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Excerpt: A Giant among Giants

March 17, 2025March 13, 2025 univnebpress

Chris Haft has spent nearly thirty years covering Major League Baseball, including fourteen seasons on the Giants beat: 2005–6, with the San Jose Mercury News, and 2007–18, for MLB.com. He is the author of If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the San … Continue reading Excerpt: A Giant among Giants

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Excerpt: Unsettling Cather

March 10, 2025March 6, 2025 univnebpress

Marilee Lindemann is an associate professor of English and executive director of College Park Scholars at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Willa Cather: Queering America and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather and editions … Continue reading Excerpt: Unsettling Cather

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Cover of "Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry" edited by Ted Kooser

Excerpt: Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry

February 24, 2025February 14, 2025 univnebpress

Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–2006) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is a retired presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Cotton Candy (Nebraska, 2022); Kindest Regards: Poems, … Continue reading Excerpt: Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry

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Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America

February 17, 2025February 14, 2025 univnebpress

Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Her book Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Nebraska, 2025) is the … Continue reading Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America

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Excerpt: Taking Charge, Making Change

February 10, 2025February 3, 2025 univnebpress

Robert W. Galler Jr. is a professor of history at St. Cloud State University. His new book Taking Chage, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School (Nebraska, 2025) was published in … Continue reading Excerpt: Taking Charge, Making Change

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Excerpt: Star Bound

February 3, 2025January 29, 2025 univnebpress

Emily Carney is a former nuclear technician for the U.S. Navy and an accomplished space journalist. She is the manager of public engagement and social media for the Space 3.0 Foundation, founder of the popular spaceflight group Space Hipsters, and cohost … Continue reading Excerpt: Star Bound

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Excerpt: Swallowing a World

January 29, 2025January 22, 2025 univnebpress

Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. His new book Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Nebraska, 2024) was published in October. Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Swallowing a World

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Excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry

January 27, 2025January 22, 2025 univnebpress

Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. She is a columnist for High Country News and formerly Indian Country Today. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s, and more. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry

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Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments

January 21, 2025January 17, 2025 univnebpress

Oriol Ambrogio Gali is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. His latest book Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 was published by Nebraska in December. Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of … Continue reading Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments

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Excerpt: The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral

January 13, 2025January 6, 2025 univnebpress

Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 (Potomac Books, 2020) and Murder in Manchuria (Potomac Books, 2023). His latest book The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story … Continue reading Excerpt: The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral

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