The following excerpt is from Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean by Christopher M. Church (December 2017). Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration At five-thirty in the morning on 3 May 1902, the young schoolteacher Roger Portel awoke to … Continue reading Excerpt: Paradise Destroyed
The following is an excerpt from Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds by B. J. Hollars (Nebraska, 2017). Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. From Chapter 8: The Christmas Count On … Continue reading Excerpt: The Christmas Count
The following is an excerpt from Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar (December 2017) by Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas with Jim Robison. From Chapter 4: Young, Black, Female, and . . . from the White House Foreign Service officers serve at … Continue reading Excerpt: Diversifying Diplomacy
The following has been excerpted from Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West by Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum (November 2017). Morta Las Vegas is the latest book in the Postwestern Horizons series. From Chapter 1: The Problem … Continue reading Excerpt: Morta Las Vegas
The following has been excerpted from Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (Nebraska, 2011), a collection of essays edited by Jeremy Strong. This particular essay has been excerpted in honor of the picky eater at your Thanksgiving table. From “Feeding Finn” … Continue reading Excerpt: Educated Tastes
The following is an excerpt from How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland (November 2017) by Douglas Grindle. Prologue In the faded photo a woman stands in bright sunlight in the middle of a poor … Continue reading Excerpt: How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
The following collection of excerpts are from Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time, edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien (November 2017). In recent years, talking about the environment has required the … Continue reading EXCERPT: Thinking Continental
The following is an excerpt from In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains (Bison Books, 2015) by James W. Hewitt. Located in the remote and hilly land north and west of Cambridge, Nebraska, in the southwestern quarter of the … Continue reading Excerpt: In Cold Storage
The following has been excerpted from Perishing Heathens: Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America by Julius H. Rubin (October 2017). Rubin is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph. His other books include Tears of Repentance: Christian … Continue reading Excerpt: Perishing Heathens
The following is the foreword by Wesley Clark from The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point (September 2017) by Tom Carhart. Clark is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, Vietnam War veteran, and valedictorian of the West Point class of ’66. Over … Continue reading Excerpt: The Golden Fleece
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