The U.S. Law and Race Initiative will host a product launch on December 16, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Ubuntu Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.
The event will celebrate the culmination of the three-year Mellon Foundation grant and the digital publication of Equality Before the Law, an online resource that explores how legal processes shaped race and slavery across U.S. history. The website features original documents and teaching materials from unpublished and unfamiliar legal cases and stories.
Phil Harper, the Mellon Foundation's Program Director of Higher Learning, will attend.
The U.S. Law and Race Initiative brings together large university teaching programs, immersive new forms of digital media content, and community partnership storytelling in order to connect Americans to law and race in U.S. history. Faculty member Katrina Jagodinsky, associate professor in the Department of History, co-directs the initiative with colleague Jeannette Eileen Jones and directs the Digital Legal Research Lab.
Learn more about the work of the initiative from Nebraska Today.
