The following is an excerpt from Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War (January 2018) by Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Ailes is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of Military Migration and State Formation: The British … Continue reading Excerpt: Courage and Grief
The Moroccan Soul: French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956 (Nebraska, 2009) by Spencer D. Segalla was the eleventh book published in the France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. It was an innovative study of the French education system … Continue reading New in paperback
What a year 2017 has been—the University of Nebraska Press launched three new academic book series, welcomed a new marketing manager to the team, and had many of our books appear in national media year-round. Here are some of our … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Best of 2017
As the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entering the Great War comes to a close, we asked authors Chris Dubbs (American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting) and Ray Moseley (Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, … Continue reading From the Desks of Chris Dubbs and Ray Moseley: Reporting War and Controlling the News
The following excerpt is from Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean by Christopher M. Church (December 2017). Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration At five-thirty in the morning on 3 May 1902, the young schoolteacher Roger Portel awoke to … Continue reading Excerpt: Paradise Destroyed
The following is by Nicole Tonkovich, professor of American literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance (Nebraska, 2012). Additionally, she wrote the new … Continue reading From the Desk of Nicole Tonkovich: Chief of War, Chief of Peace
The following is an excerpt from Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds by B. J. Hollars (Nebraska, 2017). Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. From Chapter 8: The Christmas Count On … Continue reading Excerpt: The Christmas Count
Books Glenn Miller Declassified Dennis M. Spragg Features in Mirror and Daily Mail. Defying Expectations Simon and Susan Veness Feature in MLS Soccer: “The book chronicles travails of the Orlando owner, from his rise to riches from a working-class upbringing in Stoke-on-Trent, his losing battle … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is by Anne O’Neil-Henry, author of Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France (December 2017). O’Neil-Henry is an assistant professor of French at Georgetown University. While completing the third chapter of my book, Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in … Continue reading From the Desk of Anne O’Neil-Henry: Serial Stories, Then and Now
December Staff Reading List As readers and book lovers, nothing makes us happier than to give—or receive—books for any occasion. Here’s a list of the best books we’ve ever given, or been given. Gang of One: Memoirs of a … Continue reading The Gift of Reading
