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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

As the popularity of women's basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that tod...

Steve Edwards lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and young son.

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudgin...

After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, Georg...

James R. Dow is a professor emeritus of foreign languages and literatures at Iowa State Universit...

John Christgau (1934–2018)¿is the author of numerous books, including Origins of the Jump Shot: E...

In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they...

Ken Zontek, PhD, teaches history at Yakima Valley Community College and serves as an adjunct prof...

More than two hundred years later, the 'voyage of discovery'--with its outsized characters, geogr...

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

'Profiles of one-of-a-kind athletes from decades past'--

Terese Svoboda is the author of five volumes of poetry and four novels, including Tin God (Nebras...

The story of the 1940 college football season when unheralded Stanford went undefeated, and Coach...

Not so long ago every town in the United States that had an ounce of pride had a baseball team. T...

From a pool of barely nine thousand men of military age, Nebraska-still a territory at the time-s...

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

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

John Lardner (1913¿60), the son of legendary humorist Ring Lardner, was a columnist for Newsweek;...

A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, b...