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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

Michael Shiner, as depicted in the film, writes in a room by a window

Nebraska team premieres film based on enslaved man's diary

March 4, 2024

Society & Culture

. Students used sketching, 3D modeling, and body scans to create these large scale three-dimensional fashion oriented objects.

'Enlarging the Ordinary' student exhibit displayed at Hillestad Gallery

December 13, 2023

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

A green velvet dress based on Willa Cather's writing is part of the exhibition "A Gold Slipper," on view through Jan. 21 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Willa Cather's 'A Gold Slipper' adapted for exhibition

December 3, 2021

Michael Burton's "July 10th" painting of a farm house as viewed from a soybean field.

Kiechel features Burton's Nebraska-inspired artworks

August 30, 2021