Vin Scully, longtime broadcaster for the Dodgers, passed away on August, 2 2022 at the age of 94. Scully began his broadcasting career in 1949 after attending Fordham University, where he studied journalism and was a student broadcaster. He joined … Continue reading Remembering Vin Scully
Fred Luebke, founding director of the Center for Great Plain Studies at UNL and founding editor of Great Plains Quarterly, passed away on November 27, 2021 at the age of 94. After earning his degree in 1968, he became a … Continue reading Remembering Fred Luebke
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. The University of Nebraska Press lost two of its most renowned scholars this spring with the passing of both Raymond J. DeMallie (October 16, 1946– April 25, … Continue reading UNP Mourns the Loss of Scholars DeMallie and Parks
Ronald C. Naugle, professor and author, passed away on October 26, 2021 at the age of 79. He was the Huge-Kinne professor of history for 19 years at Wesleyan University, their department chair from 1980-2001, their graduate program chairman from … Continue reading Remembering Ronald Naugle
The following was published by the History of Anthropology Review on Oct. 18, 2021 by Regna Darnell, a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. I have known Ira Jacknis since he was a graduate … Continue reading Remembering Ira Jacknis
Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, passed away on August 20, 2021 at the age of 85. Oates was a Kendall Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Massachusettes-Amherst. In the “Civil War quartet”, one of his best-known works, … Continue reading Remembering Stephen B. Oates
Chris Petty is a space and aviation enthusiast and author of Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age as well as The High Frontier blog. His articles have appeared on Adam Savage’s Tested site and the Space Review. Chuck Yeager, … Continue reading From the Desk of Chris Petty: Remembering Chuck Yeager
In May of this year, former commander of the Chicago Police Department and criminal justice scholar Thomas A. Reppetto died at the age of eighty-eight. After earning a doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor, dean, and vice president … Continue reading Remembering Thomas Reppetto
Lester Tenney, World War II veteran and author of My Hitch in Hell, passed away the last week of February at the age of ninety-six. In 2000, Potomac Books published My Hitch in Hell: The Battan Death March, Tenney’s account of … Continue reading Lester Tenney, 1920-2017
Capt. Eugene A. Cernan, the last human to walk on the moon, passed away yesterday at the age of eighty-two. Cernan lived and worked in Texas and was the author of The Last Man on the Moon. Recently, he wrote the foreword for … Continue reading In Remembrance of Eugene Cernan
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