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Named after the poet?s mother, ?mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions...

This book is a short treatment of a long history. Nebraska has been inundated by ancient seas, carved by glaciers, and settled by ancient cultures who learned to survive in a land prone to extremes...

After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair?but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild...

The U.S. South possessed an extensive history of looking outward, specifically southward, to solve internal tensions over slavery and economic competition from the 1820s through the 1860s...

Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of...

In 2010 twenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women's Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed. A Game...

Willie McCovey, known as "Stretch," played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome left-handed power hitter,...

On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was...

2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner At times writers--from the unpublished to jaded lifers--need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that...

Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in...

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.S. airmen shaped the central air...

All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took...

This collection of poems is an exploration of lives and selves transformed by choice and by chance. Formally and thematically diverse, these poems are testament to the will to redefine oneself in a...

Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball?and also the first...

American English, Italian Chocolate is a memoir in essays beginning in the American Midwest and ending in north central Italy. In sharply rendered vignettes, Rick Bailey reflects on donuts and ducks,...

Author: Suzanne RobertsPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 252 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496231023ISBN-13: 9781496231024

Author: Bethany MailePublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 234 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496220218ISBN-13: 9781496220219

April Twilights is Bernice Slote's landmark edition of Cather's first book, a collection of Willa Cather's poems with an introduction by Slote and a new introduction by Robert Thacker that provides...

Art Effects : Image, Agency, and Ritual in AmazoniaAuthor: Carlos FaustoPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award Winner We all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we...

George Gmelch recounts his pro baseball days with the Detroit Tigers Minor League team in the 1960s, when both he and the country were undergoing profound changes.Author: George GmelchPublisher:...

Author: Suzanne RobertsPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496222849ISBN-13: 9781496222848

Be with Me Always" is a collection ot essays that explore hauntedness, not through conventional ghost stories but by considering the way our pasts cling to our imaginations. Noble considers ways she...

The poems in Tsitsi Ella JajiÆs Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape...

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning...

2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Although,...