University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
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.
One...
Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and...
Flock Together
A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds.
How*,* he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we’ve failed to preserve in life?
And...
From the Mouths of Dogs
What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars...
Radio in Revolution
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employed wireless technology in the form of radiotelegraphy and radio broadcasting to alter the course of the revolution and influence how political...
Política
Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift...
Apollo Pilot
The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA’s...
Go, Flight!
The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building...
Bold They Rise
The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like...
The Wheeling Year
A Poet's Field Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.
Kooser,...
The Great Baseball Revolt
The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the...
Bring In the Right-Hander!
My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
One of only twenty-nine Major Leaguers to play in four different decades, Jerry Reuss pitched for eight teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates twice. So when Reuss tells his story, he covers about as much of baseball life as any player can.
Bring In the Right-Hander! puts us on the mound...
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...
The Great Father
The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail....