U of Nebraska Press

With graceful prose and biographical narrative, Philip Burnham brings to life Clarence Three Stars, one of the most significant Native American activists of his generation--Author: Philip...

David Krell chronicles the cultural impact of the Boston Red Sox on business, media, and the National Pastime with engaging stories and anecdotes about the team's rich history beyond the field...

The Gas and Flame Men tells how chemical warfare changed the course of World War I, war in general, and the game of baseball--with famous players stepping away from the game to serve and fight in...

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships in an intergenerational tale set against the backdrop of Myanmar.Author:...

Nearly forty essays about the history, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, supplemented by numerous remarkable photos of the region--Author: Monica Norby, Judy...

Set against the backdrop of a remote location in the throes of rapid development, The Scent of Distant Family is a contemporary novel that expands, even across geologic time, our sense of who we...

This collection of the writings of Ora Eddleman Reed is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes Eddleman Reed as an author, a publishing pioneer, a New Woman, and a person with a...

Sandra E. Bonura tells the overlooked yet genuine rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels and his pioneering role in developing the sugar industry in the United States and the kingdom of Hawai'i...

The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg's magnum opus--a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation...

A biography of University of Miami baseball coach Ron Fraser, who coached the Hurricanes from 1963 to 1992 and was one of college baseball's greatest promoters and most successful and influential...

In They Came but Could Not Conquer," Diane J. Purvis reveals the centuries-long histories of environmental destruction and settler violence against Alaska Natives and their villages by successive...

To Educate American Indians collects selected writings from the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education from 1900 to 1904 to examine more fully the tragedy of...

Key writings of Alice Beck Kehoe provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of methodological and ethical issues in Americanist archaeology over the last thirty years.Author: Alice...

Twisting in Air" brings to life the era when an extraordinary group of falling horses made Western movies come alive and chronicles how one of them, a horse named Cocaine, overcame a debilitating...

Oral histories of Black minor league baseball players who played in the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind as both baseball and...

Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum...

This collection shows that Wallace Stegner's work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.Author: Mark Fiege, Leisl Carr Childers,...

Wardship and the Welfare State examines the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World...

Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state's government, this third edition of West Virginia Politics and Government offers a...

In this touching and personal collection of letters to his young son, Tomás Q. Morín meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face.Author: Tomás Q. MorínPublisher: U of...