Peter Kiewit Sons has come a long way from its earliest projects, which included the original Lincoln Hotel at Ninth and P in Lincoln.
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Lincoln has had a number of neighbors in Lancaster County since its birth.
Evelyn Sharp was one of the earliest female pilots in the country.
See the many products developed in Nebraska through the decades.
One man's decade-long literary meditation brought him to the front porch of the most famous literary home in Nebraska. The Los Angeles artist is retyping three Willa Cather novels as part of his 100 Novels Project.
It's not clear how Joseph White Eagle's leggings, clay pipe and eagle feather hand fan ended up with a Boyd County doctor a century ago.
"We publish original historical scholarship and we also publish books like this," said David Bristow, an editor at Nebraska History. "We recognize there’s a range of audiences and a range of interest levels."
Longtime efforts to renovate a second-story Opera House in Friend, retaining a piece of history and creating a new community gathering place, have gained momentum.
See the many products developed in Nebraska through the decades.
The pioneer family moving to the shadow of Chimney Rock was conceived 50 years ago, on a wind-whipped February day in the Sandhills.
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Over 175 years ago, adventurers who wanted to travel west began making their way across the Oregon Trail. According to NebraskaStudies.org, ap…
Jan Gill, great-granddaughter of the original owner of the Upper 96 Ranch near Gothenburg, Nebraska, where the Samuel Machette Pony Express ca…
Recently, a Journal Star reader questioned if Nebraska had ever used the death penalty to take the life of an innocent man ("Question on death…
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AUBURN -- Six-and-a-half miles off the paved highway, down a gravel road -- past the homesteads of some of Nemaha County’s earliest founders -…
Photos of Nebraska’s historical places sought for Nebraska’s 150th birthday celebration
Although Nebraska is most always associated with the crops of wheat, corn and soybeans, with the development of canals and irrigation the stat…
As you drive by the intersection of 26th and O streets today at 35 miles an hour and glance at the northeast corner, you might, for an instant…
Omaha, as most every Nebraskan knows, was for decades the nation’s foremost livestock market and home to the largest meatpackers. But few real…
Almost from its inception, the University of Nebraska offered classes in astronomy. But the development of an actual department and acquisitio…
Even before Nebraska was opened for permanent settlement by becoming a U.S. Territory in 1854, a large number of settlers, federal troops and …
It has been said that the first sign of a new village after a few houses grouped together was a church followed by a blacksmith, general store…
In 1821, long before it was legal to settle west of the Missouri River, Fort Atkinson was designated an official U.S. fort.With its early per…
Seldom are a Methodist minister, an unlicensed physician, a real estate entrepreneur, a town builder and a successful ferry operator the same …
Most of us have an instant memory of Lincoln’s downtown and its department stores and realize that, for all intents and purposes, they no long…
When Ernie Chambers was forced out of the Legislature by term limits in 2009, it was noted by The Associated Press that he was “Nebraska’s lon…