Books published by University of Nebraska Press

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.

With nine days as the stage, Summer Baseball Nation tells the stories of America's summer collegiate baseball leagues, from coastal New England to central Alaska.

Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest.

Issei Baseball focuses on a small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. Through these men, Robert K. Fitts examines the history of early Japanese American baseball and the Japanese immigrant experience.

We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012.

Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer bring together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.

Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to Teresina Bent Scheurich's death in 1920, exploring how one family negotiated shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests.

Presents the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man.

Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatan and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.

Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill's business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck.

Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.

The story of the thrilling 1932 baseball season and Babe Ruth's called shot.

In celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary, the University of Nebraska Press has collected an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by Nebraska undergraduate college students and high school seniors in the theme of ""Voices of Nebraska: Diverse Landscapes, Diverse Peoples"".

On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston¿s first epic walk across America transcended sport. He was ¿everyman¿ in a stirring battle against the elements and exhaustion, tramping along at the pace of someone decades younger. Having long been Americäs greatest pedestrian, he was attempting the most ambitious and physically taxing walk of his career. He walked most of the way alone when the car that he hired to follow him kept breaking down, and he often had to rest without adequate food or shelter. That Weston made it is one of the truly great but forgotten sports feats of all time. Thanks in large part to his daily dispatches of his travails¿from blizzards to intense heat, rutted roads, bad shoes, and illness¿Weston¿s trek became a wonder of the ages and attracted international headlines to the sport called ¿pedestrianism.¿ Aided by long-buried archival information, colorful biographical details, and Weston¿s diary entries, Walk of Ages is more than a book about a man going for a walk. It is an epic tale of beating the odds and a penetrating look at a vanished time in America.

The average pitcher has about a.000645 chance of throwing a no-hitter. In the spring of 1938, Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher Johnny Vander Meer pitched two, back to back. The feat has never been duplicated. Double No-Hit offers an inning-by-inning account of that historic second consecutive no-hitter, accomplished during the first night game in New York City.

Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Ted Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

By examining how some of the best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. Writing at the Limit explores what it really means to be writing at print's media limit.

Standing Bear died in 1908, but his legacy and influence continue even up to the present.

Sports Journalism tells the full story of American sports journalism and the notable changes in technology that have dramatically changed how Americans consumed it.

Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder and personal journey toward the acceptance and management of this lifelong illness.

Heart of Lions recounts the development of bicycle racing in the United States, explains why its popularity faded, and profiles major American cyclists from the past through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Rising from the Ashes explores continuing Native American survival, contemporary life, and sovereignty, with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney.

A study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana has successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes since 1699.

Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.

Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important new trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers' role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.