Unp Nebraska: 513 books
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early...
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...
The Hole Truth
Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Ever wonder whether Tiger Woods in his prime would have beaten Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, or Jack Nicklaus in their primes? And could any of them have beaten Babe Zaharias? Obviously, if Bobby Jones were returned to life and health and then given his old hickory-shafted mashie, persimmon-headed driver,...
Iron Mac
The Legend of Roughhouse Cyclist Reggie McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
At a time when cycling in the United States rivaled baseball as the nation’s most popular professional sport, along came Reggie McNamara, a farmer’s son from Australia. Within a month of his arrival in the United States in 1913, he had earned the moniker “Iron Man” for his high tolerance of...
Last Seasons in Havana
The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America’s pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball...
by Leroy Paige, David Lipman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted...
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...
Bridging Two Dynasties
The 1947 New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American...
Utah Politics and Government
American Democracy among a Unique Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
As unique as is Utah’s formative history of civil and religious conflict, its political institutions today broadly resemble those found in other American states. While its majority Mormon population translates into an enormous Republican advantage in local and national elections, Utahns have taken...
Defying Expectations
Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As an expansion Major League Soccer team, the Orlando City Soccer Club marked the return of professional soccer to Florida for the first time since 2001, selling out the sixty-thousand-seat Citrus Bowl for its home opener and going on to have the second‑highest home attendance for the 2015 and...
by Richard A. Levins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country’s premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty...
Romance with Voluptuousness
Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black women’s body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States.
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A Generation Removed
The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished...
Exceptional Mountains
A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological...