Kyle Bladow is an assistant professor of Native American studies at Northland College. Jennifer Ladino is an associate professor of English at the University of Idaho. Their edited collection, Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment, is now available. Confronting Climate Grief After the frightening ICC … Continue reading From the Desks of Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino: Confronting Climate Grief
Denise I. Bossy has fifteen years of experience as a historian studying the early Native South. She is the editor of The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina (Nebraska, 2018). American Indian History is Local History I am a local … Continue reading From the Desk of Denise I. Bossy: American Indian History is Local History
Mark Spitzer loves fish and he loves to fish. As a nationally known author (Seasons of the Gar, Return of the Gar), writing about fish and their issues is what he does best. In this blog series, Spitzer shares his experiences … Continue reading Where in the West is Mark Spitzer?
This Sunday, November 25, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Upton Sinclair’s death. Below Lauren Coodley reminds readers of the importance of Sinclair’s work. Coodley is a historian … Continue reading Upton Sinclair’s Cry for Justice
Chris Dubbs is a military historian living in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher. He is the author of America’s U-Boats: Terror Trophies of World War I (Nebraska, 2014) and American Journalists in the Great … Continue reading From the Desk of Chris Dubbs: Storytelling and Myth Making in WWI
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is history and makes a stop at our blog with a post from Jon K. Lauck, adjunct professor of history and political science at the University of South Dakota and … Continue reading University Press Week: History
This Sunday, communities around the country will set aside time to remember those who’ve served on Veterans Day. Marian Eide, one of the editors of After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2018) examines some of the complicated … Continue reading From the Desk of Marian Eide: On veterans and giving thanks
Marjorie Worthington is a professor of English and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Eastern Illinois University. Worthington is the author of The Story of “Me”: Contemporary American Autofiction (November 2018). I define an autofiction* as a novel that … Continue reading From the Desk of Marjorie Worthington: Real People Are Boring
Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning and the author of more than forty books, and wrote the introduction to Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building … Continue reading From the Desk of Roger Welsch: The Importance of the Omaha Language
Dr. Katherine Ellinghaus is a Hansen Lecturer in the department of history at the University of Melbourne and Barry Judd is a professor of Indigenous Social Research at Charles Darwin University, based on the Alice Springs campus. Ellinghaus is also … Continue reading Elizabeth Warren and Indigeneity: An Australian Perspective
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