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Excerpt: Ties that Bind

September 8, 2025September 3, 2025 univnebpress

Hannah Kim is an associate professor of history and a co-coordinator of the social studies education program at the University of Delaware, Newark. Kim is the author of Ties that Bind: People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905–1965 … Continue reading Excerpt: Ties that Bind

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Excerpt: Crush

August 25, 2025August 14, 2025 univnebpress

Nicholas O’Connell is based in Washington State and is the founder of the Writer’s Workshop. He contributes to media outlets such as Newsweek, Food & Wine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. O’Connell is the author of five books, including The … Continue reading Excerpt: Crush

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Excerpt: A Great Many Refugees

August 18, 2025August 14, 2025 univnebpress

Thomas A. Krainz is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. He is the author of Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. His latest book A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: A Great Many Refugees

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Excerpt: Too Good to be Altogether Lost

August 11, 2025August 5, 2025 univnebpress

Pamela Smith Hill is a New York Times best-selling editor, author, educator, and expert on Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has taught young adult literature and creative and professional writing at universities in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as classes on Laura Ingalls … Continue reading Excerpt: Too Good to be Altogether Lost

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Excerpt: Big Loosh

August 4, 2025July 31, 2025 univnebpress

Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during … Continue reading Excerpt: Big Loosh

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Excerpt: Invisible Contrarian

July 28, 2025September 9, 2025 univnebpress

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Invisible Contrarian

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Excerpt: 90 Seconds to Midnight

July 21, 2025July 14, 2025 univnebpress

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. Her latest book 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s … Continue reading Excerpt: 90 Seconds to Midnight

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Excerpt: Rezballers and Skate Elders

July 14, 2025July 10, 2025 univnebpress

David Kamper is a professor of American Indian studies, associate director and cofounder of the Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change, and cofounder of Surf/Skate Studies Collaborative at San Diego State University. His most recent book is Rezballers and … Continue reading Excerpt: Rezballers and Skate Elders

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Excerpt: Prison Town

July 7, 2025July 2, 2025 univnebpress

Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York. Her book Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York (Nebraska, 2025) was published last month. In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates … Continue reading Excerpt: Prison Town

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Excerpt: Tongues of Settlement

June 27, 2025June 26, 2025 univnebpress

Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), … Continue reading Excerpt: Tongues of Settlement

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