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More Praise for Opa Nobody

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Opa Nobody by Sonya Huber “In every chapter, [Huber] weaves stories of her activist life with richly imagined scenes of her grandfather, reconstructing his life from anecdotes and documentary evidence. . . . By connecting with history on such a personal level, she reveals how ordinary citizens can get swept up into movements of all kinds; allegiance is never as simple as a membership card. Most radically of all for a progressive activist, Huber embraces the past. Instead of tossing it all out in search of something new, she ties a firm knot between then and now.”—Karrie Higgins, Los Angeles … Continue reading More Praise for Opa Nobody

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This Week in History: March 30-April 4, 2008

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As we make our foray into April, I can’t help but think, “Where did the first quarter of this year go?” I can’t believe that the first part of this year is now, well, history. Before another month flies by, let’s take a look at what happened… This Week in History March 30, 1870: Texas was readmitted to the Union.Interested in the Civil-War-era history of the rebel state of Texas? If so, you won’t want to miss Texas, the Dark Corner of the Confederacy by B. P. Gallaway. The book contains forty documents dating from the eve of the Civil … Continue reading This Week in History: March 30-April 4, 2008

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UNP Author Announced as Guggenheim Fellow

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Robin Hemley, author of Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), was announced as a recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in a press release distributed by the Guggenheim Foundation on April 3rd. The fellowship was awarded to 190 artists, scientists, and scholars from a pool of more than 2,600 applicants. To view the Guggenheim Foundation press release and for a link to the full list of this year’s recipients, click here. Congratulations to Robin on this high honor! Continue reading UNP Author Announced as Guggenheim Fellow

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Local Event Alert!

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Nebraska residents will want to mark their calendars for an appearance, reading, and signing by celebrated local author William Kloefkorn at the O Street Barnes & Noble in Lincoln on Saturday, April 26th. He will read from Restoring the Burnt Child, the second volume in the author’s four-part memoir, which will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Negotiating the no man’s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy’s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. The event is part of National Poetry … Continue reading Local Event Alert!

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Linking in Lincoln: April 3, 2008

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Eat, Link, and Be Merry A new Bison Books edition of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food by Gregory McNamee is available this month from UNP. In its pages, McNamee details the myriad of ways in which food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation over the course of human history. Moveable Feasts gathers revelations from history, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and many other fields and spins them into entertaining tales of discovery while adding more than ninety delicious recipes from various culinary traditions around the world, all of which have … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: April 3, 2008