The following has been excerpted from Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (Nebraska, 2011), a collection of essays edited by Jeremy Strong. This particular essay has been excerpted in honor of the picky eater at your Thanksgiving table. From “Feeding Finn” … Continue reading Excerpt: Educated Tastes
The following is an excerpt from How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland (November 2017) by Douglas Grindle. Prologue In the faded photo a woman stands in bright sunlight in the middle of a poor … Continue reading Excerpt: How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
The following has been excerpted from Perishing Heathens: Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America by Julius H. Rubin (October 2017). Rubin is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph. His other books include Tears of Repentance: Christian … Continue reading Excerpt: Perishing Heathens
The following is the foreword by Wesley Clark from The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point (September 2017) by Tom Carhart. Clark is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, Vietnam War veteran, and valedictorian of the West Point class of ’66. Over … Continue reading Excerpt: The Golden Fleece
The following excerpt comes from Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories by Venita Blackburn (September 2017). The Immolator In protest of unyielding circumstances, monks have been known to walk into public squares and quietly set themselves on fire. I prefer to … Continue reading Excerpt: Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
The following has been excerpted from White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (September 2017) by Susan Falls. Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Preface My son has more than twenty-five siblings—milk siblings, that … Continue reading Excerpt: White Gold
The following has been excerpted from The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862-1943 (Nebraska, 2017) by Christopher W. Merritt. From Chapter 1: Entrance and Expansion, 1962-1880 Weaving together archaeological and historical sources regarding the Chinese experience in Montana completes a … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Coming Man from Canton
The following has been excerpted from Colonized through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915 (August 2017) by Marinella Lentis. From the Introduction Every child enjoys drawing with colored pencils, crayons, and markers and putting on paper his ideas about the world around him. … Continue reading Excerpt: Colonized through Art
The following is an excerpt from Bootleggers and Borders: The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland (Nebraska, 2014) by Stephen T. Moore. From Chapter 4: The Halcyon Days of Rum-Running Roy Haynes, the second U.S. commissioner of prohibition and an … Continue reading Excerpt: Bootleggers and Borders
The following has been excerpted from Upstairs at the Roosevelts’: Growing Up with Franklin and Eleanor (July 2017). Chapter 1: My Twelve Years in the White House The question most frequently asked of me is, “What was life like in the White House?” … Continue reading Excerpt: Upstairs at the Roosevelts’
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