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Margaret Jacobs

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

Two tepees were erected by student members of UNITE and others for Otoe-Missouria Day Sept. 21, 2023.

Otoe-Missouria, Center for Great Plains Studies earn Mellon funding

November 29, 2023

Society & Culture

Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, has been awarded an Outstanding Research and Creativity Award from the University of Nebraska.

Jacobs to deliver Feb. 21 Inquire lecture

February 15, 2023

Roger Welsch shows the filmmakers a collection of historical articles and photos about the Pawnee Nation in Dannebrog, Nebraska.

Film exploring act of reconciliation wins award

June 15, 2022

Society & Culture

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Faculty earn ACLS funding for digital humanities projects

June 10, 2022

A monument is erected outside the former Genoa Indian Residential School in Genoa, Nebraska.

Genoa Indian School project gains media attention

November 19, 2021

Society & Culture

A monument is erected outside the former Genoa Indian Residential School in Genoa, Nebraska.

Digital project expands access to Genoa Indian School history

November 4, 2021

Society & Culture

The Genoa Indian School in 1911

Genoa Indian boarding school is topic of Nov. 11 panel talk

November 1, 2021

Society & Culture

Silhouettes of different colors

Faculty panel to open E.N. Thompson series Sept. 1

August 30, 2021

Silhouettes of different colors

Thompson Forum to focus on historical, contemporary discrimination

August 19, 2021

Six faculty earn professorships

May 7, 2021

Faculty (from left) Margaret Jacobs, Ken Kiewra and Laurence Rilett are among the 2021 winners of the University of Nebraska’s most prestigious awards for research, creative activity, teaching and engagement.

Jacobs, Kiewra, Rilett earn top NU awards

March 29, 2021

Science & Technology

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