Celebrate Women's History Month with a special online event featuring members of the HN Speakers Bureau. Deb Carpenter-Nolting and Lyn Messersmith will present their popular program, "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History." Enjoy stories, songs, and poems about women who left footprints on history by stepping out of place. If you’ve never heard of Helga Estby, […]
Celebrate National Library Week with a special online event featuring a member of the HN Speakers Bureau. Jim McKee will present, "The Amazing Library of Thomas Jefferson Kirkpatrick." Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, longtime resident of Bethany (now a neighborhood in Lincoln), was a bibliomaniac. This college professor began with a solid collection of rare books inherited […]
Celebrate the installation of Willa Cather's statue in National Statuary Hall (2023) with a special online event featuring a member of the HN Speakers Bureau. Cather historian Andrew Jewell will present “Willa Cather’s Life in Letters." Drawing on his experience co-editing the first book of Cather’s letters, this talk explores the way Cather used letters […]
Join us online for a special Curiosity Connections with Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason in conversation with Nebraska rock musician Jay Hanson. Register for a Zoom link at Eventbrite. Poetry is often seen as a formal, intellectual thing when it's actually rooted in daily life and experiences. There was nothing formal about Coleridge enlisting in […]
Register here! Jose Garcia and Linda Garcia-Perez will join us for a special Curiosity Connections in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. José and Linda Garcia will open the journal of their lives in the United States for in-depth look at what it's like to be members of one of the nation's fastest growing minority populations. […]
Special thanks to Beth & Kelvin Whited for funding this event! In cooperation with Humanities Kansas, Humanities Nebraska presents "Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains." Join us via Zoom for a conversation with Angela Bates of the Nicodemus Historical Society (Kansas) and Denise Scale, of the Descendants of DeWitty (Nebraska). They will discuss these two […]
Join Humanities Nebraska, the Empowerment Network, and Revive! Omaha as we celebrate Nebraska women who have made a significant impact in the world of athletics. Panelists will include: Diane Mendenhall, president of the Omaha Supernovas professional volleyball team Maurtice Ivy, basketball star and founder/CEO of Ivy League Youth Sports Academy Moderated by Kimberly Thomas, executive director […]
