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Excerpt: Pakistan and American Diplomacy

May 20, 2024May 14, 2024 univnebpress

Currently serving again in South Asia as a counterterrorism program advisor, Ted Craig retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after twenty-nine years and two tours in Islamabad, Pakistan, the second as political counselor. He also served three tours in Latin America and … Continue reading Excerpt: Pakistan and American Diplomacy

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Excerpt: Storytelling in Kabuki

May 2, 2024April 30, 2024 univnebpress

Steen Ledet Christiansen is a professor of culture, media, and aesthetics at Aalborg University. He is the author of Drone Age Cinema: Action Films and Sensory Assault and The New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings. His latest book Storytelling in “Kabuki”: An Exploration of … Continue reading Excerpt: Storytelling in Kabuki

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Excerpt: Journey to Freedom

April 26, 2024April 16, 2024 univnebpress

Gail Shaffer Blankenau is a professional genealogist, historian, speaker, and author. She holds an MA degree in history from the University of Nebraska–Kearney, and in 2023 she received the James L. Sellers prize for her article about the Grayson sisters in … Continue reading Excerpt: Journey to Freedom

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Excerpt: My Grandfather’s Altar

April 23, 2024April 16, 2024 univnebpress

Richard Moves Camp (Oglala Lakota) is a fifth-generation Lakota healer, tribal historian, and spiritual leader. He teaches at Sinte Gleska University and lectures on Lakota history, culture, and traditions. In 2021 he was named a Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow. Simon J. Joseph is … Continue reading Excerpt: My Grandfather’s Altar

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Excerpt: Origins of the Syma Species

April 17, 2024April 11, 2024 univnebpress

Tares Oburumu lives in Yenagoa, the south side of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He is the winner of the Green Author Prize for poetry. His works have appeared in Connotation Press, Bluepepper, Woven Tales Press, Afrocritik, and Eunoia Review, among many other journals. His … Continue reading Excerpt: Origins of the Syma Species

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Excerpt: Under Jackie’s Shadow

April 15, 2024April 8, 2024 univnebpress

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of law in the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at the Villanova University School of Law. He is the author of several books, including Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original (Nebraska, 2020), God … Continue reading Excerpt: Under Jackie’s Shadow

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Excerpt: The Bower Atmosphere

April 3, 2024March 27, 2024 univnebpress

Victoria Lamont is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Westerns: A Women’s History (Nebraska, 2016) and coauthor of Judith Merril: A Critical Study. Her most recent book is The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Bower Atmosphere

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Excerpt: Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country

March 22, 2024March 13, 2024 univnebpress

Mark Fiege is a professor of history and Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University. He is the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Michael J. Lansing is a professor of history at … Continue reading Excerpt: Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country

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From the Desk of Henry James: March 18, 1888

March 18, 2024March 11, 2024 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 18, 1888

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Excerpt: The Gas and Flame Men

March 5, 2024March 1, 2024 univnebpress

Jim Leeke is a former news journalist, a retired copywriter and creative director, and a U.S. Navy veteran. He is the author of several books, including The Turtle and the Dreamboat (Potomac Books, 2022), The Best Team Over There (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: The Gas and Flame Men

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