The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian edited by Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton “In this wonderful book, readers are presented with more than 900 individual pictographs signifying several centuries of tribal knowledge. . . . Taken together, these fascinating images provide an alternative history of the American West as written by those who were there in the beginning and remain there now. Like the Bayeux Tapestry—the embroidered cloth that preserves a visual history of the Battle of Hastings—these images challenge written recollection and revisit history in a way that takes us away from our … Continue reading More Praise for The Year the Stars Fell

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody “The story of the Moody family is told without embellishment in a simple, straight-forward style. It is especially suited for reading aloud as a family. The difficulties Ralph faces, the mishaps and consequences, will provoke quality discussions with middle schoolers and older students, although children as young as third grade will enjoy and benefit from the story.”—Homeschooling Today Continue reading Praise for Little Britches

In Praise of Flattery by Willis Goth Regier “[T]he book contains many gems: exquisite, entertaining, carefully chosen words by the obscure . . . and the mighty.”—Christine Schwartz Hartley, Bookforum To read earlier praise for In Praise of Flattery, please visit http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/11/praise-for-in-p.html. Continue reading More Praise for In Praise of Flattery

Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice “Like a pilot photographing terrain for a map, [Brice] captures her family . . . and friends in a broad and clear vision. . . . Indeed, every person who graces the pages of her narrative is writ generously, fairly and kindly, with a fascination that rekindles our own sense of wonder at the lives we think we know most intimately— those of our parents, close friends, co-workers, but also the collective lives of our homes and our environment.”—Nina Murray, Lincoln Journal Star To read earlier praise for Unlearning to Fly, please visit http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/10/praise-for-unle.html. Continue reading More Praise for Unlearning to Fly

Westward Thinking In honor of one of our new November books, The American West, Second Edition: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present by Richard W. Etulian and Michael P. Malone, this installment of “Tuesday Trivia” will test your knowledge of the Western states. Determine whether each statement below is true or false. If you answer them all correctly, we won’t send you on an all-expense paid trip out west to California, but we will send you on a “virtual pictorial tour.” (See picture below at right.) Not enough of an incentive? Well, let’s see how you do, anyway… True … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia

On the surface, I appear to be the perfect potential Kindle customer: book lover, gadget lover, possessing low willpower, and very good at rationalizing impulse purchases. When I first saw the Kindle of course I wanted one. But once I thought about it even a little bit, I realized first that I don’t need one (well, duh), but most importantly I decided that I don’t even really want one. Here’s why: It only does one thing. I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want in my purse is another thing to carry around. I already consolidated my … Continue reading One Book Lover’s Opinion on Kindle

If you’re a scholar or devoted reader of Native American or Texas and southwestern U.S. history, you don’t want to forego the chance to read Chevato. And don’t let the subtitle—The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann—bias your expectations. UNP’s November addition to the American Indian Lives Series combines enthohistory with extensive traditional historical research and narrative to tell not only the story of Chevato’s life but also the much broader and complicated story of Native American resistance and survival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The life of the Apache warrior and … Continue reading Chevato added to the American Indian Lives Series; a dominant theme is 19th- and 20th-century Apache life on the U.S.-Mexico border

The Complete Letters of Henry James,, edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias Vols. 1 and 2 “[T]he general public has been deprived of James’s full epistolary record until now. . . . All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated, which inaugurate a complete edition in some 140 volumes, and to feel gratitude toward the editors and the University of Nebraska Press.”—Peter Brooks, Bookforum Read earlier praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James, Volumes I and II at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/01/praise_for_the__2.html. Continue reading More Praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James, Volumes I and II