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Center for Great Plains Studies

Color portraits of (from left) Eric L. Ewing, Elizabeth Burden and Caleb Gayle on a color campus background.

Olson Great Plains series highlights Black history on the Plains

August 25, 2026

Society & Culture

Margaret Jacobs (right), Charles Mach Professor of history, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies and co-director of the Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project, speaks with project team members Cory DeRoin and Billie Tohee (both Otoe-Missouria) at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton.

Otoe-Missouria project releases historical marker audit, community surveys

June 20, 2025

Society & Culture

Members of the Otoe-Missouria Nation and other tribes dance during the inaugural Otoe-Missouria Day on Sept. 21, 2022.

Second annual Otoe-Missouria Day is Sept. 21

September 15, 2023

Six cows graze in a field.

2023 Great Plains conference will look at food through multiple lenses

March 7, 2023

Society & Culture

Color photo of Andrew Graybill on color campus background

Historian Graybill to discuss early effort to define Great Plains

January 24, 2023

Society & Culture