In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for...

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Despite the rustic charm of their settings, the bitingly humorous short stories of Dorothy Thomas...

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

Paul S. Powers (1905¿71) was a writer of pulp westerns for twenty years and the author of Doc Dil...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Toni Jensen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. Her short ...

'Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains' is an easy-to-use reference on the wildlife that Meriwether...

Ronald M. James is the long-term state historic preservation officer for Nevada and chairman of t...

Widely rumored to exist, then circulated in a corrupt form, Jules Verne's final and arguably most...

During the winter of 1913 and the spring of 1914 the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox to...

Created by scholars who have walked the battlegrounds, consulted with local experts and park guid...

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought...

An essential guide to all twenty National Grasslands in the United States, plus Grasslands Nation...

The journey of one young man on a path of youthful rebellion that leads first to a short jail sen...

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

Sure, there's no place like home-but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time...

A Nebraska native, Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in New York and, with Ted Kooser, on the...

Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three...

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

Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, which...

¿ouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Win...

Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles wer...

Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-'1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first...