Nebraska State Historical Society

Photo: NSHS RG2341-0-420

By the 1890s South Omaha had a reputation as a rough, violent place. But Omaha World-Herald columnist Elia Peattie saw something else:<...

Some of you may have noticed that we have a new way to search our collections online – through a database called ArchivesSpace. The Nebraska State Historical Society staff has tagged collections by the names of people, places, and topics so you can browse in different ways and make new connections. ArchivesSpace catalogs all our archival collections and describes them so you ...

The Indy Room at the Museum of American Speed

Nestled in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Museum of American Speed is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the people, machines, and innovations that shaped America’s rich automotive and racing history...

Here at the Nebraska State Historical Society Archives, staff receive questions and requests for information on a wide variety of topics. We recently received a request for information from the Bix Beiderbecke Museum & Archives in Davenport, Iowa. While going through their collection, the...

The 100th longitudinal line west of Greenwich was the major goal set by Congress in building the first transcontinental railroad. Construction of the Union Pacific track reached the Meridian on October 5, 1866. To celebrate this record-breaking achievement against terrific odds, appropriate ceremonies were enacted on this ground on October 26, 1866...