• Remember the Ladies: Stitching Together a Revolution

    Morton-James Public Library 923 1st Corso, Nebraska City, NE, United States

    York’s presentation explores the role our founding mothers played in the American Revolution.  The words of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams resonate in the title.  She beseeched her husband to “Remember the Ladies” as he and the Continental Congress created the document that would shape this new democracy.  Women of the time used their cunning, […]

  • I Got the Blues and I Can’t Be Satisfied

    Lincoln City Libraries-Bennett Martin Public Library 136 S. 14th St., Lincoln, NE, United States

    Speaker: CA Waller Sponsored by Lincoln City Libraries

  • Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train

    Calvary Baptist Church - Cambridge 804 Patterson St., Cambridge, NE, United States

    Speaker: Charlotte Endorf Sponsored by the Calvary Baptist Church

  • A Century of Fashion: 1870-1970

    Columbus Community Building 2500 14th St., Columbus, NE, United States

    Speaker: Sue McLain Sponsored by the Friends of the Columbus Public Library

  • Czech Folk Costumes (kroje)

    Homestead National Historic Park 8523 West State Highway 4, Beatrice, NE, United States

    Speaker: Janet Jefferies Sponsored by the Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln

  • The Role of Music During the Holocaust

    Odell Public Library 214 Main St., Odell, NE, United States

    Speaker: Christine Erlander Beard Sponsored by the Odell Public Library

  • Mapping the World, Writing the Self: Desire, Identity, & Global Imagination in Jesuit Missions

    UNO's Milo Bail Student Center (Room 228/226) 6203 University Drive North, Omaha, NE, United States

    What does it mean to long for a distant world so intensely that you petition, in writing, to leave everything behind? How do people learn to narrate themselves? This lecture explores the 25,000 handwritten letters composed between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by Jesuit novices and priests to their Superior General in Rome, seeking assignment […]

  • Nebraska through Song and Story

    Alice M. Farr Public Library 1603 L St., Aurora, NE, United States

    Speaker: Dan Holtz Sponsored by the Friends of the Alice M. Farr Library

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