Books published by University of Nebraska Press

David H. Wilson Jr. recounts an epic story of the Northern Paiutes' resistance and adaptation as they faced settler colonization and governmental misappropriation of their land in Oregon Country from the early 1850s to the 1930s.

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the history of Chinese immigrants in Montana by recovering their stories in their own words.

Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival is the first book to explore the trauma of the boarding school experience at Steward Indian School and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances.

This collection of essays brings together historians and policy scholars whose chapters offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.

The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience: the poet's love for his wife, his love of nature, his love for the family he grew up in, and his love of stories.

Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate of the Yamasees after the Yamasee War.

Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole.

The civil rights-era story of young boys whose dreams of playing in the Little League World Series were dashed, not by a loss to a more formidable team, but because of the color of their skin.

This biography of sports announcer Red Barber (1908-92) puts his life and broadcasting career in the context of twentieth-century American life and explores his own personal journey.

Baseball Rebels tells stories of mavericks, reformers, and radicals who shook up the baseball establishment and helped change America. These players, managers, sportswriters, activists, and even a few owners were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, including battles against racism, sexism, and homophobia.

The first detailed account of the history of Fort Phil Kearny, including the dramatic Fetterman Fight of December 21, 1866, in which the U.S. Army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later.

In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s.

Amazonian Cosmopolitans explores how two Kawaiwete Indigenous leaders, Sabino and Prepori, lived in a much more complicated and globally connected Amazon than most people realize.

Jose F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.

This edited collection considers Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present.

David J. Costa presents a collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, from speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea.

Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.

This a comprehensive collection of the new and collected works of South Africa's second poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.

A Hemisphere of Women focuses on the first Pan American women's organization dealing specifically with women's civil and political rights in a transnational arena in the early twentieth century.

Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucuman, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.

Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America's "frontier of leisure" by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation's Jim Crow era.

Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America's imperial ambitions.

This ethnography explores ways in which Amazonian Kichwa narrative, ritual, and concepts of place link extended kin groups into a regional society within Amazonian Ecuador.

Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region-the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders.