KEARNEY — UNK History event will focus on Frank family’s fight to end slavery during a presentation at the Kearney Public Library. Frank MuseumTITLE: “They held the laboring oars”: The Frank Family’s Civil WarTOPIC: The Franks were Kearney’s first family in the 1880s and 1890s. This talk will follow the Frank family through the Civil War and highlight their fight for the abolition of slavery. PRESENTER: Nathan Tye is the associate professor of Nebraska and American West history at UNK, where he’s taught since 2019. 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.