Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in Southeast Alaska from 1878 through the Cold War, particularly how making a living was pitted against the economic realities of the day.

Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson's basketball career from grade school through his years playing professionally in West Germany and communist Poland in 1987.

Burning the Breeze chronicles the lives of three generations of women who defied society’s expectations: Julia Bennett, the first woman to build a Montana guest ranch; and her grandmother and mother, who fled Missouri during the Civil War to prosper in the American West.

Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.

In Lamentations Carol Kammen imagines the 1842 crossing of the first group of families to go to Oregon through the perspectives of the dozen women who made the journey.

B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.

Margaret Pollak explores experiences, understandings, and care of diabetes in a Native urban community in Chicago made up of individuals representing more than one hundred tribes from across the United States and Canada.

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.

Paul Ardoin asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts.

John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

Leveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the developing region of Oregon via its exclusionary laws in the years 1841 to 1859.

This edited collection explores what trauma-seen through an analytical lens-can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.

Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.

Robert Niebuhr explores the importance of the turbulent populist politics of the period after 1899 and the significance of the Chaco War as the most influential revolution in modern Bolivian history.

French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades before.

Critically examines the move toward educational integration that took shape during the immediate postwar period. Growing linkages to the metropolitan school system ultimately had powerful impacts on the course of decolonisation and the making of postcolonial Africa.

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.

The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds.

Black Snake tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the activism of four women from Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Reservations.

In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before.

Beloved Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch explores our passion and love for dogs.

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.

Part memoir, part travelogue, Get Thee to a Bakery explores both humorous and harrowing aspects of growing older and making sense of social, technological, and environmental change.

Set in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows midwife Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager.

The Leave-Takers is a twenty-first-century American love story and a tale of internal migration to the Great Plains.