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Anna, Bell Affair Team

'Bell Affair' team, student researchers featured in Juneteenth events

June 4, 2024

Myeisha Essex and Anthony Wilcox play Mary and Daniel Bell in "The Bell Affair."

'Bell Affair' available to stream beginning March 26

March 25, 2024

Society & Culture

Anna, Bell Affair Team

'Bell Affair' team helping high school classes animate history

September 18, 2023

With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis and (not pictured) Catherine Wilson, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their

Team earns $1M grant to bridge connections between history, civil rights

February 1, 2023

Society & Culture

Multiple generations of the Bell family.

Lincoln premiere of ‘The Bell Affair' is Sept. 21 at the Ross

September 14, 2022

Society & Culture

Heather Striebel created the costumes for all of the women featured in The Bell Affair, including accessories.

Doctoral student helped stitch together historically significant film

September 14, 2022

Multiple generations of the Bell family.

'Bell Affair' making its premiere in D.C. June 2

May 27, 2022

Society & Culture

Myeisha Essex and Anthony Wilcox play Mary and Daniel Bell in "The Bell Affair."

New film, 'Bell Affair,' explores freedom suits in America

April 4, 2022

Society & Culture

Ann Williams, an enslaved woman, jumped from a third-story window in an attempt to escape from being sold in the interstate slave trade. Williams' story is being told in the animated short film, 'Anna,' which was produced by a team of scholars from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Nebraska-produced ‘Anna' selected for film festivals

May 3, 2018

Society & Culture

'Anna' team combines to tell slave's story through innovation

April 24, 2017

Society & Culture