The following is an excerpt from The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain by Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer. It is part of the New Hispanisms series, which publishes innovative studies that … Continue reading Excerpt: The Supernatural Sublime
The following is an excerpt of Power-Lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind (July 2019) by Daniel L. Wuebben who is assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Play. When I was five years old, I … Continue reading Excerpt: Power-Lined
The following is an excerpt from Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains by Douglas Sheflin (June 2019). The dust storm that gathered momentum on April 14, 1935, the day later named Black Sunday, was only the … Continue reading Excerpt: Legacies of Dust
The following is an excerpt from The War Criminal’s Son: The Civil War Saga of William W. Winder by Jane Singer (May, 2019). Driven by Lincoln’s election on November 6, 1860, further irritating already inflamed sensibilities, ignoring the president’s pleas … Continue reading Excerpt: The War Criminal’s Son
The following is an excerpt from When Big Data Was Small: My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design by Richard D. Cramer (May 2019). Cramer started analyzing baseball statistics in the mid-1960s, after graduating from Harvard and MIT, and by 1969 … Continue reading Excerpt: When Big Data Was Small
The following is an excerpt from the forward of So Close to Freedom: A World War II Story of Peril and Betrayal in the Pyrenees by Jean-Luc E. Cartron (April 2019). Many years ago while serving in the British Army, … Continue reading Excerpt: So Close to Freedom
The following is an excerpt from Shattered Minds: How the Pentagon Fails our Troops With Faulty Helmets (Potomac Books, 2019) by Robert Bauman and Dina Rasor. … Continue reading Excerpt: Shattered Minds
The following is an excerpt from The Alphabet Bomber: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time (Potomac Books, 2019) by Jeffrey Simon. On the evening of August 8, 1974, Americans gathered around their television sets to witness an event … Continue reading Excerpt: The Alphabet Bomber
The following is an excerpt from Here’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising by Roberta J. Newman (March 2019) . From Chapter 5: Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet . . . and Beer, Cigarettes, … Continue reading Excerpt: Here’s the Pitch
The following is an excerpt from The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools by Cynthia Leanne Landrum (March 2019). From Chapter 1: Missionaries and Education in the Upper Midwest When artist George Catlin first traveled … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dakota Sioux Experience
