ICYMI Teaser trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, inspired by The Bass Reeves Trilogy in Dallas Morning News Reviews Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become? Review in Publishers Weekly: “Hartman adroitly argues that ‘as long as the story we … Continue reading News & Reviews
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
ICYMI Daybreak at Chavez Ravine in People’s Magazine Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Land & Climate Review: “In Mine Mine Mine, the sanctity of the body, love, and family all suffer a perverse inversion for the sake of mining a wealth from … Continue reading News & Reviews
ICYMI Continental Reckoning on CPSAN-2 Reviews The Time Left Between Us Review in Broad Street Review: “The Time Left Between Us is a gripping new book by local author Alicia DeFonzo who documents her grandfather’s journey serving in World War II, … Continue reading News & Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Bison Books, June 2022) by C. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Under Prairie Skies
Reviews Oracle of Lost Causes Review in Publisher’s Weekly: “In this detailed yet disjointed account, historian Hulbert (Martial Culture, Silver Screen) profiles John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), a Missouri Confederate and editorial writer who rose to ‘B-list celebrity’ as he navigated … Continue reading News & Reviews
John R. Wunder, renowned historian, author, and professor passed away on June 25, 2023 at the age of 78. The Western History Association writes that John Wunder was a “generalist in the best sense of the word,” publishing on a … Continue reading Remembering John R. Wunder
The annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) began yesterday in Chicago and will last through the weekend. Open to all baseball fans, the meeting includes top featured speakers from around the baseball world—front office executives, players, managers, … Continue reading UNP at SABR’s 51st Annual Convention
Awards Will Rogers Medallion John Mort’s Oklahoma Odyssey and Ella Cara Deloria’s Dakota Way of Life are both finalists Foreword INDIES Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction is a Silver Winner for Autobiography & Memoir Andrew Farkas’ The Great Indoorsman … Continue reading News & Reviews
Curtis H. Freese, author of Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife, will present themes from his new book during a webinar hosted by the Great Plains Conservation Network to discuss the mission to … Continue reading Virtual Event with Curtis H. Freese
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