“We’d never have got through it if I hadn’t been so strong.” Ántonia Shimerda in My Ántonia by Willa Cather The National Women’s History Alliance, which spearheaded the movement for March being declared National Women’s History Month, has announced the women’s history … Continue reading Women’s History Month Sale 2023
Eileen Wirth is a professor emeritus of journalism at Creighton University and a senior writer for Legacy Preservation in Omaha. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism (Nebraska, 2013), Omaha’s Henry … Continue reading From the Desk of Eileen Wirth: The Women Who Built Omaha
UNP is proud to celebrate Women’s History Month with a sale and a reading list on Nebraska Women and their place in the state’s history. Save 50% off a selection of books during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM22 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires March 31, 2022 and is good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Beth Boosalis Davis’ Mayor Helen Boosalis As a 1950s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln’s switch to a “strong mayor” form of government, Helen Boosalis … Continue reading Nebraska Women: Women’s History Month Reading List
Diane Kiesel is the author of She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Potomac Books, 2015). She Can Bring Us Home is the winner of the 2015 Richard Slatten Award for excellence in Virginia biography … Continue reading From the Desk of Diane Kiesel: Another Alpha Kappa Alpha Who Made an Impact Before Vice President Harris
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2020 Newsletter, i.e. Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed … Continue reading Behind the Book with Scott D. Seligman
Introducing our third virtual book tour, Women’s West! The secret to telling any great tale about the U.S. West is to make it an inclusive story with lots of historical actors from different backgrounds, places, and cultures. Decades ago, Bison … Continue reading Virtually Bison Books: Women’s West
The following is the introduction from An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I (Potomac Books, 2020) by Chris Dubbs. Recently in the Wall Street Journal Melanie Kirkpatrick wrote, “This slice of World War I history offers … Continue reading Excerpt: An Unladylike Profession
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a couple upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in July. Anna Weir: Aaron Koller tackles one of the most complicated, … Continue reading Publicist Picks: The Crux of (Almost) Sacrifice, Women in the Trenches, and Other July Books
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya (1902–90) served in the Russian army until 1917, then became a soldier and a nurse for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). After the civil war, she worked as a typist for the Red Army … Continue reading Excerpt: In the Trenches
Judy Kem is a professor of French at Wake Forest University. She is editor or author of three books in French studies, including Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France (Nebraska, 2019). Fatal Lovesickness in Early Modern … Continue reading From the Desk of Judy Kem: Fatal Lovesickness in Early Modern France
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