Faculty Professor Amy Helene Forss teaches History and Art History at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. She has a PhD in African American History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her first book, Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2014. In 2017, she published Newspapers & Butter Pecan Ice Cream, which is the children’s picture book version of it for 2nd to 4th graders. Omaha Public Schools, Lincoln Public Schools and Boys Town have Newspapers as part of their curriculum studies. Her third book, Borrowing from our Foremothers, a material culture comparison between suffragist and modern feminist visual strategies and artifacts was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2021. Her upcoming children’s illustrated book, Micropreemie Baby: I Am Not Alone, will be published in 2026.
