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 ...

'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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

Bob Kuska is a career science writer and the author of Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Ga...

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

Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the Universit...

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

Robert Root, who helps locate the nonfiction of place in his introduction to Landscapes with Figu...

Maggie Pleskac is owner and chef at Maggie¿s Vegetarian Caf¿n Lincoln, Nebraska. She is on the bo...

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...