Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Her book Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Nebraska, 2025) is the … Continue reading Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America
Robert W. Galler Jr. is a professor of history at St. Cloud State University. His new book Taking Chage, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School (Nebraska, 2025) was published in … Continue reading Excerpt: Taking Charge, Making Change
Emily Carney is a former nuclear technician for the U.S. Navy and an accomplished space journalist. She is the manager of public engagement and social media for the Space 3.0 Foundation, founder of the popular spaceflight group Space Hipsters, and cohost … Continue reading Excerpt: Star Bound
Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. His new book Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Nebraska, 2024) was published in October. Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Swallowing a World
Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. She is a columnist for High Country News and formerly Indian Country Today. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s, and more. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
Oriol Ambrogio Gali is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. His latest book Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 was published by Nebraska in December. Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of … Continue reading Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 (Potomac Books, 2020) and Murder in Manchuria (Potomac Books, 2023). His latest book The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story … Continue reading Excerpt: The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral
On December 29, 2024, James Earl Carter, Jr., thirty-ninth President of the United States passed away. President Biden has proclaimed today, January 9, 2025, a National Day of Mourning. To remember and honor the former president, we are sharing an … Continue reading Remembering Jimmy Carter: An excerpt from The Presidents and the Pastime
Sally Thompson is an anthropologist and cultural heritage consultant. She formerly served as founder and director of the Regional Learning Project and as Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act specialist for the University of Montana, Missoula, where, on occasion, she … Continue reading Excerpt: Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World
David Yee is an assistant professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His latest book Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 (Nebraska, 2024) was published in November as part of the Confluencias series. In … Continue reading Excerpt: Informal Metropolis
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