Unp Nebraska: 513 books
American Journalists in the Great War
Rewriting the Rules of Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. Its scale, brutality, and duration forced journalists to write their own rules for reporting...
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying...
This Strange Wilderness
The Life and Art of John James Audubon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and life...
The Coming Man from Canton
Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously...
Unpopular Sovereignty
Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West
2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society
2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association
Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed...
Freshwater Passages
The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known...
by Larry Cebula
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850.
For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites...
Yearning to Labor
Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, France underwent a particularly turbulent period during which urban riots in 2005 and labor protests in 2006 galvanized people across the country and brought the question of youth unemployment among its poorer, multiethnic outer cities into the national...
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...
The Continental League
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league’s...
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...
Writing Brave and Free
Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience...
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...
Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with...