Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist who writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections: the newly released Autumn Song: Essays on Absence (Nebraska, 2023) and All the Colors We … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrice Gopo: Words that Connect Us, Words that Help Us Feel Seen
John Mabry was the sports editor for the Lincoln Journal Star from 1997 to 2007. During that time he helped cover the Husker volleyball team at five NCAA Final Fours. He has written more than five hundred features for the Journal Star and its niche … Continue reading From the Desk of John Mabry: Nebraska Volleyball Day
Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor of early modern European history in the Department of History and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: … Continue reading Excerpt: Bad Subjects
The April Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education about fascist and antifascist movements in the United States. We seek to learn from past efforts to resist fascist threats and to build more democratic and mutually supportive … Continue reading Confronting the American Eugenics Movement: A Conversation with Julie Carr
It felt like driving across another planet. I was off-roading through a stark region of cinder cones and craters. Overlapping 4×4 tracks and occasional pine trees were the most familiar terrestrial features. Welcome to a warm June evening several years ago in the Cinder Hills OHV Area in Northern Arizona. Continue reading Becoming a Space Age Adventurer: The Story Behind a Book Combining Space Sites with Space Stories
With the fall semester starting soon, we have prepared a list of titles to help you brush up on something familiar or take a dive into a new fascinating subject. History Richard Nixon PAUL CARTER Richard Nixon is the story … Continue reading Back to School Reading List
R. Douglas Hurt is a professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Food and Agriculture during the Civil War; The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century; and The Great Plains during World … Continue reading Excerpt: Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
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
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