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William G. Thomas III

Color portrait of the University of Texas at Austin's Jeremi Shuri on a color UNL campus background

Panel discussion, lecture to explore legacy of U.S. Civil War

October 4, 2024

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

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

Finalists to be the university's next executive vice chancellor are (from left) Kathy Ankerson, Michael Boehm and William G. Thomas III.

EVC finalists feedback due by Dec. 31

December 17, 2021

Finalists to be the university's next executive vice chancellor are (from left) Kathy Ankerson, Michael Boehm and William G. Thomas III.

Ankerson, Boehm, Thomas named EVC finalists

December 7, 2021

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

William G. Thomas III, Angle Chair in the Humanities and professor of history at Nebraska, will present the Nebraska Lecture “A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War” at 3:30 p.m. CDT Oct. 6.

Thomas to give Nebraska Lecture on families who challenged slavery

September 29, 2020

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

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for June 16

June 16, 2017