Dr. Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration (Nebraska, 2023) and Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017).
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration (Nebraska, 2023) and Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017). See less