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Across the Spectrum

Across the Spectrum provides an extensive searchable digital archive of John G. Neihardt's collected letters along with previously uncollected essays and reviews.

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Army Officers' Wives

Army Officers' Wives narratives, photographs, commentary, and documents tell the significance of the experience of Army officers' wives on the Great Plains.

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Birds of Nebraska

Birds of Nebraska is an archive of history for birdlife in the state, with access to a great variety of newspaper articles and other sources from 1854 to 1923.

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Broken Bow Land Office Homestead Records

This project seeks to preserve and provide wider access to the information stored in microfilm from the Broken Bow Land Office.

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Cartas a la Familia

Cartas a la Familia / The Family Letters preserves, digitizes, and analyzes the correspondence of a Mexican American family that migrated from Zacatecas, Mexico.

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Cornhusker Marching Band History

Since its formation in 1879, through multiple names and uniforms and purposes, the marching band's history has been intertwined with a larger community.

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Digging In

A prototype web site for research on Nebraska's immigrant trails, Digging In features the site report from a 2005 dig at the Beaver Creek Trail Crossing Site.

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Elia Peattie

A digital archive based on the life and writings of Elia Peattie, an early Nebraska journalist, novelist, and playwright.

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Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project

This project is a space for telling the stories of the American Indian children who attended Genoa, their communities, and their descendants.

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Gilded Age Plains City

Gilded Age Plains City is a walk through the complex political, social, and cultural terrain of Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Great Plains During World War II

The Great Plains During World War II explores civilian and military life in the Great Plains from September 1939 to August 1945.

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History Harvest

The History Harvest is an open, digital archive of historical artifacts gathered from communities across the United States.

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Loren Eiseley's Nebraska

This project focuses on Loren Eiseley, a writer and anthropologist who spent his formative years in Nebraska.

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Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

This website makes available the text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton.

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Mari Sandoz Digital Archive

The Mari Sandoz Digital Archive will be a freely available web resource devoted to the work of one of Nebraska's most notable novelists and historians.

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Nebraska Authors

Nebraska Authors celebrates individual writers and the community of Nebraska authors.

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Nebraska Newspapers

Nebraska Newspapers expands upon work in Chronicling America by presenting other historically significant newspapers from Nebraska.

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Nebraska Public Documents

Nebraska Public Documents provides free public access to digitized historic annual reports of state agencies in Nebraska

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Nebraska Stories of Humanity

This project aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators of Nazi camps in a collection of searchable stories in aggregate.

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Nebraskaland Magazine Digital Archive

This digital archive allows you to browse the pages of Nebraska's favorite hunting, fishing, and conservation magazine.

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Omaha Indian Heritage

This project is an online catalogue of tribal resources drawn from international sources.

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Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary

Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary is an important step toward preserving the endangered languages of the Omaha and Ponca tribes.

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Omaha Language Learning

Omaha Language Learning website provides access to Omaha language materials, both old and new. It promotes the Omaha language, culture, and community.

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Petitioning for Freedom

This project plans to document the use of habeas corpus by creating a relational database of writ of civil habeas corpus petitions in the American West from 1812 through 1924.

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Plains Humanities Alliance

Plains Humanities Alliance is dedicated to preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Great Plains region.

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Poetry from the Plains

Poetry from the Plains features poetry that explores topics central to Nebraskans and other residents of the Great Plains.

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Prairie States Forestry Project Digital Archive

This digital archive documents the tree-planting efforts associated with the New Deal's massive Prairie States Forestry Project between 1935 and 1942.

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Quills & Feathers

Quills & Feathers project is a documentation of the literary relationship between Great Plains humans and birds.

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Railroads and the Making of Modern America

This project explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads.

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Trans-Mississippi

Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition Digital Archive captures the ambitions, controversies, criticisms, cultural attitudes, and technologies of the 1890s.

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The Willa Cather Archive

The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings.

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The William F. Cody Archive

The William F. Cody Archive provides an invaluable record of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American national development.