Omaha Oral History Event

The talk "Re-centering Margins: Oral History and Cultural Memory" by Jade R. Rogers, Historian, Archivist, & Oral Historian, is part of the UNO Libraries' Archives & Special Collections' grant project Omaha Stories: Oral Histories of Omaha, Nebraska. Also participating will be UNO students sharing their experience conducting their first oral history interviews as part of a History course. Parking for community members is available in the Community Engagement Center (CEC) Parking Lot (Lot E).

The grant project Omaha Stories is sharing over 220 interviews conducted from 1974 to 2007 with the public freely online. The initiative is part of UNO Libraries' strategic priority to cultivate, share, and preserve digital resources and scholarship. Omaha Stories is funded by Humanities Nebraska (HN) and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

The Omaha Stories: Oral Histories of Omaha, Nebraska website is one of many grants funded by HN. HN awards more than $257,000 in grants each year.

^{Created in 1973 as a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, HN is an independent, non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of public and academic members. HN funds programs that explore Nebraska's heritage, build community awareness, and strengthen our ties to cultural traditions at home and abroad. The Nebraska Cultural Endowment is a public/private partnership that designates funds to HN for distribution.}

^{Any non-profit group is eligible to apply for a grant from HN. The HN staff is available for grant consultation and will read proposal drafts. Contact the HN office if you need assistance with a project idea. For a copy of Humanities Nebraska grant guidelines, contact HN at 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 330, Lincoln, NE 68508, phone 402-474-2131, fax 402-474-4852, or e-mail at info@humanitiesnebraska.org. The entire grant guidelines packet is online at: http://humanitiesnebraska.org/.}