With a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, working with scholars from the College of Law, are launching a teaching, research and collaboration hub that will position Nebraska as a national leader in education and scholarship focused on the relationship between U.S. law and race in American history. The project will help students and the public understand how marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their rights. The project features an entry-level, team-taught course — the first of its kind at the university — and an open educational repository of digital and legal research tools, developed in collaboration with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
