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Celebrating the Homestead Act

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This year is the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act and the Homestead National Monument is right here in Nebraska! Visit the National Park Service site to see events celebrating this landmark in American History. And forthcoming this September is Nancy Plain's Light on the Prairie which features 62 of Solomon D. Butcher's photographs taken of this monumentous event which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it. Continue reading Celebrating the Homestead Act

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UNP book ‘essential’

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Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader was reviewed on Strategy Page by A. A. Nofi. Nofi called the book "…an absolutely essential work for any serious student of the military aspects of the Civil War or the history of the U.S. Army and of American warmaking." Read the full review here. Continue reading UNP book ‘essential’

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Aadland wins first place prize

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Congratulations to Dan Aadland for winning the 1st place prize for book/E-book in the 2012 Excellence in Craft contest sponsored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America! His book, In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter’s Journey, is a quest to hunt Teddy Roosevelt's favorite places offering an introspective commentary on the ecology of the Northern Plains, the psyche of the West, Roosevelt's historical significance, and the culture and perceptions of hunting. Congrats again, Dan!   Continue reading Aadland wins first place prize

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Author in Publisher’s Weekly

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Susan Kushner Resnick's new book You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish (Globe Pequot/Skirt!) was reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. Resnick is also the author of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), which tells the story of the 1943 mining disaster in Bearcreek, Montana, and the women who survived the tragedy.    Continue reading Author in Publisher’s Weekly