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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 will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history – enslaved people, racial minorities, women and Indigenous people, among others – used the law to contest and advance their rights. January 24, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.