Below are links to selected articles from past issues of Nebraska History. Each article appears in full-text, PDF format. We plan to add many more articles as they are scanned.
Many of the articles below are winners of the James L. Sellers Memorial Award, given annually to the "best article" published in a volume of Nebraska History, as chosen by a panel judges from a Nebraska college or university history department that is not represented by an article in the judging pool.
Melissa Marsh, "Still the Old Marlene: Hollywood at the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp," Summer/Fall 2005.
Gregory Bond, "'Too Much Dirty Work,' Race, Manliness, and Baseball in Gilded Age Nebraska," Winter 2004.
Randolph W. Baxter, "Homo-Hunting' in the Early Cold War: Senator Kenneth Wherry and the Homophobic Side of McCarthyism," Fall 2003.
Harl A. Dalstrom, "I'm Never Going to Be Snowbound Again: The Winter of 1948-1949 in Nebraska," Fall/Winter 2002.
Timothy R Mahoney, "The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of the Gilded Age in Lincoln," Winter 2001.
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of You Do?" Child Labor on Nebraska Farms, 1870-1920, Spring 2001
Patricia C Gaster, "From Brownville to Bryan, Journalist James D Calhoun in Nebraska, 1869-1894," Fall 2000Mark Smith, "Karl Stefan, WJAG and the Congressional Campaign of 1934," Summer 2000.
James E Potter, "First Nebraska's Orphan Detachment and the Skirmish at Grand Prairie, 1864," Spring 2000
Francis Moul, "The Biggest Partner: The Federal Government and Sioux County, Nebraska," Winter 1999.
Patricia C Gaster, "Rosa Hudspeth and the Stuart Ledger, 1901-1907," Winter 1998
Joseph Agonito, "Young Man Afraid of His Horses: The Reservation Years," Fall 1998.
Patricia C Gaster, "Bix in Nebraska: A L Bixby and the 'Daily Drift,'" Summer 1997
Thomas R Buecker, "'The Men Behaved Splendidly' Guy V Henry's Famous Cavalry Rides," Summer 1997
Mary Cochran Grimes, "Books for Nebraska: Roy & Aileen Cochran and the Nebraska Public Library Commission," Fall 1997.
Jerome A Greene [Editor], "Chasing Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse: Two Fourteenth U S Infantry Diaries of the Great Sioux War," Winter 1997
John D McDermott, "Were They Really Rogues? Desertion in the Nineteenth Century U S Army," Winter 1997
Frank N Schubert, "Ten Troopers: Buffalo Soldier Medal of Honor Men Who Served at Fort Robinson," Winter 1997
Julie Greene, "The Making of Labor's Democracy: William Jennings Bryan, The American Federation of Labor, and Progressive Era Politics," Fall/Winter 1996.
This is a special V-J Day edition, Volume 76, Number 2 and 3, Summer/Fall, 1995:
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- Table of Contents and Covers
- Richard O Joyce with Samuel Van Pelt, "'You Bet I Was Scared': A Doolittle Raider Remembers"
- Frederick T Daly, "Nebraska-Related Names of United States Navy Ships"
- Patricia Gaster, Harold W. Bauer
- Beverly Russell, "World War II Boomtown: Hastings and the Naval Ammunition Depot"
- W Raymond Wood, "Or Go Down in Flame: A Navigator's Death Over Schweinfurt"
- Douglas R Hartman, "Lawrence W Youngman: War Correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald"
- Michele L Fagan, "Overseas With the ANC: Experiences of Nebraska Nurses in World War II"
- Alex Meyer, "Karl Timmermann: From Pebble Creek to the Rhine"
- Robert Hurst, "Nebraska Army Air Fields, A Pictorial Review"
Kinglsey M Bray, "Teton Sioux: Population History, 1655-1881," Summer 1994.
The Czech-American Experience Volume 74, Number 3 and 4, Fall / Winter 1993:
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- Table of Contents / Foreword by Lawrence J. Sommer / Introduction by Bruce Garver
- Joseph G Svoboda, "Czech-Americans: The Love of Liberty"
- Josef Opatrny, "Problems in the History of Czech Immigration to America in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century"
- Gregory C Ference, "Slovak Immigration to the United States in Light of American, Czech, and Slovak History"
- Lawrence H Konecny and Clinton Machann, "German and Czech Immigration to Texas: The Bremen to Galveston Route, 1880-1886"
- Zdenek Solle, "Czech Political Refugees in the United States during the Nineteenth Century"
- Bruce M Garver, "Czech-American Protestants: A Minority within a Minority"
- David Murphy, "Dramatic Expressions: Czech Theatre Curtains in Nebraska"
- Clinton Machann, "Evidence of Assimilation in Pavel Albieri's Nevesta za padesat dollaru (Bride for Fifty Dollars)"
- Karel Pichlik, "Relationships between Czechs and Slovaks in the United States during the First World War"
- Ivan Dubovicky, "Czech-Americans: An Ethnic Dilemma"
- Mila Saskova-Pierce, "Czech-Language Maintenance in Nebraska"
- Frederick C Luebke, "Czech-American Immigration: Some Historiographical Observations"
- Acknowledgments
Daniel W Overton, "Spending the Indians' Money: A Quantitative Case Study of Oto-Missouri Trust Fund Disbursements, 1855-1881," Summer 1993.
