Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Scars of War examines how the exclusion of mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent in the United States shaped the efforts of policymakers to recognize the Amerasians of Vietnam as American children and initiate legislation that designated them unfit for American citizenship.

Examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Hoffman's Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America.

In these intimate and unapologetic poems, Susan Nguyen contends with history, memory, and grief while shedding light on the intersections of girlhood and the Vietnamese diaspora.

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape.

This edited collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography.

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. This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle.

The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Low's remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.

Stories from Saddle Mountain follows personal memories and family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century.

The stories in this collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home.

Randon Billings Noble has collected a range of lyric essays in a variety of forms that showcase the essay's openness to experimentation, reliance on authentic voice, and potential to explore complex subject matter.