It has been more than 50 years since Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated following a victory party at the Ambassador Hotel in San Diego, CA by Sirhan Sirhan. It’s a crime detailed in The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and … Continue reading Re-evaluating the RFK assassination evidence
Books Finding a New Midwestern History Jon K. Lauck Review by the Russell Kirk Center: “…the chapters cover a wealth of topics. Many of the authors take a fairly conventional approach to the region—there are the customary chapters, for example, … Continue reading News and Reviews
Save 50% off these summer reading books! Enter 6SUMM in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires July 15, 2019 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Browse the books … Continue reading Summer Reading Sale
Serin D. Houston is an assistant professor of geography and international relations at Mount Holyoke College. Her new book Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance is now available. I grew up in rural, northern Vermont, a place where the rolling … Continue reading From the Desk of Serin D. Houston: Exploring a Storied Landscape
Norman Fine is a retired electronics engineer, founder of a high-tech company, and the editor and publisher of an annual engineering design guide series in the 1990s. He is the author of the forthcoming book Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought … Continue reading From the Desk of Norman Fine: The Most Influential Invention of World War II
BookExpo is the publishing industry’s leading trade event, where Booksellers, Librarians, specialty retailers and national chains, Publishers and Tastemakers gather to discover the latest titles, authors, distribution channels, technology, and trends. The University of Nebraska Press will be at BookExpo … Continue reading BookExpo Preview
Jane Singer is a Civil War author, researcher, and lecturer. She is the author of Lincoln’s Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage and The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on … Continue reading From the Desk of Jane Singer: Should history’s truths be told no matter the cost or conflict?
Carrie Teresa is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Niagara University in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the American Journalism Historians Association’s Margaret A. Blanchard Prize. Her new book Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow … Continue reading From the Desk of Carrie Teresa: A Love Letter to Entertainer-Activists of the Past, Present, and Future
The following books are now available in paperback as of this month! Homesteading the Great Plains: Toward a New History 2018 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by Choice “Homesteading the Plains is an important revisionist work—a … Continue reading New in Paperback
Katya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011 and has reported … Continue reading Asian Pacific Heritage Month: A Difficult History
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