Thematic Research
Army Officers' Wives on the Great Plains, 1865-1900
Narratives, photographs, commentary, and excerpts from diaries, letters and memoirs tell the significance of the experience of Army officers' wives on the Great Plains.
Project Director
Barbara Handy-Marchello, emerita, North Dakota State University
URL
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/projects/army_officers_wives/
Birds of Nebraska
A species database and transcriptions of relevant newspaper accounts written from 1854-1923 and donated by James E. Ducey.
Cuban Battlefields of the Spanish-Cuban-American War
A rich record of the Spanish-Cuban-American War, created to support archeological investigation of the battlefields of 1898.
Project Directors
Peter Bleed
Douglas Scott
Digging In: The Historic Trails of Nebraska
A prototype web site for archaeological and historical research on Nebraska's immigrant trails, featuring the site report from the 2005 UNL dig at the Beaver Creek Trail Crossing Site in Seward County, Nebraska.
Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
Texts of nine recognized treaties, created between the years 1722 and 1805. These are the product of seven early treaty events between a number of American Indian Nations and the British, and of two United States efforts.
Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and The Roots of Lewis and Clark
Envisaging Jefferson's West through primary documents and maps.
German Sermons, 1550-1650
An online bibliographical database of Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed sermons published in German-speaking Europe between 1550 and 1650.
Project Director
Amy Burnett
Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska
A walk through the complex political, social, and cultural terrain of Lincoln, Nebraska. By exploring in detail the events of an early Plains city, the project hopes to provide an understanding of similar dynamics and development occurring in other cities across the region at the time.
Project Director
Timothy R. Mahoney
The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yoruba Proverb Treasury
A representative collection of Yoruba proverbs compiled and translated by the late Oyekan Owomoyela at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and published by the University of Nebraska Press.
The Home Front in the Great Plains During World War II, 1939-1945
This site helps students and the public understand the way that Great Plains residents prepared for and participated in World War II.
Project Director
R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University
Homestead National Monument Records Index
An index of the homestead land records of the Broken Bow, Nebraska land office.
Project Director
Richard Edwards
Katherine Walter
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
An online, searchable, conflated edition based on editor Gary E. Moulton's work published by the University of Nebraska Press and the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies. The site includes related multimedia and scholarly works selected by a scholarly and Native American advisory board.
Principal Investigators
Katherine L. Walter
Gary Dunham
Sponsors
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska Press
Center for Great Plains Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Latin Works of John Wyclif
John Wyclif (1324 -1384) has been variously described as “the morning star of the Reformation” and as a preacher of “lying insanities in the ears of many.” In his time, he was both England’s most eminent theologian and its first heresiarch. This site intends to make Wyclif’s Latin corpus more widely available to a general scholarly audience.
Louis XIV
A survey of the architecture, painting, sculpture, and more from the time of Louis XIV. (French language)
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Public Discourse
This archive contains newspaper accounts of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, government investigation reports, early histories in works of Western Americana, Apostate and Anti-Mormon publications. By creating machine-readable electronic texts and digital objects, this collection of core documents can be searched and browsed by users, providing not only increased access to key sources, but also potential for the emergence of previously unforeseen research questions.
Nebraska Public Documents
Nebraska Public Documents presents searchable state government agency reports dating from 1891-1929.
Project Director
Beth Goble, Nebraska Library Commission
Andrea Faling, Nebraska State Historical Society
James Shaw, University of Nebraska–Omaha
Katherine L. Walter, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Sponsors
Nebraska Library Commission
Nebraska State Records Board
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Nineteenth-Century Studies: Resources
This site is designed to provide students of the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States resources in literature, history, art, and material culture to carry out interdisciplinary study of major themes and topics that help define the nature of the era.
Omaha Bound: Mexican and African American Migrations to Nebraska, 1880-1930
Comparing and contrasting the experiences of African Americans and Mexicans in Nebraska in order to assess the complex and dynamic processess associated with migration and social renegotiation in urban American during the period of 1880 to 1930. [In development]
Project Directors
Patrick Jones
James Garza
Omaha Indian Artifacts and Images
A virtual archive and reference information about the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska created by the University of Nebraska State Museum, the UNL Libraries, the Nebraska State Historical Society, and members of the Omaha tribe.
Project Director
Thomas P. Myers
Dee Ann Allison
Sponsors
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska State Museum
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
Nebraska State Historical Society
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Omaha Language Learning
This website provides access to Omaha language materials, both old and new. It promotes the Omaha language, culture, and community.
The Plains Humanities Alliance
The Plains Humanities Alliance is dedicated to preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Great Plains region. It is one of nine NEH-designated centers that make up the Consortium of Regional Humanities Centers, and recently has been absorbed into the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
Railroads and the Making of Modern America explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads, telegraphs, steam ships and other technologies. It concentrates on the railroad network, and explores how the railroad's expansion and development brought profound economic, social, and political changes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (b.1823-d.1911) from the Carlton and Territa Lowenberg Collection at the UNL Libraries' Archives & Special Collections, with commentary.
The Walt Whitman Archive
An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Walt Whitman's vast work easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
Editors
Kenneth M. Price
Ed Folsom
Sponsors
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
US Department of Education
Institute of Museum and Library Services
University of Iowa
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
IATH and the University of Virginia
The Willa Cather Archive
Images, text, manuscripts, and critical materials that document and contextualize the work of author Willa Cather (b.1873-d.1947).
Editor
Andrew Jewell
Sponsors
Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
The University of Nebraska Press
The Cather Project
