The digital humanities project "Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812– 1924" received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The project was developed by Katrina Jagodinsky, Susan Rosowski Associate Professor in the Department of History, and her team in the Digital Legal Research Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Visitors can explore how marginalized communities navigated the courts to seek justice. Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), the project is the first of its kind and explores thousands of habeas corpus petitions lodged to challenge coercion and confinement in eight states.
The fellowship will support research and writing leading to a book on the widespread use of the legal principle of habeas corpus by petitioners in American western courts between 1812 and 1924.
84 projects across the nation received funding.
