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“No Indians, No Bison, No Covered Wagons, I-80 Sculpture Project Unveiled”
So read a Lincoln Evening Journal headline on July 9, 1975. Nebraska’s proposed I-80 Bicentennial sculpture project was about to erupt in “geysers of controversy” in the words of Sheldon Museum of Art director Norman Geske.
The Madison County Historical Society (MCHS) was founded in 1928 and established a museum in 1966 to prepare for the centennial of Nebraska and of the city of Madison. The MCHS’s founding mission is to collect, preserve, and display objects relating to the county; to promote research and education relating to the cou...
The James E. Potter Research Room is where NSHS members and the public can access items from the Nebraska State Historical Society collections, including books, maps, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and government records. During the pandemic, the Research Room was closed to public access, and when it reopened, hours were very limited. Agency leadership saw ...
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state’s past. Today we’re focusing Culbertson, Nebraska, the original county seat of Hitchcock County.
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Culbertson was the county seat of Hitchcock County for twenty years, and this marks the site of the first courthouse, used 1886-1893. Founded ...
By the time Harriet S. Brooks became a senior founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, she had been promoting women’s right to vote for decades in Michigan and Illinois.
Harriet continued her suffrage activities in Nebraska, contributing numerous articles to the Republican. She was one of the founding members of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Associatio...