Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. A six-year veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, Windolph fought in Benteen's troop on that fatal Sunday, and here he recalls the battle that wiped out Custer's command. This work is useful for students of American Western or military history.

Offers compelling glimpses of modern Native American life and the different ways that Native Americans and whites interact, fight, and resolve their conflicts.

On the brink of turning fifty, Elena suddenly falls into a deep depression brought on by her husband's odyssey to New York to celebrate the triumph of his cinematic career, a trip he takes not with Elena but with an unknown lover half her age. At the same time, Elena must come to grips with the transition of her grown-up sons to their own lives.

Explores the public role of the intellectual in times of national crisis. This book compares American responses to the Vietnam War and French responses to the Algerian War, finding many similarities in the way intellectuals voiced their outrage at the policies of their governments.