Wilma A Daddario, "'They Get Milk Practically Every Day': The Genoa Indian Industrial School, 1884-1934," Spring 1992.
'What Did You Do in the War?' Volume 72, Number 4, Winter, 1991:
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- Introduction, Table of Contents, Covers
- December 7, 1941
- Joining Up
- The Home Front
- The Battlefront
- Two Presidents
- The Bomb
- Victory!
- Reflection
- Index of Interviewees
- World War II Research Collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society
Carol Gendler, "The Industrial Removal Office and the Settlement of Jews in Nebraska, 1901-1917," Fall 1991.
Frederick C Luebke, "Tiemann , Taxes, and the Centennial Legislature of 1967: Beginning Nebraska's Second Century," Fall 1990.
Dennis N Mihelich, "The Lincoln Urban League: The Travail of Depression and War," Winter 1989.
James B Potts, "Nebraska Statehood and Reconstruction," Summer 1988.
Patricia C Gaster, "Nebraska Newspaperman Will M Maupin," Winter 1988
Frederick C Luebke, "Time, Place, and Culture in Nebraska History," Winter 1988
Orville D Menard, "Tom Dennison, The Omaha Bee, and the 1919 Omaha Race Riot," Winter 1987.
Ann L Wilhite, "Cities and Colleges in the Promised Land: Territorial Nebraska, 1854-1867," Winter 1986.
Kingsley M Bray, "Lone Horn's Peace: A New View of Sioux-Crow Relations, 1851-1858," Spring 1985.
Edward A Godeken, "The Dawes-Pershing Relationship During World War I," Spring 1984.
Paul Schach, "German-Language Newspapers in Nebraska, 1860-1890," Spring 1984
Reynold M Wik, "Nebraska Tractor Shows, 1913-1919, and the Beginning of Power Farming," Summer 1983.
Tommy R Thompson, "The Great Omaha Train Robbery," Summer 1982.
Orville H Zabel, "History in Stone: The Story in Sculpture on the Exterior of the Nebraska Capitol," Fall 1981.
Arthur Bud Ogle, "Above the World: William Jennings Bryan's View of the American Nation in International Affairs," Summer 1980
Dennis N Mihelich, "World War II and the Transformation of the Omaha Urban League," Fall 1979
Anne Polk Diffendal, "A Centennial History of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 1878-1978," Fall 1978
John Kyle Davis, "The Gray Wolf: Tom Dennison of Omaha," Spring 1977
Charles E Hanson Jr and Veronica Sue Walters, "The Early Fur Trade in Northwestern Nebraska," Fall, 1976
David Wagaman, "The Industrial Workers of the World in Nebraska, 1914-1920," Fall 1975
Robert B Casari, "The Aviation Corps of the Nebraska National Guard, 1915-1917," Spring 1975.
Earl F Stover, "Chaplain Henry V Plummer, His Ministry and His Court-Martial," Spring 1975
Eric S McCready, "The Nebraska State Capitol: Its Design, Background and Influence," Fall 1974
Oliver Knight, "War or Peace: The Anxious Wait for Crazy Horse," Winter 1973
Louise E Rickard, "The Politics of Reform in Omaha, 1918-1921," Winter 1972
Robert A Trennert Jr., "The Mormons and the Office of Indian Affairs: The Conflict Over Winter Quarters, 1846-1848," Fall 1972
Lila Gravatt Schrimsher, "The Diaries and Writings of George A Maston, Black Citizen of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1901-1913," Summer 1971
Thomas R Walsh, "Charles E Bessey and the Transformation of the Industrial College," Winter 1971
John G Bitzes, "The Anti-Greek Riot of 1909 --South Omaha," Summer 1970
James T King, "A Better Way: General George Crook and the Ponca Indians," Fall 1969
Everett N Dick, "Water, A Frontier Problem," Fall 1968
John T Schlebecker, "Agriculture in Western Nebraska, 1906-1966," Fall 1967
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