University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended...
The Borderland of Fear
Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but—antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding—also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often perceived as destroying...
Sunflower Justice
A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents...
Blood Will Tell
Native Americans and Assimilation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity...
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly
The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers’ concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads...
When We Were Ghouls
A Memoir of Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Amy E. Wallen’s southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows...
by Julianne Newmark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents’ national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of “American” beliefs and...
The Storyworld Accord
Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the...
Dodgerland
Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977–78 Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 1977–78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers’ run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went on to noteworthy...
by Thomas P. Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804–6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition’s success...
Portrait of an Island
The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758–1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The once famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gorée became one of the intersections which linked African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then, as now, people of all nationalities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Britain was the industrial and political powerhouse of the nineteenth century—the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the center of the largest empire of the time. With its broad imperial reach—and even broader indirect influence—Britain had a major impact on nineteenth-century material...
A Game of Their Own
Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 2010 twenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women’s Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed.
A Game of Their Own chronicles the largely invisible history of women in baseball and offers an...