A List for Younger Readers
Reading is important for all ages. Here’s a sampling of books for the young reader in your life. Can You Dance Like John? Jeff Kurrus Photographs … Continue reading A List for Younger Readers
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Marking the Centenary of World War I in America
The following is by from Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi, author of Remembering World War I in America (March 2018). Lamay Licursi is an adjunct instructor of history at Siena College in New York. When I first began studying the United States in … Continue reading Marking the Centenary of World War I in America
America’s Offerings to the Gun Deity
Robertson Allen is an independent scholar and ethnographer who researches digital games, war and violence, and food cultures. His book America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War (Nebraska, 2017) is an ethnographic study based on his years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within … Continue reading America’s Offerings to the Gun Deity
From the Desk of Jeffrey Anderson: Wind River and Cultural Representations
Jeffrey D. Anderson (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. For the past thirty years he has conducted or collaborated fieldwork, archival studies, and applied research on the language, culture, and history of … Continue reading From the Desk of Jeffrey Anderson: Wind River and Cultural Representations
From the Desk of Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former U.S. poet laureate, is Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Currently, he is hand-selecting books for his eponymous Contemporary Poetry series, which features poets he believes deserves greater recognition for their … Continue reading From the Desk of Ted Kooser
SABR Announces 2018 Henry Chadwick Award
Last week, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) announced the 2018 recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game’s great researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists—for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s … Continue reading SABR Announces 2018 Henry Chadwick Award
Remembering Bill Kilpatrick
Golf writer and author Bill Kilpatrick died on Saturday, February 17 at the age of ninety-two according to the Charlotte County Florida Weekly. Kilpatrick wrote articles for magazines such as Parade, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Field & Stream, Esquire, Fly Fishing, and True. Before … Continue reading Remembering Bill Kilpatrick
Interview with Rosalyn LaPier
The Hedgehog & the Fox is a new podcast showcasing interviews with university press authors from around the world. Podcast host George Miller recently spoke with author Rosalyn LaPier about her book Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World … Continue reading Interview with Rosalyn LaPier
Excerpt: Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico
The following is an excerpt from Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico (February 2018) by Jun U. Sunseri. From Chapter 4: Hearthscape Tools Scraping a bit of beans from the edge of her wooden spoon, Eufemia had just … Continue reading Excerpt: Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico
From the Desk of James Johnson: Great Reads Begin with Great Research
The following is from James W. Johnson, author of The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA’S Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett (February 2018). Johnson is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Great … Continue reading From the Desk of James Johnson: Great Reads Begin with Great Research
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