From the Desk of Jennifer Helgren: March is the Birthday Month of Camp Fire and Girl Scouts

Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History at University of the Pacific. She is author of American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (2017) and co-editor of Girlhood: A Global History (2012).  … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Helgren: March is the Birthday Month of Camp Fire and Girl Scouts

From the Desk of William C. Kashatus: Remembering Tim McCarver

William C. Kashatus is a historian, educator, and the author of more than twenty books, including Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code (Nebraska, 2017) and Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color … Continue reading From the Desk of William C. Kashatus: Remembering Tim McCarver

Excerpt: California Dreams and American Contradictions

Monique McDade is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College. Her book, California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal (Nebraska, 2023), was published this month. California Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American … Continue reading Excerpt: California Dreams and American Contradictions