History in Nebraska

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

A miniature baseball stadium honoring Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, home of the College World Series from 1950-2010.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.