Amy Forss

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

Amy Forss will be demonstrating how to use maps of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds to enrich the content of the U.S. History survey course. She will be focusing on the exploration, navigation and adventures of British Captain James Cook.

Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha’s Near North Side—a historically black part of town—and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a...

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy created the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women and its federally sanctioned commissions for each of America's fifty states. Originally intended to placate proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, these commissions became the catalyst that caused the second wave of feminism, better known as the Second...

During the school year of 1967-68, African American basketball sensations John Biddle, Willie Frazier, Dwaine Dillard, Roy Hunter, and Phil Griffin electrified the predominantly white student body, coaches, and administrators of Omaha Central High School. These five "Rhythm Boys" and the racially tense times they lived through inspired Steve Marant...

This study examines and analyzes the life and times of Mildred Dee Brown, the co-founder of the Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by a black woman in the United States. Her story dates from the nineteenth-century era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, to the twentieth century's Great Migration, World Wars I and II, the Red Scare,...