U of Nebraska Press

Hush of the Land chronicles the six-decade quest of backcountry packer and outfitter Smoke Elser to protect wilderness areas not by keeping people away but by leading them deep into the wild...

I Make Envy on Your Disco is the story of an art advisor who, fed up with his life in New York, flies to Berlin for a gallery opening and finds a once-divided city brimming with excitement and...

Visionary twin sisters aspire to become artists in 1950s India, confronting a society hostile to women claiming their place in the world.Author: Parul KapurPublisher: U of Nebraska PressPublication...

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent.Author: Lory BedikianPublisher: U of Nebraska...

Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women-Celia and Eliza Grayson-from Nebraska City in 1858 to...

Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how...

In this definitive biography of Harry Dalton, Lee C. Kluck tells the full and colorful story of a man many consider to be the first modern baseball executive, who had notable stints with the...

Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the...

Maricas traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural...

Set against the backdrop of the farm crisis of the 1980s Charlotte Hinger's moving novel explores the lives of Mary and Iron Barrett as they face the multiple calamities imposed by overproduction,...

Biography of baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, who played for the New York Giants from 1899 to 1914 and was one of the best hitters of the Deadball Era. A playboy and showman, he later went into...

My Grandfather's Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Richard Moves Camp's family history and traditions.Author: Richard Moves CampPublisher: U of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Mar 01,...

No Friday Night Lights tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border--Author: John M. GlionnaPublisher: U...

Object-Oriented Narratology explores the representation of objects from a narratological point of view, combining an object-centered approach with specific text studies and arguing for the cultural...

On Our Own Terms" sets recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu's collection mixes music, religion, and political critique, evoking pasts and futures--Author: Tares OburumuPublisher: U of...

Through the lens of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, former senior U.S. embassy official Ted Craig offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through U.S.-Pakistan relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal...

A tribute to Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully in the words of writers, broadcasters, and others who knew him and celebrate him not just for his sixty-seven years calling games for the...

Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when Dwight David Eisenhower won in a landslide and was elected president of the United States--Author: Ira ChinoyPublisher: U...

Through the lens of a singular statewide organization, the Society of Oklahoma Indians, Joshua Clough fills the historiographic gap on formal Native resistance between the dissolution of the Society...

Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene--that is, creating self-sustaining ecosystems...

Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have used to address threats and thereby preparing us to recognize, understand, and...

A collection of memories throughout Penny Guisinger's life recounting her story of sexuality, love, and marriage--Author: Penny GuisingerPublisher: U of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Mar 01,...

Steen Ledet Christiansen's Storytelling in "Kabuki" explores the series created by David Mack--a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki and her past. The series ran from 1994...

Swallowing a World analyzes a series of massive and meandering late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection upon the...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Thanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group...

Andrew Cowell and Terry Brockie present a tribally centered reference grammar of Aaniiih (Gros Ventre), a member of the Algonquian language family most closely related to the Arapaho language...

Reconstructing B. M. Bower's daily life as it is documented in her diaries, letters, and family papers, this biography claims Bertha Muzzy Bower as a progenitor: a writer and western maverick whose...

A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful...

Outdoor memoir of fly-fishing in densely populated South Korea, from the DMZ to the mountains, the coasts, and places Korean War battles were fought--Author: James CardPublisher: U of Nebraska...