWII Arts and Crafts Making Games We grow 'em big in Nebraska! Come see our prize-winning pumpkin, a Nebraska-made Patriot truck, and the fascinating story of Nebraska and agriculture through history at the 4-H Building at the NEW Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island. Now through September 6. Brown Bag Lecture Series Forum, "Presenting Frightmares Since 1958 - A History of Nebraska's Creature Feature Hosts"    Presenter: Dale Bacon (NSHS Photographs, collector of ghost stories)    Schedule: 12 Noon, Thursday, September 16, 2010. Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln. (PDF flyer) NSHS Board of Trustees to Meet 4 New Nebraska Timeline (Out of Old Nebraska) articles are now available on the website.      Beer and blood.      Counting heads in Omaha's third ward.      Motor tramps in auto camps.      Nebraska's Utopian dreamer. We want to remember and to be remembered. Saving Memories exhibit is now online.     Neligh Mill is now open to the public. Hours: 10-12 and 1-5.   Sunday: 1-5. Located in Neligh, Nebraska. Phone: 402-887-4303 for information. Nebraska State Historical Society Sites and Museums offer free admission to military personnel and families through Labor Day as part of  BLUE STAR MUSEUMS program.

Our New Logo Even a historical society likes a new look now and then. After more than twenty years, we're retiring the blue "NSHS" logo in favor of an eye-catching design that better represents what we're all about. Created by graphic artist Amy Ebbeka of Lincoln, the new logo is simultaneously historic and modern. The script font evokes the handwritten word upon which so much of our history is based. The abstract Nebraska shape represents the idea of diverse and overlapping regions that form the whole of the state. The colors are inspired by our previous NSHS colors, our state flag and state flower (goldenrod), and the beige of Nebraska's endless grasslands. The logo was created with the support of the NSHS Foundation, whose staff, board, volunteers, and dollars helped make the project a reality. You'll see the new logo on our publications and on our signage at historic sites around the state. Soon it'll even be part of the Lincoln skyline atop the Museum of Nebraska History. It's part of a larger effort to spread the word about what the Society does and why it matters.

Norfolk Regional Center Cemetery Records, 1888-1954  (pdf)
New record online, valuable to family historians.

 

Nominations to Nebraska Hall of Fame sought

Depression Era Quilts in Nebraska

Exhibit opened Saturday, March 27th, 2010,
at the Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln.

 

Enjoy and reminisce in the "Boy Scouts 100th Anniversary Exhibit"  
What is your history in Scouting?  Come celebrate 100 years of Scouting in Nebraska at the Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln.

Check out the new Probate Records Research at the Nebraska State Historical Society, recently added to the Library/Archives publication series.

 

Researching Your Nebraska Property (pdf)
A "How To" manual for National Register and all other applications.

Read complete Nebraska History articles online!

We're posting award-winning articles from past issues. Read about the brutal winter of 1948-49, the infamous Sheedy murder trial of 1891, or Sen. Ken Wherry's 1950s crusade to rid the government of homosexuals.... Forty articles are posted so far.
  

  
2009 Annual Report now on-line
  (6 megabyte PDF)

 

Wyuka Cemetery Interments, (Lincoln, Ne.) 1877 - Feb. 1881 "Those Who Slumber" (pdf)
These listings predate the Wyuka burial cards.

Help the Nebraska State Historical Society find examples of community buildings, structures, and sites that represent the New Deal in Nebraska. This year marks the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs developed in response to the Great Depression. See this PDF for more information and known examples.

Access the  Nebraska Public Documents  web site, launched in October 2007. It includes reports from 1891 to 1929 and is a keyword searchable collection of digitized historic reports of Nebraska constitutional officers and state agencies.

Nebraska newspapers arranged by town name.
A new index in PDFs will help you find Nebraska newspapers on microfilm.

A New Educators' Resource Guide to the Nebraska History Museum
is now available on the website. (pdf)

Saving Nebraska' s Treasures
Video sneak peeks and workshop segments now available to help you preserve items of importance to you and your community.

Nebraska Studies website 
 Have a look at NEW WWII content.

Check Nebraska National Register Full-Text Nominations (pdf)
More counties nominations are added weekly.