UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LAW — With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how marginalized groups in American history — enslaved people, racial minorities, women and Indigenous people, among others — used the law to contest and advance their rights. The project will also develop an open educational resource featuring unpublished U.S. cases and illuminate that collection using documentary films and oral histories produced in collaboration with community partners.