University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Making My Pitch
A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men’s collegiate game....
Alou
My Baseball Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man to go from his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series. Today, the Dominican Republic produces more Major League players than any country...
The Baron and the Bear
Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears...
Cora Du Bois
Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.
Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American...
At the First Table
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food.
At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food...
Le Football
A History of American Football in France
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
There are two kinds of football in France.
American football was first played in France in 1909 during the cruise of the Great White Fleet. Then, during World War I, the American military shipped footballs, helmets, and shoulder pads alongside rifles and ammunition to the western front. A 1938...
Baseball's Power Shift
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From Major League Baseball’s inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players’ desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other...
World-Making Stories
Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
World-Making Stories is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California’s rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
New Life for Archaeological Collections explores solutions to what archaeologists are calling the “curation crisis,” that is, too much stuff with too little research, analysis, and public interpretation. This volume demonstrates how archaeologists are taking both large and small steps toward not...
Unlikely Heroes
The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population...
The Black Bruins
The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four‑star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball...
City Indian
Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political,...
America's U-Boats
Terror Trophies of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons...