Roger Gilles is a writing professor at Grand Valley State University and the author of Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing (October 2018). At this year’s Tour de France, women cyclists were once more doing … Continue reading Women’s Bicycling from 1896 to today: Still Fighting to Ride
Jackson Michael is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and the Maxwell Football Club and the author of The Game Before the Money (Nebraska, 2014). How does it feel to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of … Continue reading Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductees
David C. Posthumus, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of anthropology and Native American studies at the University of South Dakota and is the author of All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual (July 2018). We Are All Related Mitákuye oyás’į is … Continue reading From the Desk of David Posthumus: We Are All Related
The 2018 Nebraska Book Festival is one month away! This year’s festival will be on Saturday, August 25 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus Union. The day-long festival will feature hands-on activities for children (and adults), writing panels, and … Continue reading 2018 Nebraska Book Festival
On this day in 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft safely returned to Earth from the moon. This excerpt from Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Nebraska, 2015) gives insight to the weight of this accomplishment. From Chapter 7: A Bunch … Continue reading OTD in 1969: Apollo 11 Returns to Earth
Books America’s Digital Army: Games At Work and War Robertson Allen Review from Michigan War Studies Review: “Robertson Allen convincingly demonstrates that America’s Army has blurred the old, neat margins between local and global, real and virtual, in a new ‘globital’ era … Continue reading News and Reviews
Scott Ferguson is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He is a research scholar at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His new book is in the Provocations series. … Continue reading From the Desk of Scott Ferguson: The Standpoint of Redemption
Cheryl Toman is a professor of French, African Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Case Western Reserve University where she is also Chair of the … Continue reading From the Desk of Cheryl Toman: Justine Mintsa’s Awu’s Story
The following is adapted from The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game by Michael Agovino, now available in paperback. Agovino recently wrote for the Washington Post about the US hosting another World Cup in 2026. … Continue reading The Soccer Diaries: When The World Cup Semifinal Came to New York
Mark Hollabaugh is author of The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos (Nebraska, 2017). His book examines nineteenth-century Lakota astronomy and its connection to their spirituality. The Spirit and the Sky will be available in paperback this … Continue reading From the Desk of Mark Hollabaugh: The Night the Stars will Fall
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