Jim Minick is the author or editor of seven books, including the award-winning Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Poets and Writers, Oxford American, Orion, and Shenandoah. His latest … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Minick: The Tornado and the Flood
John Dechant is the author of several books, including Scoreless: Omaha Central, Creighton Prep, and Nebraska’s Greatest High School Football Game (Bison Books, 2016). His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines and the Golfer’s Journal. He is the president of the publishing … Continue reading From the Desk of John Dechant: Paul Runyan–A Pro’s Pro
Lawrence A. Dwyer is an attorney at law in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a member of the Nebraska Bar Association and served on the board of directors of the Douglas County Historical Society. He is the author of Standing Bear’s Quest … Continue reading From the Desk of Lawrence Dwyer: Honoring Standing Bear’s legacy with USPS Forever Stamp
Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published numerous articles on … Continue reading From the Desk of Fredric Brandfon: A Policy of Silence; the Vatican and the Holocaust
Michael K. Johnson is Professor of American literature at the University of Maine at Farmington. His books include Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) as well as two biographies, Can’t … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael K. Johnson: Speculative Visions of the American West
Terese Svoboda has published four of her books of fiction with the University of Nebraska Press: the recently released Dog on Fire, Bohemian Girl and the reprints Tin God and Trailer Girl and Other Stories. She has also published a … Continue reading From the Desk of Terese Svoboda: Not Settling
Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History at University of the Pacific. She is author of American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (2017) and co-editor of Girlhood: A Global History (2012). … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Helgren: March is the Birthday Month of Camp Fire and Girl Scouts
William C. Kashatus is a historian, educator, and the author of more than twenty books, including Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code (Nebraska, 2017) and Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color … Continue reading From the Desk of William C. Kashatus: Remembering Tim McCarver
Yael Mabat is a research fellow at the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American Studies and a lecturer of history at Ben-Gurion University. She is the author of Sacrifice and Regeneration: Seventh-day Adventism and Religious Transformation in the Andes (Nebraska, 2022) which … Continue reading From the Desk of Yael Mabat: On Creating Sacrifice and Regeneration
Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is author of the award-winning book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North … Continue reading From the Desk of Brenden W. Rensink: Engaging the Present with the Past
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