Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Gregg Lambert offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?

Ten years after the original publication of Good Neighbors, Bad Times, an unexpected letter leads Mimi Schwartz to revisit the story of her father's German village during the Third Reich.

The biography of Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam and a key figure in America's Golden Age of Sports.

Here is the life story of Horace Stoneham, who inherited the New York Giants Major League Baseball franchise in 1936 and owned and operated the organization until 1976.

Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by three transformative factors-population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the American West.

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.

Heroic Hearts examines how young women in nineteenth-century France, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged individual authority over domesticity and marriage, sought to change the world.

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico.

Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.

Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for considering John James Audubon's quadruped essays as worthy of literary analysis and at once redefine the role of John Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays.

Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History circles around the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a changing theoretical openness and a supporting body of scholarship.

Thom Henninger provides a nostalgic look at the era's elite Minnesota Twins teams and the turbulent times in which they competed in four dramatic American League pennant races between 1965 and 1970.

The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society's library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.

The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society's library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.

An engaging history of the 1962 baseball season and a tumultuous American year.

This elegant and moving collection of poems documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer.

Trans grew out of Hilda Raz's experience with her son's journey to a transgender identity. The collection of poems moves between past and present, allowing Raz to reflect on her own childhood and on her experience with breast cancer to find ways to connect with her son, Aaron.

This collection of poems is an exploration of lives and selves transformed by choice and by chance.

With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.

Aaron Raz Link began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. This memoir documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change.

Through a geographical lens Alan P. Marcus provides a new synthesis for interpreting the Confederado story and for understanding the impact of the various stakeholders who encouraged, aided, promoted, financed, and facilitated this broader emigration from the U.S. South to Brazil.

Clubbie is a hilarious and illuminating memoir about a starry-eyed baseball fan who accidentally became part of the Minor League system that exploited his heroes.

Comeback Pitchers is the story of two pitchers, Jack Quinn and Howard Ehmke, whose intertwining careers began in the Deadball Era and continued into the 1920s and 1930s.

Two Sides of Glory is an in-depth, first-person account of intriguing players that made up this once-in-a-generation Boston team. It's also a look at how the extremes of tantalizing victory and heart-wrenching failure influenced their lives-both on the field and off.

Cobra is the autobiography of Dave Parker, one of baseball's greatest and most controversial players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the peak of Black participation in Major League Baseball.

Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of the men and women who claimed homesteads in California and began a perilous quest to attain the American Dream at virtually any cost.

A biography of Tony Lazzeri, a key member of the Yankees' legendary Murderers' Row lineup between 1926 and 1937 and the first major baseball star of Italian descent.