Humanities Desk

Nebraska Chautauqua starts Friday in Kearney, a two-day event focused on the events of the 1950’s. There are some new twists to this year’s event, and NET’s Jack Williams talked to Mary Yager with Humanities Nebraska to find out what’s in store.

Far from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, the center of the animation world, students in Nebraska are learning how to make images come alive. They’re part of a series of summer workshops meant to provide hands-on animation instruction, something that’s not typically a part of middle or high sch...

A collection of photos that depicts the lives of African-Americans in Lincoln in the early 20th century is on display until the end of May at the Nebraska History Museum. The exhibition “Black and White in Black and White” includes part of a collection of 280 old glass negatives discovered in Lincol...

A collaboration that combines young poets and opera will showcase a project that’s teaching fledgling writers how their words can be made into music. Opera Omaha’s Poetry and Music concert takes place on Sunday at Kaneko in Omaha.

Many Nebraskans are still assessing flood damage and part of that process will be to go through family pictures and other heirlooms, things like books and old clothing, soaked by flood water. NET’s Jack Williams spoke with Randy Silverman, the head of preservation at the Marriott Library at the Univ...

He turns 100-years-old today, but for John Boosalis of Lincoln, Nebraska, what happened to him 76 years ago this month doesn’t seem like that long ago. As a young Navy radioman and gunner, he found himself on a remote island in the middle of the South Pacific, long before “Lost” was a TV show and “C...

A unique partnership between the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Department of Defense is using new data-crunching software to solve a massive and solemn puzzle. With tens of thousands of missing U.S. service members from wars over the past century, there’s a new push to identify their remains....

Next week, Nebraska’s newest state poet will be formally introduced at the State Capitol. Matt Mason of Omaha is a poet and author and is executive director of the Nebraska Writer’s Collective. He replaces Twyla Hansen and will serve a five-year renewable term as State Poet, advocating for poetry an...

150 years ago today, Nebraska lawmakers took about 24-hours to establish a brand-new land grant university, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It was a lightning-quick process and part of the Morrill Act of 1862, which gave federal land to states if they established new colleges. The early years of...

In a brick building on a quiet street on the edge of Omaha’s Hanscom Park, there’s small group of conservators saving Nebraska’s history, one object at a time. They work at the Ford Conservation Center, a regional conservation lab that helps stabilize and preserve cultural history across the Midwest...