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Steinberg, Steve & Lyle Spatz. The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. 344. Notes and Index. $34.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Brett… Continue reading Builders of the Yankee Dynasty: Review of The Colonel and Hug
October Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books our noses have been buried in. Between You and Me: Confessions of a … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Francis Gary Powers, Jr. is the son of Francis Gary Powers who served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot … Continue reading The Bridge of Spies: The exchange of Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel
Julija Šukys is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Department of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. She is the author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life … Continue reading From the desk of Julija Šukys
Jay Gallentine is a historian and filmmaker who has spent more than ten years researching the history of unmanned spaceflight. He is the author of Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (January 2016) and Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations … Continue reading From the desk of Jay Gallentine: The Saga of Mars
We love to hear from our readers. Check out what people are saying on Amazon about some of our most recent titles: Canoeing the Great Plains by Patrick Dobson “I read Patrick Dobson’s first book, Seldom Seen a few years … Continue reading A Word From Our Readers
Books Cora Du Bois by Susan C. Seymour Praise from the Los Angeles Book Review: “Seymour’s book reads like a detective novel in parts, a history in others, as she follows the adventurous life of a ‘distant observer of mankind.’ . . . Susan Seymour makes clear the irony of a woman with principle—a patriotic American who attempted to see beyond the present — being first rewarded by her country and then defamed by its intelligence agencies for doing so. There are important contemporary lessons here. If we don’t know where we have come from, we can’t see where our country … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
With this reading list, the long baseball-playing days of summer don’t have to come to an end. A Game of Their Own by Jennifer Ring From baseball’s history of shunning girls from the game to the undeniable success of the … Continue reading Reading List: At the Old Ball Game
An excerpt from The Game before the Money: Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL (September 2014) by Jackson Michael. Join the conversation on Twitter using #GameBeforeMoney during the first week of NFL football on why you coach, play, or watch. Pro Football Hall of Fame member … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Game Before the Money
Amy Helene Forss has a PhD in African American history and teaches at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. Her work has appeared in journals such as Nebraska History and Great Plains Quarterly. She is the author of Black Print … Continue reading From the desk of Amy Helene Forss: The Scoop on Mildred D. Brown
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