Unp Nebraska: 513 books
Perishing Heathens
Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory....
George Sword's Warrior Narratives
Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels...
Westerns
A Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge...
The Newspaper Warrior
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been...
Independent Mexico
The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’état, these...
How to Cook a Tapir
A Memoir of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping...
Indians in the United States and Canada
A Comparative History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred...
Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...
Elder Northfield's Home
or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield’s Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly...
Crack of the Bat
A History of Baseball on the Radio
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The...
When Baseball Went White
Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did...