In the late 19th century, the U.S. and Australian governments established boarding schools to assimilate American Indian and Aboriginal children into dominant culture. This practice forced tens of thousands of children to leave their families and abandon their customs, which has had lasting consequences on individuals and Native culture. During the spring Nebraska Lecture April […]

“I was just stunned,” UNL history professor Margaret Jacobs said of learning she had won the highly prestigious Bancroft Award. “I just thought, ‘I can’t believe it.’” The Bancroft Prize, administered by Columbia University, is widely considered among the most prestigious awards for history, was for Jacobs’ book “White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler […]

UNL’s fall commencement exercises are scheduled for Dec. 18 and 19. Graduate commencement exercises, including doctoral hooding, will begin at 3 p.m. Dec. 18 for students earning doctoral and master’s degrees. Undergraduate exercises will begin at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 19. Both ceremonies will be at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The College of Law will […]

White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Materialism and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 By Margaret Jacobs, director of UNL’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program, associate professor of history University of Nebraska Press | 592 pages www.nebraskapress.edu In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, indigenous communities […]