Frances "Franc" Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to Nebraska in a wagon in 1873, participated in early literary pursuits as this donation of related books from the teacher reveals.
Despite the pandemic, we are offering a variety of virtual experiences, educator and student scholarships, and fall programming for teachers and their classrooms.
We are so grateful to our volunteers for the support and the joy that they bring! Our volunteers are a large and growing number of dedicated people who want to give back to...
The National Willa Cather Center is one of 75 institutions in the United States selected to participate in the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program.
A recent donation of letters from James and Angela Southwick shed new light on the strong relationship between Willa Cather, her family, and the Right Reverend George Allen Beecher, who served as Episcopal Bishop of Western Nebraska from 1910-1943.
Despite the staffing difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Willa Cather Center was able to reconfigure two summer internships to be entirely remote...
In her invited lecture, "When the World Broke in Two: America on the Cusp of the 1920s," Ryan will situate Cather's novel within the time period of creation and publication, a period that foreshadowed the turmoils of the 1920s.
