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In the early twentieth century, Kate Bates is an anomaly--an independent "new woman" who rejects the privilege of urban life for the "moral, clean" lifestyle of the countryside. Through hard work,...

Amarilly Jenkins may be a scrub-girl, but she has ambitions. Through hard work, determination, and a few hilarious high jinks, the cheerful young girl pulls herself and her entire family out of...

Hastings College, an Affiliate Partner of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, invited students age 13 and above from all 93 counties within the state of Nebraska to submit their writing for the...

Best Nebraska Teen Writing 2024, Volume 2Author: NAPublisher: Hastings College PressPublication Date: Jun 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in Wisconsin cutover land, Henry Oyen's 1919 novel Big Flat portrays a complex balance between communal class-consciousness and the individualist entrepreneurial spirit so central to American...

A field book is defined as a collection of primary source documents and observations made during field research. The structure of Circle in the Classroom: Field Book 1 is similar, in that it extends...

Hal Warner may be a rich kid, but even he can see that the working conditions in the Colorado coal mines are inhumane. Inspired by real-life events, King Coal follows Hal's undercover exploration of...

This edition of Madge Vertner was produced with the assistance of Accessible Archives.Mattie Griffith's pre-Civil War abolitionist novel Madge Vertner is a fictional portrait of American slavery told...

Before it was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a successful silent film, Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett was the best-selling novel of 1920. A departure from Gale's earlier idyllic Friendship Village...

The brilliant and sinister Martin writes a novel from the perspective of a murderer-and if you read it you just might turn into one. Set in both the art world and the demimonde of New York City, Tod...

Willa Cather's One of Ours (1922) may have won a Pulitzer Prize, but it remains one of her most controversial novels. What, her critics ask, does a woman know about war? Inspired by the death of her...

Plainsongs's title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference for the living language, whether in free or formal verse. Published twice a year by Hastings College...

Plainsongs 40.1 (Winter 2020)Author: Eric R. TuckerPublisher: Hastings College PressPublication Date: Jan 06, 2020Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in a small college town in California, Mary Austin's 1908 novel Santa Lucia explores the limited options available to women in early 20th century America. Focusing on the married lives of three...

Six TreesAuthor: Mary Wilkins FreemanPublisher: Hastings College PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942885377ISBN-13:...

Spectrum : Spring 2020Author: Lauren Feden, Lyette Erin, Abigail ShawPublisher: Hastings College PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 28 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the dreary days of September 2024, twenty-two devotees of dread gathered around a faux fireplace in the basement of the Wilson Mathematics and Computer Science Building at Hastings College to...

Irvin S. Cobb was a beloved celebrity and jack-of-all-trades in early 20th-century America. Journalism, humor writing, acting . . . you name it, he could do it. In the 1920 non-fiction comedy The...

The Big TownAuthor: Ring W. LardnerPublisher: Hastings College PressPublication Date: Nov 15, 2020Number of Pages: 174 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942885601ISBN-13: 9781942885603

Katherine Cope is twenty-seven years old and is striking out on her own. The year is 1914 and she is a New Woman, a woman of modern ideas and modern times. Told through the eyes of her mother, Lucy...

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Gene Stratton-Porter's 1912 novel The Harvester focuses on David Langston, a young bachelor who lives in and makes his living from the swamps and forests of...

The Triumph of the Egg, Sherwood Anderson's 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses on the alienating and disruptive moments of American small-town life. Similar in tone to its more...

Disillusioned by the urban labor strikes of early 20th-century Oakland, California, Billy and Saxon Roberts flee the city to begin anew as ranchers in the idyllic Sonoma Valley. Their journey back to...

John Herrmann's What Happens was a little before its time. Originally published in France in 1926 and seized by U.S. Customs for violating the 1922 Tariff Act, which banned the importing of obscene...