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Behind the Book: A Nebraska UP Podcast
Sports September 23, 2023

Baseball

The Turbulent Midcentury Years

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 twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the …

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Sports September 6, 2023

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers

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 Mexican town of Etchohuaquila, the left-hander …
Sports July 30, 2023

The Imperial Gridiron

Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

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 competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School …
American West 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 industries which had fueled the region's …
American West July 14, 2023

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts

Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

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 professor Julie Carr uses family legend and lore to tell …
Sports June 11, 2023

Baseball's Endangered Species

Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It

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 special person to be …
Iberian Studies June 5, 2023

The Melancholy Void

Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora

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 Department at Utah State University to discuss …
Women's History May 21, 2023

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers …
Genocide Studies 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. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses …
French Studies May 1, 2023

Marianne Is Watching

Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State

Deborah Bauer

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
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 secure itself as a major …
American West April 23, 2023

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

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 narrative of the American West and its vital …
Women's History March 18, 2023

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

Giusi Russo

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
In Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Giusi Russo focuses on the first decades of the United Nations Commission on the …
Geography February 15, 2023

Hydronarratives

Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

Matthew S. Henry

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and …
Sports February 5, 2023

New Kids in the World Cup

The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever

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 mulleted, they were America’s …
General History February 4, 2023

Empire and Catastrophe

Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954

Spencer D. Segalla

Hosted by Michael Vann
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 (U Nebraska Press, 2021) explores natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization …
Latin American Studies January 31, 2023

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban …
American West January 22, 2023

Taking the Field

Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Amy Kohout

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The US military didn't just conquer its way across the US West and the Pacific - it also collected and categorized across these spaces too. In Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature …
African Studies January 17, 2023

Contesting French West Africa

Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950

Harry Gamble

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researched study reveals, the expanding school …
American West January 3, 2023

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the …
American West December 21, 2022

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

Brenden W. Rensink

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century …