Behind the Book: A Nebraska UP Podcast

Behind the Book: A Nebraska UP Podcast

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Parul Kapur, "Inside the Mirror" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

March 5, 2024

Inside the Mirror

Parul Kapur
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb

Parul Kapur's novel Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) centers on twin sisters growing up in 1950s Bombay, who aspire to become ar…

Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

February 25, 2024

Of Love and War

Angela Wanhalla
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the …

Alex Squadron, "Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

February 5, 2024

Life in the G

Alex Squadron
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Welcome to the G League--the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless P…

Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

December 28, 2023

Murder in Manchuria

Scott D. Seligman
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

On an August night in 1933 Harbin in then-Japanese controlled Manchuria–Semyon Kaspe, French citizen, famed concert musician, and Russian Jew, is abdu…

George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

December 24, 2023

Mediating Violence from Africa

George MacLeod

George MacLeod's book Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War (U Nebraska Press, 2023) explores…

Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

December 10, 2023

Urban Homelands

Lindsey Claire Smith
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. I…

Steven P. Gietschier, "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

September 23, 2023

Baseball

Steven P. Gietschier
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twen…

Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

September 6, 2023

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Erik Sherman
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in the remote Mexi…

Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom, "The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

July 30, 2023

The Imperial Gridiron

Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom
Hosted by Bennett Koerber

The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) examines the …

John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

July 24, 2023

The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000

John M. Findlay
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
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At the end of the 1930s, the West was in peril. A cultural and economic backwater, the Great Depression had all-but wiped out the extractive industrie…

Julie Carr, "Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

July 14, 2023

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts

Julie Carr
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
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In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (U Nebraska Press, 2023), University of Colorado poet and English…

Lee Lowenfish, "Baseball's Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

June 11, 2023

Baseball's Endangered Species

Lee Lowenfish
Hosted by Paul Knepper
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Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very speci…

Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

June 5, 2023

The Melancholy Void

Felipe Valencia
Hosted by Julia Gossard
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On today’s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Depar…

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

May 21, 2023

From Back Alley to the Border

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of…

Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

May 12, 2023

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Bedross Der Matossian
Hosted by Roberto Mazza

Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial…

Deborah Bauer, "Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

May 1, 2023

Marianne Is Watching

Deborah Bauer

In the wake of its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the French Third Republic sought to rebuild its strength to avenge its defeat and secu…

Elliott West, "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

April 23, 2023

Continental Reckoning

Elliott West
Hosted by Andrew Graybill

In Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (U Nebraska Press, 2023) renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narra…

Giusi Russo, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

March 18, 2023

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975

Giusi Russo

In Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Giusi Russo focuses on the first decades o…

Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

February 15, 2023

Hydronarratives

Matthew S. Henry

The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Mi…

Adam Elder, "New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

February 5, 2023

New Kids in the World Cup

Adam Elder
Hosted by Robert Sherwood

In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mullete…