University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Before the West Was West
Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.
Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of...
No Place I Would Rather Be
Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers*.* He brings a fan’s love, a fiction writer’s eye, and an essayist’s sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line quite like Angell’s: born in 1920, he was an...
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When...
Education beyond the Mesas
Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona “turned the power” by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest...
How Was It Possible?
A Holocaust Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students...
by Tim Grove
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider’s tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history. Grove’s stories...
Macho Row
The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable...
Travels with Frances Densmore
Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Over the first half of the twentieth century, scientist and scholar Frances Densmore (1867–1957) visited thirty-five Native American tribes, recorded more than twenty-five hundred songs, amassed hundreds of artifacts and Native-crafted objects, and transcribed information about Native cultures....
Borderland Films
American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly changing concepts of identity and geopolitical issues influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Such shifts became especially evident...
Frontiersmen in Blue
The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly...
This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized...
The Black Prince of Baseball
Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
As America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base paths. Against this backdrop, Hal Chase...
Hawaiian by Birth
Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association
Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands...
Olympic Collision
The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
It remains one of the most memorable moments in modern Olympic history. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women’s 3,000-meter race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion around the world witnessed the mishap and listened...