Derek Moscato is an associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University. The following is an excerpt from his book Dirt Persuasion (Nebraska, 2022). Chapter One: A Pipeline Runs Through It Nearly three hours west of Omaha, in the heart of … Continue reading Excerpt: Dirt Persuasion
Alan Knight is emeritus professor of the history of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is a renowned scholar of Mexican history, and his books have won awards such as the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Prize and the Bolton … Continue reading Excerpt: Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints
Carlos S. Dimas is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas. His newest book, Poisoned Eden (Nebraska, 2022), was published this month. Introduction Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health In 1893 Jacobo García, mayor of … Continue reading Excerpt: Poisoned Eden
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
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