Mississippi Band of Choctaws in front of the Supreme Court Katherine M. B. Osburn is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She is the author of Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the … Continue reading From the desk of Katherine M.B. Osburn: Dollar General v. Miss. Choctaws
Lynn Wiese Sneyd is the owner of LWS Literary Services in Tucson, AZ. She is the co-author of The Horse Lover with H. Alan Day (Nebraska 2014). I’ve been a book publicist for more than a dozen years, as well … Continue reading From the desk of Lynn Wiese Sneyd: A Book’s Life
Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division (Potomac Books, November 2015) and is donating a portion of each book’s sale to Nowzad Dogs, a nonprofit that reunites … Continue reading From the desk of Grant Hayter-Menzies: Veterans Day
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Clayton C. Anderson I’m not sure how I –being a 56-year old retired astronaut– would survive as a young person in today’s ever-changing world. As a teen, options for occupying my time were much less… Continue reading From Bookworm to Spacewalker: How Books Helped Make Me an Astronaut
David J. Peck is a retired physician and a popular, nationally recognized speaker on the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He is the author of Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark … Continue reading From the desk of David J. Peck
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Steinberg, Steve & Lyle Spatz. The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. 344. Notes and Index. $34.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Brett… Continue reading Builders of the Yankee Dynasty: Review of The Colonel and Hug
Francis Gary Powers, Jr. is the son of Francis Gary Powers who served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot … Continue reading The Bridge of Spies: The exchange of Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel
Julija Šukys is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Department of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. She is the author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life … Continue reading From the desk of Julija Šukys
Jay Gallentine is a historian and filmmaker who has spent more than ten years researching the history of unmanned spaceflight. He is the author of Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (January 2016) and Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations … Continue reading From the desk of Jay Gallentine: The Saga of Mars
Terence Smyre and Joel Puchalla form the dyad that is the editorial wing of the University of Nebraska Press’s journals department. Their offices, and hearts, share a common wall—though not a physical coronary septum, which would be weird. They envision … Continue reading Mssgng w/ Jrnls Ed
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