The following is an excerpt from Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Nebraska, 2018) by Susan Devan Harness. Harness (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes) is a writer, lecturer, and oral historian, and has been a research associate for the Tri-Ethnic Center … Continue reading Excerpt: Bitterroot
The following is an excerpt from Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing by Peter Joffre Nye (Nebraska, 2020). Chapter 4: John M. Chapman, Czar of Cycling Tis on Market Street away from all the cornfields Mistress Mihlon draws the amber … Continue reading Excerpt: Hearts of Lions
Helga Baitenmann is an associate fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. She is the coeditor of Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico. Her new book Matters of Justice: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian … Continue reading Excerpt: Matters of Justice
The following is an excerpt from Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star by Kat D. Williams (May 2020). Chapter 2:Refashioning Lefty I was always confused about what to do. Play ball or wear pretty dresses. … Continue reading Excerpt: Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez
The following is an excerpt from The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico by Bill Mills (Potomac Books, April). After months of living with only the barest of necessities while battling Obregón’s forces … Continue reading Excerpt: The Estrada Plot
The following is an excerpt from When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America by R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox (Bison Books, 2020). In Kansas industrial laborers were largely confined to the Tri-State Mining Region … Continue reading Excerpt: When Sunflowers Bloomed Red
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya (1902–90) served in the Russian army until 1917, then became a soldier and a nurse for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). After the civil war, she worked as a typist for the Red Army … Continue reading Excerpt: In the Trenches
The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate (Potomac Books, April 2020) tracks the life and ideas of the scholar, poet and activist who has been called the Nelson Mandela of China. Below the editor of the volume, … Continue reading From the Desk of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman: Breaking the Silence
Since 2006, the University of Nebraska Press has worked to publish The Complete Letters of Henry James, an acclaimed series that fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists … Continue reading From the Desk of Henry James: March 20, 1883
Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas (March 2020) is the remarkable account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a … Continue reading Excerpt: Sabotaged
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