Burial grounds are scattered across Douglas County — downtown, near downtown, on the Nebraska Medical Center campus, near the Field Club and s…
Nothing remains of the cabins, stables and Pony Express station where the Nebraska City brothers planted roots in 1859 rather than continue to…
The fame of Curo Springs was so far-reaching that in pioneer days — every fall and spring — people from 100 miles away (some crossing the Miss…
Denim overalls are the featured attraction at an exhibit by the Table Rock Historical Society. Open houses for the exhibit are scheduled on Se…
Fritz Olenberger simply wanted to see if the internet had anything to say about his dad or their first house here. What he found, however, was…
Instead of covering our noses and mouths with a mask, we were donning our special glasses to see the eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
As the government makes long-awaited strides in unveiling the untold history of Indian Boarding Schools, researchers in Nebraska are hopeful i…
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Thirty-four years ago today, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting president to visit western Nebraska since Harry Truman rode through on a t…
A new roof was installed two years ago, and the original windows and lap siding of the wood-sided, 33-room structure founded by Dr. Susan La F…
Should Gov. Andrew Cuomo resign or be impeached, Hamburg's Kathy Hochul would become the 57th governor of New York and, as frequently mentione…
Prolific Western author Ernest Haycox Sr., whose 1936-37 historical novel “Trouble Shooter” was the basis of DeMille’s film, had read the unpu…
Its 1939 release set North Platte on its ear, not to mention Omaha and other towns on the first transcontinental railroad line.
It took $87,500 and more than 31,000 volunteer hours of scraping, sanding, buffing and painting to restore the EC-135C — once a mainstay of th…
Twenty-seven years ago today, Lyle and Dianne Fleharty of Hastings hit a $50.1 million lottery jackpot — the first Powerball jackpot won in Nebraska.
It was soon after Nov. 9, 1866, the day North Platte’s first store (Peniston & Miller) opened for business, that the railroad made its way…
An Omaha real estate firm had the idea in the heyday of the '20s that it could sell 1,500 cottage lots platted away from the lakes and the Pla…
The press release stated a lack of actors and shortage of time to write scripts as the reasons for the cancellation.
"We publish original historical scholarship and we also publish books like this," said David Bristow, an editor at Nebraska History. "We recog…
In the pre-digital photography era, it's a near miracle anyone took pictures of tornadoes. Fortunately they did, and today we can marvel at th…
The Union Pacific Railroad provided the livelihood for a good number of early North Platte citizens.
Conagra wasn't the first or the last time that Omaha's corporate powers have flexed their muscles to shape downtown. But the effort stands out…
Although Charles Starkweather had no last words just before execution, the deputy warden said that, when prison officials went to fetch Starkw…
Earlier this month, a portion of Nebraska 22, between Genoa and Fullerton, was designated to commemorate the Native American warriors who used…
Omaha, Douglas County and a community group will unveil a historical marker outside the Douglas County Courthouse, where a Black man was lynch…
Omahans during World War II knew a strong-swimming, shark-defying “human tugboat” of a hero when they saw one, regardless of the color of Char…
On June 13, 1921, the South Platte bridge collapsed. The South Platte River, which often seems more like a creek, has produced the city’s most…
Nebraska’s centennial year of 1967 was a year the state and its infant tourism industry had prepared for the entire decade.
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