Books The Hole Truth Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics Bill Felber Review on Golf: “This exercise is fun and well-written. Whether it will convince you which golfer is better at or over a given time period remains … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is from the introduction of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic, Third Edition by David Sowell (Nebraska, 2019). Six days before Christmas in 1933, it was announced that a new golf tournament would take place … Continue reading Excerpt: The Masters
Adam R. Hodge earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2013 and is now Associate Professor of History at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. He is author of Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, … Continue reading From the Desk of Adam Hodge: Enriching Experiences at Wind River
The following is an excerpt from When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope (April 2019) by Kevin Cowherd. From the Prologue Adam Jones awakens from a fitful sleep and gazes at the … Continue reading Excerpt: When the Crowd Didn’t Roar
Rick Bailey is a retired English instructor who taught writing for thirty-eight years at Henry Ford Community College in Michigan. He is the author of American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance (Nebraska, 2017) and the newest, The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and … Continue reading From the Desk of Rick Bailey: This American Smile
Books Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative Joshua A. Claybourn Reviewed by Kirkus: “Edited by attorney Claybourn, this collection addresses the possibility of a shared narrative within a country divided by political polarization… A mixed-bag collection … Continue reading News and Reviews
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The Virginia Festival of the Book brings together writers and readers to promote and celebrate books, reading, literacy, and literary culture over five days in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. The 25th annual Virginia Festival of the Book begins today and … Continue reading Virginia Festival of the Book
Susan Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (Nebraska, 2017) and Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds (NYU Press, 2014). Bare Life, … Continue reading Women’s History Month: From the Desk of Susan Falls
Books Publisher for the Masses: Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius R. Alton Lee Review in Times Literary Supplement: “Emanuel Haldeman-Julius was the publisher of the Little Blue Books, a series of paperbacks that for six decades offered American readers a wide variety of … Continue reading News and Reviews
