Unp Nebraska Paperback: 40 books
Black Print with a White Carnation
Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha’s Near North Side—a historically black part...
Traveling the Power Line
From the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In our power-hungry world, all the talk about energy—what’s safe and what’s risky, what’s clean and what’s dirty, what’s cheap and what’s easy—tends to generate more heat than light. What, Julianne Couch wanted to know, is the real story on power production in this country? Approaching...
Busy in the Cause
Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of...
Darkened Rooms of Summer
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American...
Celluloid Indians
Native Americans and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the...
Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History
Heroes, Underdogs, Courses, and Championships
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories—not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces offer an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century....
by David Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger...
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years...
Reading Unruly
Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Reading Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical double bind, hesitating then...
Manassas
A Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and...
A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War
Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in May 1864. These letters to Caroline, his wife, reveal the traumatizing experience of a soldier and the constant concern of a husband and father.
by Barrie Jean Borich
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself.
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The Plan de San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African...
The Promise of Hope
New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited...