R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading From the Desk of R. Eli Paul
It felt like driving across another planet. I was off-roading through a stark region of cinder cones and craters. Overlapping 4×4 tracks and occasional pine trees were the most familiar terrestrial features. Welcome to a warm June evening several years ago in the Cinder Hills OHV Area in Northern Arizona. Continue reading Becoming a Space Age Adventurer: The Story Behind a Book Combining Space Sites with Space Stories
Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, … Continue reading From the Desk of Margaret Jacobs: Reflections on the Supreme Court case, Haaland v. Brackeen
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
David K. Seitz is associate professor of Cultural Geography at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He is the author of A Different ‘Trek’: Radical Geographies of ‘Deep Space Nine’ (Nebraska, 2023), and A House of Prayer for All People: … Continue reading From the Desk of David K. Seitz: On the Political Uses of ‘Star Trek’
Rob Goldman is the author of three baseball books, Once They Were Angels, Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher, and the novel Hauling Time. His book The Sisterhood: The 99ers and the Rise of U.S. Women’s Soccer was published in November … Continue reading From the Desk of Rob Goldman: “Are You with Me?”
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Hansson: The Symptom of Sweden’s Racial Crises
Timothy Schaffert is the author of numerous books, including The Perfume Thief (Knopf Doubleday, 2021) and The Swan Gondola (Riverhead, January 2014). He is a series editor of Zero Street Fiction which is committed to LGBTQ+ literary fiction with commercial potential. The … Continue reading Remembering Louis Crompton: The Inspiration for Zero Street Fiction
Hilary Zaid is the author of the award-winning novel Paper is White. Her short works have appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, Southwest Review, and Utne Reader, and have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her newest book, Forget I Told You This, is the … Continue reading From the Desk of Hilary Zaid: The Necessary Edit, the Necessary Project
Venetia Hobson Lewis worked at several stock brokerages and for almost eighteen years as a corporate paralegal for a motion picture studio. She is the author of several award-winning Western short stories. Her newest book, Changing Woman: A Novel of … Continue reading From the Desk of Venetia Hobson Lewis: Finding the Women’s Voices Lost to Time
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