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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Gene A. Budig has served as president of Illinois State University and West Virginia University a...

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'--

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...

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...

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

Evelyn I. Funda is an associate professor of American literature at Utah State University. She ha...

Theodore Winthrop visited the Oregon and Washington territories in 1853 and wrote up eleven days ...

Brian G. Shellum is a senior intelligence analyst with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defe...

In November 1934, the Princeton football team-unbeaten in its last fifteen games-faced the 3-3 Ya...

'Four of these essays are based on talks given in different places and on different subjects. The...

Born in 1930 in 'Diddlin' Dora's' establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Ma...

Willis Goth Regier is the director of the University of Illinois Press. He is the author of In Pr...

Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences a...

Lisa Catherine Harper teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. She lives wi...

Jeffrey Lane is the founder and director of Schoolhouse Tutors, a mentoring program for middle an...

As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of sci...