The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every...

The story of a mixed race (black and Native) child growing up on the reservation, how she finds a...

With Final Innings Dean Sullivan concludes his four-volume documentary history of baseball, whose...

An intimate series of portraits of and visits with musicians who are part of the musical genre kn...

Christine A. Baker is a writer for the Web site Full Court Press. She is also an assistant varsit...

Susanne George Bloomfield is Distinguished Martin Professor of English at the University of Nebra...

Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look ...

Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old p...

Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged...

Kevin Grange is an award-winning freelance writer who has written for Backpacker Magazine, Nation...

Lee Vincent (1935¿77) built and operated a TV station in Litchfield, Maine, before his job with W...

It’s been a year since the body of seventeen-year-old Kelsey Little was found in the river outsid...

Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plai...

'Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces,' writes Mari L'Esperance. And in the open...

'A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north G...

David Starkey is a professor of English at Santa Barbara City College and author of Poetry Writin...

Dan O¿Brien is the author of numerous novels and memoirs, including Buffalo for the Broken Heart ...

Charlie Metro's career runs the gamut of the specialties found in baseball-player, coach, manager...

'One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa ...

Of the three secretaries who assisted President Abraham Lincoln -- John G. Nicolay, John Hay, and...

Their conquest was measured not in miles but in degrees of longitude. They smashed the gates of e...

In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, 'The Plain Sense of Things' tells t...

Milton H. Jamail is the author of Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball. He has written on Latin Amer...

serve--'the fans, the sport, the best interests of the game, or the owners? As Larry Moffi explai...

Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into t...

Michael Robert Evans is an associate dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Journalism a...

Called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese and 'the roots' in Esquire's garden of ...

An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a g...

Donald R. Hickey is a professor of history at Wayne State College. Susan A. Wunder is an associat...

A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 19...

Beset by enemies on every side and torn by internal divisions, the crusader kingdoms were a hotbe...

Exiled Algerian writer Alek Baylee Toumi is an associate professor of French and Francophone stud...

The stories of poet Kooser's family had been handed down orally until, as his mother lay ill and ...

Steve Marantz is an Omaha Central graduate and the author of Sorcery at Caesars: Sugar Ray¿s Marv...

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan. He is t...

Jonathan R. Dull served as the senior associate editor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin series ...

William Kloefkorn (1932¿2011) was an emeritus professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan Universit...

Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to ...

Liz Stephens received her PhD in creative nonfiction. A winner of the Western Literature Associat...

Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collecte...

Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and wa...

David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition t...

In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that...

W. Scott Olsen is a professor of English at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is edito...

This latest novel by a noted Onondaga writer is a rich, wry and multifaceted picture of modern Ir...

Archaeologist and rock art researcher Lawrence L. Loendorf is president of Sacred Sites Research,...

Peabody's Battle Line, McCuller's Field, Stuart's Defense, the Peach Orchard, and Hell's Hollow--...

Miles J. Breuer (1889¿1945) was a prominent physician in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a pioneer writer ...