1. The first college to accept women and black student2. She was the first black woman to get a bachelors degree3. The Seneca Falls convention4. The Seneca Falls declaration5. False-18776. 18807. True8. Aids in discrimination based on sex for any educational program receiving federal funding9. 198010. Virginia Military Institute Continue reading Tuesday Trivia Answers
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West by Andrea G. Radke-Moss. With the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, after the civil war, economic necessity partnered with the efforts of ‘progressive ideologies’ allowed for four public institutions to admit women. It was through the educational venue that these women challenged rigid nineteenth century gender limitations and ‘created broader definitions of female inclusion’. This week Tuesday Trivia is going to do some broadening of our own minds with a few facts on the history of women's rights. 1. … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: November 11, 2008
Read from Homer Hickam's foreword in Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin:
The book that follows is a riveting, insightful account of the Skylab missions flown by the United States in 1973 and 1974. It is also simply a great yarn. Skylab began as an underdog, was nearly knocked out several times, staggered back to its feet, and fought on against overwhelming odds until it became a champion. In a lot of ways, it was the Rocky of space, and just like the story in that great film, it is an inspiration for all who know it. The difference is the remarkable saga of Skylab is all true.
“You will be rewarded for your efforts”by Kathi Jackson, authorThey Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II I laughed at this fortune-cookie fortune even as I taped it onto the base of my computer where it taunted me as I wrote. Up to that time, rewards for my writing had been scarce and it didn’t appear that anything would be coming in anytime soon. Several years before, I had started a novel loosely based on an aunt who was a nurse in a veterans hospital. (Although much of her life had been sad, I suspected that … Continue reading Author Guest Blog- Kathi Jackson
University of Nebraska Press author Mimi Schwartz will be appearing in Lincoln, Nebraska on Tuesday, November 18 for a book signing, reading, and discussion of her recent memoir Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall, on the University of Nebraska−Lincoln campus. Mimi Schwartz recovers the history of a German Village and the journey into her family's past in her latest memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times. Schwartz grew up on her father's boyhood stories and rarely took them seriously. What was a modern American … Continue reading Author Mimi Schwartz to read and discuss Good Neighbors, Bad Times
Well readers, I know I always say “it’s been a big week”, but this truly has been a big week . America made history last night by electing the first African American President, Barack Obama. Now I don’t think anything I’m going to write today will top that, so let’s just lower our expectations a bit and begin what I’m sure will end up being a very interesting, albeit not groundbreaking, This Week in history. November 3, 1969: Richard Nixon addresses the nation asking that the “silent majority” to support him in the Vietnam War and his policies. There is … Continue reading This Week in History: November 3-7, 2008
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press: one author's journey through French wine country, the story of America's first space station, a study of historic cemeteries of the Pacific Northwest, a paperback edition of the life story of Miccosukee elder Buffalo Tiger, and many other books. Read about all of our new books here. Continue reading New this month from the University of Nebraska Press
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Radio’s Revolution: Don Hollenbeck’s CBS Views the Press by Loren Ghiglione. In U.S. Journalism history, one radio show stands above the rest in terms of historical significance. The one time pet project of Edward R. Murrow, CBS Views the Press was the go to resource for topics ranging from racism to McCarthyism, and dared to do more than just be subject of newspaper criticism. For once a radio program stepped up and did some criticizing of its own, and among other things, it the won a Peabody award. This week … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: November 6, 2008
1. It went from -45 degrees to 49 degrees2) It is illegal to throw an item across the street3) "With water"4) False- sheep5) It is illegal to show acts of a felonious crime6) True7) President Teddy Roosevelt8) True9) It's called the "nervous sheep state"10) It became illegal to drink while driving Continue reading Tuesday Trivia Answers
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir by Dan Aadland. In 1892 a spot of land was picked out by Magnus Jensen. Years later, his granddaughter Emily would live there with her husband Dan, and he would approach this Montana ranch much like Thoreau would Walden Pond. In this book, Aadland takes a single year from his life and uses clear and crisp prose to illuminate the harsh but striking reality of life in the West. This week Tuesday Trivia is going to shed a little bit more (albeit slightly … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: November 4, 2008
