José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. His new book Transimperial Anxieties was published in June. From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation … Continue reading Excerpt: Transimperial Anxieties
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading Excerpt: Space Age Adventures
LaShandra Sullivan is an associate professor of anthropology at Reed College. Her new book Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil was published in June. In the last half century Brazil’s rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane … Continue reading Excerpt: Unsettling Agribusiness
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading Excerpt: The Begging Question
Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is … Continue reading Excerpt: Histories of French Sexuality
Arnold Krupat is a professor emeritus of global studies and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak (Nebraska, 2021) and Companion to James Welch’s “The Heartsong of Charging … Continue reading Excerpt: From the Boarding Schools
Happy Mystery Month! UNP is celebrating the start of the month by sharing the opening lines from Bison Books’ editions of Mignon G. Eberhart’s novels. Eberhart was Nebraska’s own Grand Master of mystery; the iconic Bison Books editions of her … Continue reading Start Mystery Month with Mignon G. Eberhart
Edward Marks, a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, served as the State Department Advisor on Terrorism and is a founding trustee of the Command and General Staff College Foundation. He is the coauthor of U.S. Counterterrorism: From Nixon to Trump—Key Challenges, … Continue reading Excerpt: A Professional Foreigner
Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a senior lecturer of English literature at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (Nebraska, 2023). Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Mine Mine Mine
Gary C. Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History and Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation … Continue reading Excerpt: Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
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