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Nominees sought for Nebraska State Historical Society awards by March 22, 2010. Seeking Nominations for Furnas, Olson, and Sheldon Awards Annual awards recognize outstanding achievement in preserving, interpreting, and making available the history of Nebraska. Awards will be presented at the Nebraska State Historical Society's Annual Meeting on September 17, 2010. REFERENCE ROOM REOPENS TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH Regular hours remain Tuesday-Friday, 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00; and Saturday, 8:00-5:00. FREE Family Workshop, Celebrating the Irish Culture     Lincoln Irish Dancers will perform at 2:00      Make and take a St. Patrick's Day badge       Learn about Irish customs Sunday, March 14, 2010,  2 - 4 pm Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln. Brown Bag Lecture Series Forum,  "Conservation of Grant Wood's Corn Room Murals at the Gerald Ford Conservation Center"    Presenter: Kenneth Bé, Head of Paintings Conservation, Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center    Schedule: 12 Noon, Thursday, March. 18, 2010. Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln. (PDF flyer) 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.

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.

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.... Twenty Nine articles are posted so far.
  

4 New Nebraska Timeline (Out of Old Nebraska) articles are now available on the website.

     A slice of bread to dwarf the Eiffel Tower.
     Hard times in the 1890s.
     Omaha's public health menace in 1867.
     "More unique and elaborate than ever before."

Gabriel Field - the Face of a Soldier. Of all the ways for a frontier soldier to meet an untimely end, you probably haven't thought of this one. Read the current issue of Nebraska History News

 

Nebraska State Historical Society 2010 Research Grants,

  Call for Applications. Deadline is April 1, 2010.

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

 

 

  Willa Cather Center Spring Conference and Call for Papers

  

Upcoming Events at the John G. Neihardt Center, Bancroft, NE

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.