U of Nebraska Press

Abortion in Mexico examines the social, legal, and judicial condemnation of abortion in Mexico from the early post-contact period through the present day.Author: Nora E. JaffaryPublisher: U of...

DeMisty D. Bellinger's debut story collection covers queer liaisons and trysts, love bordering on the absurd, and awe-worthy finds in the familiar, the familial, and the mundane. These stories'...

Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation, An Endangered Species is a tale of two families, each with their own problems and failures, and both bound into circumstances beyond their control, surviving on the...

This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the...

This collection is haunted by the ghosts of memory, whom Henrietta Goodman treats with narky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love--Author: Henrietta GoodmanPublisher: U of Nebraska...

In this new edition of Arizona Politics and Government, David R. Berman examines the continuity and changes in Arizona's political culture, constitutional foundations, geographical features, and...

Anthropologist Robert Jarvenpa examines how the energy and extraction industries in Canada's subarctic north threatens destruction of traditional southern Denesuliné cultural practices, land, and...

Biography of renowned Steelers radio announcer Myron Cope--Author: Dan Joseph, Elizabeth CopePublisher: U of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2024Number of Pages: 360 pagesLanguage:...

Between Black and Brown explores the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African American and Mexican American heritage, as they navigate American culture, which often clings to monoracial...

Between Soil and Society traces the history and development of conservation policy, especially as it compares to, and interacts with, the development of farm policy and such factors as climate change...

Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of Janowska (Lviv, Ukraine), one of the deadliest concentration camps in the Holocaust, by bringing together never before seen evidence and...

Biography of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize, who grew up in a broken home in the mountains of northeast Georgia and played fifteen Major League seasons with the Cardinals, Yankees, and New York...

Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their...

Brent M. Rogers interconnects the histories of William F. Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Mormons from the 1870s through the early 1900s"--Author: Brent M. RogersPublisher: U of Nebraska PressPublication...

Brian G. Shellum follows the experiences of Captain Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry in California, from life at the Presidio of San Francisco to summers patrolling Sequoia and Yosemite National...

A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851...

Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir's role in the legacy of racialized colonialism affecting U.S. wild lands and points toward a way forward--Author: Robert Aquinas McNallyPublisher: U of Nebraska...

James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through World War I.Author: James...

Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of...

Dear Wallace addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of the everyday.Author: Julie ChoffelPublisher: U of...

Elise Franklin considers how and why the slow process of decolonization reshaped the welfare state and the meaning of the family in postwar France.Author: Elise FranklinPublisher: U of Nebraska...

Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff's pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our...

Exile and the Jews anthologizes texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity, from the Hebrew Bible to the present, exploring how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Jewish...

In this expanded guidebook Jeff Barnes presents information about the historic forts and military posts of the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth century, including new entries, color photographs,...

Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public schools' aggressive efforts to assimilate and Americanize but instead engaged with...

Mark Derby focuses on Douglas Jolly's wartime surgical work in Spain, tracing his career after the Spanish Civil War through his distinguished service in World War II and into his civilian life as...

In this compelling memoir Aram? Calder? tells a fascinating story of what it's like to be a fugitive's son, what drives a young man into the military, and how his time in combat brings back childhood...

This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century that chronicle the splendor, the exploitation, and the controversies surrounding this...

Kevin M. Anzzolin analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico to argue that these writings created a literate, objective, refined, and informed public...

Homing is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt, with essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author's father with Andy Warhol, faith, labor,...