John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball (Nebraska, 2023) is the perfect book to pick up during the Husker Volleyball season! Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story is the first book … Continue reading Upcoming Events Schedule for John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball
Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor of early modern European history in the Department of History and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: … Continue reading Excerpt: Bad Subjects
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, which established the National Park Service. Today, we celebrate National Park Service Founders Day to recognize the conservation and preservation efforts of the National Parks System covering more than … Continue reading National Park Service Founders Day List
Reviews Small but Important Riots Review in StrategyPage: “This is a remarkable book. Author O’Neill first wrote on this subject, and with this title, thirty years ago. But over the course of the last thirty years, he has continued to … Continue reading News & Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to announce the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2023: Julie Choffel and her manuscript Dear Wallace. “I’m thrilled that Dear Wallace won this prize and honored to work with … Continue reading Announcing the 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry Winner
The April Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education about fascist and antifascist movements in the United States. We seek to learn from past efforts to resist fascist threats and to build more democratic and mutually supportive … Continue reading Confronting the American Eugenics Movement: A Conversation with Julie Carr
R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading From the Desk of R. Eli Paul
It felt like driving across another planet. I was off-roading through a stark region of cinder cones and craters. Overlapping 4×4 tracks and occasional pine trees were the most familiar terrestrial features. Welcome to a warm June evening several years ago in the Cinder Hills OHV Area in Northern Arizona. Continue reading Becoming a Space Age Adventurer: The Story Behind a Book Combining Space Sites with Space Stories
With the fall semester starting soon, we have prepared a list of titles to help you brush up on something familiar or take a dive into a new fascinating subject. History Richard Nixon PAUL CARTER Richard Nixon is the story … Continue reading Back to School Reading List
Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, … Continue reading From the Desk of Margaret Jacobs: Reflections on the Supreme Court case, Haaland v. Brackeen
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