This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary and as the National Park Foundation said, “the Centennial is more than a birthday. We want people everywhere to embrace the opportunities to explore, learn, be inspired or simply have fun in … Continue reading From the desk of Joy Porter #FindYourPark
February Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books our noses have been buried in. The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert “This … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Timothy G. Anderson has taught journalism at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and prior to that worked as an editor and designer for a number of newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Newsday. He is the author of … Continue reading From the desk of Timothy G. Anderson: Neihardt and Hugh Glass
Sarah M. Robinson is a former sergeant in the U.S. Army and a practiced social worker. She is the co-author of Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law (Potomac Books, 2015). Netflix’s ten-episode documentary Making a Murderer, is great … Continue reading From the desk of Sarah M. Robinson
An excerpt from Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought (JPS, 2015) edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth, a finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards. From “Summary of the Science of Stem Cell Research” In the … Continue reading EXCERPT: Jews and Genes
Scott Winter is an assistant professor of journalism at Bethel University. He is the author of Nebrasketball: Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise (October 2015). Follow Scott on Twitter or visit his website. Miles: Right where he wants to be As Nebraska prepared to play Indiana at Assembly Hall Wednesday, I daydreamed about researching my book Nebrasketball: Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise. During that season two years ago, my favorite moment happened in Bloomington, Indiana. I had limited resources to research the book, a lack of time and money. I … Continue reading From the desk of Scott Winter
Books Witness by Josephine Waggoner Edited by Emily Levine 2015 J. Franklin Jameson Award Winner Review from the American Historical Association: “In this sensitively edited and translated volume, Emily Levine performs a work of recovery mirroring that of Lakota amateur historian Josephine Waggoner (d. 1943) herself: distilling for scholars a disciplined but wide-ranging gathering of historical materials that might otherwise have been forever lost . . . a major editorial achievement.” Fall of the Double Eagle by John R. Schindler Praise from The Washington Book Review: “Schindler has written a very insightful book on a subject most historians have partially or … Continue reading News and Reviews
Diane Kiesel is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court. She presides in the Bronx County Criminal Term. A former journalist, she is a winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and is the … Continue reading From the desk of Diane Kiesel: Dorothy Ferebee’s story
An excerpt from Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties (February 2016) by George Gmelch. Chapter 3: Wearing Al Kaline’s Pants Although the distance from Duluth to Jamestown is just over seven hundred miles, it took us seven hours … Continue reading EXCERPT: Playing with Tigers
Dominique Brégent-Heald is an associate professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her articles have appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Journal of American Culture. She is … Continue reading From the desk of Dominique Brégent-Heald
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