David Brauer is a communications, public relations, and marketing professional with more than two decades spent in the sports industry. His experience includes leadership in NCAA Division I athletics and summer collegiate baseball. A former baseball publicist at two Division I … Continue reading The College World Series and the Wizard of College Baseball
Mary Klann is a lecturer in U.S. history and Native American history at the University of California–San Diego. Her most recent book Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America was published by … Continue reading “Who is to gain?” Wardship and Indian Citizenship after the Indian Citizenship Act
Eva-Maria Maggi, PhD, is a writer, social scientist, and packer and teaches courses on wilderness issues at the University of Montana. She is coauthor of Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness with Arnold “Smoke” Elser, … Continue reading From the Desk of Eva-Maria Maggi: Notes from the “Hush of the Land” tour bus
As CAST OUT OF EDEN rolls off the press, keep in mind that commonplace saying, “You can’t tell a book by its cover.” Like a lot of things we’ve been told, that’s just plain wrong. Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Aquinas McNally: On Judging a Book by Its Cover
Dr. Kevin M. Anzzolin, Lecturer of Spanish, arrived at Christopher Newport University in 2021, where he teaches a wide range of classes. His book, Guardians of Discourse: Literature and Journalism in Porfirian Mexico, will be published this month with the … Continue reading From the Desk of Kevin M. Anzzolin: What’s New in Mexican Journalism?
Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and author of Urban Shocker (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and The World Series in the Deadball Era. Lyle Spatz is the author of many baseball books and the coauthor … Continue reading From the Desks of Steve Steinberg & Lyle Spatz: Mike Donlin
Philip Burnham is a retired associate professor of composition at George Mason University, a former reporter for Indian Country Today, and a freelance writer. He is the author of Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and the National Parks and Song of Dewey Beard: Last … Continue reading From the Desk of Philip Burnham: Behind The Education of Clarence Three Stars
Tim Manners is a writer, communications consultant, and baseball fan. He is the coauthor of the memoir Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero (Nebraska, 2024). To learn more visit: https://schoolboyhoyt.com/ or follow the author on Facebook. Waite Hoyt’s life … Continue reading From the Desk of Tim Manners: A Ghostwriter’s Journey
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
Patrice Gopo is the author of Autumn Song: Essays on Absence. She lives with her family in North Carolina, where she enjoys walks just after dawn and thinks a perfect day ends with ice cream. Please visit patricegopo.com to learn more. Terra Trevor … Continue reading Patrice Gopo and Terra Trevor on Craft, Community, and the Art of the Essay
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