Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, February 2023) by Elliott … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning
Nonfiction November is a month-long nonfiction reading initiative meant to encourage readers to enjoy as much nonfiction as possible during November, and to incorporate more nonfiction reading into your TBR pile throughout the year. Below we’ve curated a reading list … Continue reading Nonfiction November Reading List
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies around. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale
For more than sixty years, Bison Books has helped sustain the intrigue of the West by serving as the living literature of western lands and people. Within the imprint, we preserve the history of the peoples and cultures that have … Continue reading Bison Books Sale
Michael J. Devine is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously he was the director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and a professor of history and director of the American Heritage Center at the University … Continue reading Excerpt: The Korean War Remembered
R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading From the Desk of R. Eli Paul
Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 and Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935. … Continue reading Excerpt: Hoarding New Guinea
Maxwell Johnson is a humanities instructor at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. His newest book, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, was published last month. In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise … Continue reading Excerpt: A Connected Metropolis
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Hansson: The Symptom of Sweden’s Racial Crises
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on some of our recently published history books. With our summer reading sale, you can get our summer-themed books for 50% off! From now until the end of July, Lincoln City Libraries is … Continue reading Summer Reading List: History
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