Excerpt: Alou
The following is an excerpt from Alou: My Baseball Journey (April 2018) by Felipe Alou with Peter Kerasotis. This foreword was written by Pedro Martínez, Hall of Fame pitcher … Continue reading Excerpt: Alou
Tag: Nebraska
Vision Maker Film Festival
The Vision Maker Film Festival begins today in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. “We Are All Related” is the theme of the seventh biennial festival. It is a conceptual translation from the Lakota language—Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ—a commonly … Continue reading Vision Maker Film Festival
Great Plains Symposium
The Great Plains Symposium begins tomorrow in Kearney, Nebraska. The Center for Great Plains Studies hosts this conference featuring sessions for business leaders, ranchers, and community partners as well as wider discussions about how to preserve the stunning bounty of Great … Continue reading Great Plains Symposium
From the Desk of Mary K. Stillwell: 2018 One Book One Nebraska
A Nebraska native, Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in New York and, with Ted Kooser, on the plains and earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She served as coeditor of Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of … Continue reading From the Desk of Mary K. Stillwell: 2018 One Book One Nebraska
Excerpt: American Colossus
The following is an excerpt from American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis (March 2018) by Allen M. Hornblum. From Chapter 1: “A Game of Society” There is no sensation in the sporting world so thoroughly enjoyable … Continue reading Excerpt: American Colossus
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
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
