Sylvain Pattieu is a lecturer in history at University of Paris 8. He is the author of several books written and published in French. Emmanuelle Sibeud is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 8. She is the author of … Continue reading Excerpt: The Black Populations of France
Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche) is the Wick Cary Chair of Native American Cultural Studies in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms. His newest book, Cinematic Comanches … Continue reading Excerpt: Cinematic Comanches
Sarah Deutsch is a professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Making a Modern U.S. West
Deborah Bauer is an associate professor of history at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her book, Marianne Is Watching (Nebraska, 2021), is new this month. Introduction Baroness Lucie von Kaulla was an ambitious young woman from Austrian high society who married, and … Continue reading Excerpt: Marianne Is Watching
Paul Barba is an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University. His book, Country of the Cursed and Driven (Nebraska, 2021), is new this month. Part I Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s–1760s On May 12, 1745, a party … Continue reading Excerpt: Country of the Cursed and Driven
Henrietta Tongkeamha (1912–93) lived and documented her experiences raising a family in southwestern Oklahoma. Raymond Tongkeamha left home in the 1960s and encountered the world beyond southwestern Oklahoma through military service and jobs in Oklahoma City, Dallas, and elsewhere before returning to the … Continue reading Excerpt: Stories from Saddle Mountain
Alison Lewis is a professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing and Cold War … Continue reading Excerpt: A State of Secrecy
Scott Eastman is a professor of history at Creighton University. He is the author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823 and A Missionary Nation (Nebraska, 2021), which is now available. Introduction Race and Empire What did race and empire … Continue reading Excerpt: A Missionary Nation
Diane J. Purvis taught cultural history at Alaska Pacific University for twenty-five years. She is the author of The Drive of Civilization: The Stikine Forest versus Americanism. Her newest book, Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves (Nebraska, 2021), is now available. Introduction What does … Continue reading Excerpt: Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves
Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History at the University of South Dakota. She is the coeditor of Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains and … Continue reading Excerpt: Grasslands Grown
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