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Grace and Edith Abbott: Nebraska’s Social Justice Sisters

March 2019 Nebraska Lecture

John Sorensen
Grace Abbott Scholar and friend of the university

March 28, 2019

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Previous Lectures


Building Nebraska U: The Saga of University Hall and the Origins of the Modern University

Nebraska’s Unicameral: Still Progressive after All These Years?

Using Arachnids to Inspire D.R.E.A.M.S.


Our Cather Heritage

The Drone Age is Here, and We’re Screwing It Up

Learning to Read: Making Sense of the Evidence


When “They” Becomes “Me”: Responsibility and Action in Literary Activism: The Case of the African Poetry Book Fund

Guts, Germs and Stainless Steel: Creating Winners and Losers in Food

Making for Innovation


What the Heck is a Higgs boson?

The New Normal: A Brain After Concussion

What Good Are the Humanities, Anyway?


Creating a Kinder World: Empowering Youth to End Bullying

Football: Its Physics and Future

The Joy of Applied Science While Feeding the World


The NCAA: Who, What, When, Where, How and Certainly Why

Managing Drought in a Changing Climate

A Battle for the Children: Indigenous Child Removal in the United States and Australia from 1880-1940


Ready for School, Ready for Life: Creating a Future for All Children

The Dead Sea Scrolls After 60 Years: What Have We Learned

HIV/AIDS Epidemic: What Have We Learned in the Past 28 Years?


I pass so poorly with paper and types: The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age

Bird Brain! Compliment or Insult?

Quilts: Reflections of Trade, Technology and Tradition


Through Layers of Mud and Time: A Long-Term Perspective on Environmental Change

Feeding 9 Billion People and Other Challenges to Agriculture

Genes, Behavior and Politics


What Is It About Pots?

Genes, Greens, and Disease

An Evening with Ted Kooser


Inventing The Great Plains Region

Sampling Lewis and Clark: Selected Readings from the Journals and Discussion of Events in Context

The Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses