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This Week in History: October 13-17, 2008

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 Well readers, it has been quite a week. The University of Nebraska Press author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. His titles published with the University of Nebraska Press include Onitsha and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts. Also this week in history: October 13, 1969: World Series. Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski  is the first person to end a world series with a home run.     The World Series always ends with a bang. No one knows this better than Shoeless Joe Jackson, when he defended his innocence against allegations that he … Continue reading This Week in History: October 13-17, 2008

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Linking in Lincoln: October 16, 2008

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Tuesday Trivia: October 13, 2008

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New this month from the University of Nebraska Press, is The Grace Abbot Reader edited by John Sorensen and Judith Sealander.  Grace Abbot (1878-1939) was a “tireless and brilliant social reformer” in the early parts of the twentieth century. She used her writing talent to help develop social programs devoted to mothers, children, immigrants, and child laborers.  U.S Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said he didn’t think “the American experience would disclose a finer illustration of the rare art of public administration” than Abbott. Taking a nod from Ms. Abbott, Tuesday Trivia is going to provide a few facts about … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: October 13, 2008

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Off the Shelf: Personal Record by Rachel Toor

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Personal_record Read from the opening piece, "Toeing the Line" of Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running by Rachel Toor:

"I like to call it "The Oprah Effect."

Oprah said to us: If I can do it, anyone can. She had excellent professional trainers, and she did it surrounded by a coterie of helpers. But even the richest woman in the world couldn’t pay someone to run a marathon for her. Oprah Winfrey had to take every step of the 1995 Marine Corps Marathon on her own. She finished in 4:29. This feat, heroic in its way, spawned a cottage industry of silly tee-shirts that said "I beat Oprah." But Oprah encouraged scores—hundreds, thousands—of middle-aged women, who looked in the mirror and did not see the whippet-thin shape of a distance runner, to hit the roads and start training for a 26.2miler. Oprah inspired a bunch of swaggering men to want to go out and beat her time. Al Gore ran the same race two years later. He finished in 4:58."

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University of Nebraska Press Title Launches to Space

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LINCOLN, Neb., October 10, 2008 – Richard Garriott, son of University of Nebraska Press author Owen K. Garriott, will become the sixth private client to head into space. Richard will climb aboard the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft for a ten-day trip and stay on the International Space Station. Richard’s launch will take place on Sunday, October 12th at 3:00 A.M. EDT. He plans on including in his personal effects photographs of the book cover of his father’s forthcoming title, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Nebraska, 2008).  Richard’s father, Owen K. Garriott, is a former NASA astronaut—and one of the first six … Continue reading University of Nebraska Press Title Launches to Space

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Congratulations to University of Nebraska Press author, 2008 Laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

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The Swedish Academy announcement yesterday featured French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio as the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature for a lifetime of successful works. Le Clézio is one of 105 persons since 1901 to have received this award.  As one of France’s best-known contemporary writers, he has published nearly 30 novels, essays and short stories.  Le Clézio is the author of Onitsha (Nebraska, 1997) and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (Nebraska, 2003), published by University of Nebraska Press. “Before there was multiculturalism, there was the work of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Le Clézio spins words which … Continue reading Congratulations to University of Nebraska Press author, 2008 Laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

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This Week in History: October 6-10, 2008

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We have a great week of facts for you. Everything from the 1919 World Series scandal to the Day of Six Billion, six billion people that is. Oh, and there are a few great books too…. Care to join me? October 8, 2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. War has always led to a change in any society. For Americans after 9/11 and the start of the ‘war on terror’, this was Homeland Security. To see the how other societies may have been affected by non-peaceful times, check out World History … Continue reading This Week in History: October 6-10, 2008

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Linking in Lincoln: October 9, 2008

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New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation by Samuel L. Broadnax. After a love of flying and years spent as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base, Samuel Broadnax began to research the experiences of other black pilots and “pioneers” of aviation. This book is a culmination of those tales, from Charles Wesley Peters who flew his own plane in  1911, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies. This week Linking in Lincoln will pay tribute to the struggles and fights of these men with … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 9, 2008