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Excerpt: The Estrada Plot

April 29, 2020April 28, 2020 univnebpress

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

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Excerpt: When Sunflowers Bloomed Red

April 9, 2020April 8, 2020 univnebpress

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

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Excerpt: In the Trenches

April 6, 2020April 1, 2020 univnebpress

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

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From the Desk of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman: Breaking the Silence

April 2, 2020April 1, 2020 univnebpress

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

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From the Desk of Henry James: March 20, 1883

March 20, 2020March 16, 2020 univnebpress

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

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Excerpt: Sabotaged

March 19, 2020March 17, 2020 univnebpress

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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From the Desk of Henry James: February 24, 1881

February 24, 2020February 20, 2020 univnebpress

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 … Continue reading From the Desk of Henry James: February 24, 1881

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Excerpt: Walks on the Ground

February 18, 2020February 17, 2020 univnebpress

The following is an excerpt from Walks on the Ground: A Tribal History of the Ponca Nation, a record of Ponca elder Louis V. Headman’s personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades. Afterword History tells us the influx of … Continue reading Excerpt: Walks on the Ground

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Excerpt: The Grass Shall Grow

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 univnebpress

The following is an excerpt from The Grass Shall Grow: Helen Post Photographs and the Native American West by Mick Gidley (February). Dialogic Power In 1829 newspapers carried accounts of a speech attributed to the Muskogee leader Speckled Snake in … Continue reading Excerpt: The Grass Shall Grow

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Willa Cather and the Arts

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 univnebpress

Cather Studies presents new work about Willa Cather’s diverse writings (fiction, journalism, correspondence). Essays focus on her interesting relationships with other writers, the textual history of her works, as well as the cultural aesthetic and social contexts to her oeuvre. … Continue reading Willa Cather and the Arts

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