Mark Spitzer loves fish and he loves to fish. As a nationally known author (Seasons of the Gar, Return of the Gar), writing about fish and their issues is what he does best. In this blog series, Spitzer shares his … Continue reading Where in the West Is Mark Spitzer?
The Nebraska Book Festival is tomorrow at the University of Nebraska Omaha Weitz Community Engagement Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The festival is free and open to the public. UNP will be displaying a number of books with a Nebraska topic or Nebraska author. Here are a few notable Nebraska books to add to your shelf. The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut Nebraska native Clayton Anderson’s memoir chronicling his quest to become an astronaut. The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler Creighton University law professor Steve Seiberson recounts a series of global … Continue reading Reading List: Nebraska Book Festival
An excerpt from Growing Local: Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains edited by Robert P. King, Michael S. Hand, and Miguel I. Gómez. For more books in Our Sustainable Future Series, click here. 1 From Farms to Consumers An Introduction to Supply … Continue reading Excerpt: Growing Local
Allen C. Lynch is a Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and author of Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (Potomac Books, 2011). What Might Success Look Like? The debate over arming Ukraine in … Continue reading From the desk of Allen C. Lynch: Ukraine, Russia, and the West
Rockets and Revolution By Michael Smith Critcom review “An engaging read, Rockets & Revolution brings a variety of new sources and a refreshing perspective into the debates about the cultural dimensions of spaceflight. Weaving together technology and literature, Smith reconstructs a cultural space in which formulas and parabolas meet with symbols and parables. Both historians of astronautics and historians of literature will find some of their assumptions challenged and will benefit from reading this book.” That Dream Shall Have a Name By David Moore Studies in American Indian Literatures review “I especially appreciated the thoroughness of Moore’s … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
Jay M. Smith is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served in a variety of administrative capacities involving the management of undergraduate education. Mary Willingham worked in the Center for … Continue reading From the desk of Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham
Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor (with Lyle Spatz) of 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal, and author of Baseball in St. Louis, … Continue reading Q & A with Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz
Emily Giller is the exhibits coordinator and media planner in the marketing department. NINE March 11-14, 2015 (Tempe, AZ) UNP conference attendee: Rob Taylor, Sports Editor “For a relatively small crowd, our authors were well represented, among them: Jim Walker … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: March Exhibit Round Up
The following is an excerpt from Civil War Washington: History, Place, and Digital Scholarship (April 2015) edited by Susan C. Lawrence, from chapter eight: Poetry, Washington DC’s Hospital Newspapers, and the Civil War by Elizabeth Lorang. … The sheer numbers of poems published in the newspapers is a … Continue reading EXCERPT: Civil War Washington
An excerpt from Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War (April 2015) by Perry D. Jamieson. Excerpt is from Chapter Eight, Spring Morning. … Sunrise on Sunday, April 9, 1865, brought a foggy morning that became warm with a blue, cloudless sky.76 Before daybreak Fitz Lee and Gordon began preparing to carry out what would be the last offensive of the Army of Northern Virginia. They would attempt to move Sheridan’s cavalry out of the way and open the Stage Road west from Appomattox Court House.77 Gordon deployed his corps at the western edge of the Court House, … Continue reading EXCERPT: Spring 1865
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