Bøger udgivet af University of Nebraska Press

Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.

This fourteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income.

Wildlife of Nebraska surveys the variety and biology of Nebraska's terrestrial vertebrates by describing the ecology and biology of the state's birds, its mammals, and its reptiles and amphibians.

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an Indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo-that was sacred to him and to his people.

This memoir recounts Bethany Maile's efforts, informed by a steady diet of "western" activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.

Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.

The Cap brings the economic history of professional basketball to life by going behind the scenes to tell the story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created the salary cap in 1983, the first in all of sports.

Ray A. March exposes a story of mass murder, a community's racism, and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe.

Modernity through Letter Writing examines the discursive practices between Native and non-Native writers during the removal era. In this process of written diplomacy, protest, and petitioning, Native writers developed strategies for negotiating the policies of Indian Removal and advocating for their own indigenous nations.

This new edition of the first comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway includes nearly twenty-five more years of history.

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. Linda Heidenreich coins the term nepantla(2) to mark figures who moved between cultures and genders.

Buzzie and the Bull is the story of two men, a season, and a country on the brink in 1965.

Richie Adubato-one of basketball's most colorful characters and storytellers-chronicles his life in the game, from New Jersey high schools to head coach in both the NBA and the WNBA.

Nebraska's Bucks and Bulls shares the stories and photographs of the greatest whitetail, mule deer, and elk shot in Nebraska hunting history, from the 1940s to the present.

Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.

Rez Metal showcases the sounds, images, and stories of Navajo heavy metal bands and Native heavy metalers while exploring the deep and life-affirming power of heavy metal music in Indian Country.

Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo's Native perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global settings.

Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa's visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.

This intriguing history challenges the standard D-Day narrative through an examination of the tensions between the Allied leaders and their eventual agreement on Operation Overlord a year before that fateful day on the Normandy beaches.

The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entree into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.

An anthology of editorials, articles, and essays written and published by Indigenous students at boarding schools around the turn of the twentieth century.

A poetic history of Southern California told from the perspective of both Western science and Native myths and legends.

Christa McAuliffe's name is entrenched in American history as the teacher who died when the Challenger exploded in January 1986. This biography in words and pictures explores and celebrates Christa's life and legacy and suggests that her goals of involving and educating children are being fulfilled.