Women’s Rights and the Saucy Mrs. Adams
Speaker: Jessica Downing-Ford, Chautauqua Scholar Five years after Abigail Smith married John Adams, the American colonies adopted the British law of coverture. This law held that no female person had […]
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Picture Cave: Finding the Divine Within
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Taylor Keen Picture Cave is a 1,300 year old rock art site approximately 60 miles south of present day St. Louis and the former city of Cahokia. Picture Cave […]
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America 250 Homestead Days
Homestead National Historic Park 8523 West State Highway 4, Beatrice, NE, United StatesHomestead National Historical Park is hosting a full weekend of free activities, demonstrations, and performances that allow visitors to explore how the ideals and hopes of the American Revolution continued […]
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The Origins of American Cowboy Culture
Speaker: Angel Vigil, Chautauqua scholar Why are there rodeos? Why are there cowboys? Why are there horses in America? Where did the word cowboy come from? The Stetson cowboy hat? […]
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“Do Good Women Want This Kind of Freedom?” Nebraska and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Dr. Catherine Biba, Associate Professor of History at Hastings College When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 granting women the right to vote across the country, it marked […]
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Japanese-Americans in Nebraska
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Vickie Schaepler, Coordinator of the Japanese Hall and History Project at Legacy of the Plains Museum in Gering, Nebraska Faced by laws targeting only Asians, Japanese Immigrants began to […]
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But, Who Lived Here in 1491? Indigenous Archaeology in Nebraska
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Rob Bozell, Retired State Archeologist Rob Bozell takes viewers back to the 15th Century, when Nebraska was populated only by Indigenous peoples. Learn their stories from their perspectives. (Concurrent […]
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Lewis and Clark: What Was Their Value Worth? – Seaman, York, Sacagawea, & Pomp Stories
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Renae Hunt, scholar/educator The Corps of Discovery was a fascinating group of individuals. But there were four members of the corps that were “valuable” but not paid. Hunt discusses […]
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“We ought to go back to the place we came from in the end”: Nebraska’s Literary History
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Dr. Nathan Tye is the Associate Professor of Nebraska and American West History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney Writers, like sandhill cranes, return to Nebraska for inspiration […]
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Nebraska: Weaving a State
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Sara Crook, professor emerita of political science and history, Peru State College This session will discuss the history and politics of Nebraska’s admittance as the 37th state in the […]
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An Evening with Abigail Adams
French Memorial Chapel Hastings College, Hastings, NE, United StatesAbigail Adams played an important role in the founding of this nation. She and her husband, John Adams, were intellectual equals who discussed the complex issues of founding a nation together. She wrote him many […]
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An Evening with Chief Big Elk
French Memorial Chapel Hastings College, Hastings, NE, United StatesBig Elk was chief of the Omaha Tribe during the 1800s. As the expanding U.S. threatened First Peoples, he sought ways to protect his tribe and their culture from obliteration. […]
