WHAT: Brown Bag Lecture Series
HOSTED BY: UNK Department of History
TITLE: “Maud Marston: Kearney’s Pioneering Stunt Reporter”
TOPIC: Derisively known as “stunt reporters,” early female investigative journalists in the 1880s and 1890s sought out stories in factories, asylums and prisons and through world travel. Maud Marston was Kearney’s first female reporter and got the scoop of a lifetime when she interviewed the famous stunt reporter Nellie Bly during her around-the-world trip in 1889-90. Beyond this scoop, Marston’s columns and stories filled Kearney papers until she became the city’s first female attorney. This talk will follow her trailblazing careers in journalism and the law while highlighting Marston’s lasting impact on the community.
PRESENTER: Nathan Tye is the associate professor of Nebraska and American West history at UNK, where he’s taught since 2019. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his research focuses on the lives of migrant laborers, better known as hobos, and their efforts to survive on society’s margins. Tye serves on the boards of several local community museums and cultural organizations, and his research is published in Nebraska History, Annals of Iowa and Willa Cather Review. He also appeared on NBC’s celebrity genealogy program “Who Do You Think You Are?”
TIME: Noon
DATE: Wednesday, Sept. 9
PLACE: Kearney Public Library, 2020 First Ave.
VIDEO: Available on the Kearney Public Library YouTube channel
CONTACT: Nathan Tye, associate history professor, 308.865.8860, tyen@unk.edu