Enjoy an excerpt from Olympic Collision: The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd (Nebraska, 2015) by Kyle Keiderling in honor of the Boston Marathon and Joeth Zucco, Senior Project Editor at UNP, who is running in the race. Good luck, … Continue reading Excerpt: Olympic Collision
The following is an excerpt from Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey (Nebraska, 2017) by Ila Jane Borders with Jean Hastings Ardell. Ila Jane Borders is the first woman to win a men’s professional baseball game. She has been honored twice at … Continue reading Excerpt: Making My Pitch
The following is an excerpt from Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (Nebraska, March 2017) by Sonya Huber. Huber is an associate professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Opa Nobody (Nebraska, 2008), Cover Me: … Continue reading Excerpt: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys
The following is an excerpt from The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas (Nebraska, 2009) by Alan Jay Zaremba. Tuesday Night, March 13, 2007 I Love Virginia I’m waiting for my flight to Las Vegas … Continue reading Excerpt: The Madness of March
The following is an excerpt from There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and Many Others (Potomac Books, March 2017) by William Daniels, an actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. … Continue reading Excerpt: There I Go Again
The following is an excerpt from Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women’s Basketball Classic (Nebraska, 2011) by Jeff Goldberg. This book and others are now on sale now for March Madness. CHAPTER ONE Storrs, March 6, 2001 Sue … Continue reading Excerpt: Bird at the Buzzer
The following poems have been excerpted from The Woods Are On Fire: New and Selected Poems by Fleda Brown (March 2017). The Gospel Truth The Confederate soldiers came for the freed slaves. They had not thought to escape but had been freed … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Woods Are On Fire
The following excerpt comes from Screening the System: Exposing Security Clearance Dangers (February 2017) by Martha Louise Deutscher. From Chapter 1: The Many Faces of a Threat Ethnicity, Nationality, and Other Threats When Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Franklin … Continue reading Excerpt: Screening the System
The following is excerpted from Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama and Early Modern England by Ann C. Christensen (Nebraska 2016). The Drama of Separate Spheres, a New Critical Approach The four tragedies and the little-known hybrid play in this study could be called … Continue reading Excerpt: Separation Scenes
The following excerpt comes from Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers by Gerald R. Gems (February 2017). From Chapter 3: When Great Wasn’t Good Enough Sam Ransom’s Journey from Athlete to Activist The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, … Continue reading Excerpt: Before Jackie Robinson
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