This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary and as the National Park Foundation said, “the Centennial is more than a birthday. We want people everywhere to embrace the opportunities to explore, learn, be inspired or simply have fun in … Continue reading From the desk of Michael J. Dax #FindYourPark
Will Fowler is a professor of Latin American studies at the University of St Andrews where he is the current Head of the School of Modern Languages. He is the author and editor of over fifteen titles including Santa Anna … Continue reading From the desk of Will Fowler: Understanding Nineteenth-Century Mexican Insurrectionary Politics
Brian E. Fogarty is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Saint Catherine University, St. Paul, MN. He is the author of Fascism: Why Not Here? (Potomac Books, 2011) and War, Peace, and the Social Order. He currently blogs at befogarty.wordpress.com. Imagine this scenario: the … Continue reading From the desk of Brian E. Fogarty: Fascism in America?
Steve Smith is an award-winning communications professional who lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the author of Forever Red: More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan (September 2015). Follow Steve on Twitter. It’s almost over. In less than a week, the University … Continue reading From the desk of Steve Smith: This Season
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
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