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Jagodinsky's project earns digital humanities award

May 28, 2025

Zoe Williams, a Howard University student, works with Katrina Jagodinsky, associate professor of history, to help decipher writing on an old legal document.

First-of-its-kind project offers access to freedom petitions

September 5, 2024

oe Williams, a Howard University student from Aurora, Illinois, works with Katrina Jagodinsky, Associate Professor of History, to help decode questionable writing on an old legal document.

Undergrads expand stories behind historic slavery lawsuits

June 18, 2024

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Spring webinar series will examine law and race

March 18, 2024

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Initiative featured in Major Sponsored Programs and Faculty Awards booklet

November 6, 2023

Laura Weakly (left), metadata encoding specialist, works with a student in the Digital Legal Research Lab.

Students continue investigating legal records through REU

August 22, 2023

Join us on June 19 to commemorate Juneteenth. The program will feature students and their research on legal cases on freedom of enslaved people.

Freedom suits the focus of Libraries' Juneteenth program

June 13, 2023

With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis and (not pictured) Catherine Wilson, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their rights.

Team earns $1M grant to bridge connections between history, civil rights

February 1, 2023

Annabella Pizzi of St. Anselm College, inputs an 1915 Washington court case about a person performing dentistry without a license. Research Experiences for Undergrads.

New research experience has historical, legal focus

July 12, 2022

Katrina Jagodinsky, Rosowski associate professor of history, works with undergraduate researchers Kasha Appleton and Natalie Lucas.

Jagodinsky nets NSF funding for new REU exploring legal history

April 25, 2022

Myeisha Essex and Anthony Wilcox play Mary and Daniel Bell in "The Bell Affair."

New film, 'Bell Affair,' explores freedom suits in America

April 4, 2022

Study delves into habeas corpus' use to gain freedoms in the American West

May 20, 2020