The Academic Freedom Nebraska Case Repository, an AFCON project, is a searchable collection of Nebraska cases involving intellectual freedom in academic contexts.  Only a few of the cases are legal cases but all are specific incidents involving or threatening freedoms of belief, expression, teaching, learning, inquiry, publication, and/or access to information and ideas.  The repository can be searched in two ways:
 
1. Filtering by a Category:

• issue (e.g., curriculum, research, book censorship, student press);
• course/topic (e.g., history, religion, sexuality, violence, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+);
• type of institution (K-12 education, higher education, library);
• target (e.g., teacher, student, researcher);
• time period (cases range from 1870 to 2024);
• place (Lincoln, Omaha, and many others); or
• any combination of these categories (e.g., race/ethnicity in K-12 education).

2. Searching by Keyword:

• Go to the search box, which is found directly after the words "Filter by" on the landing page.
  
• Enter your desired keyword.
• If there are any entries that contain the keyword, you will see a list of those cases displayed.
  

 
We hope this resource will be useful to anyone interested in teaching, learning, or writing about intellectual freedom in matters of education or research.  We are happy to hear from anyone with knowledge about these cases or about others that should be added.  We are also happy to cooperate with anyone interested in expanding this project to other states or to national databases.  If you have questions, comments, suggestions, additions, or corrections, email David Moshman at [email protected].