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Women's History
May 21, 2023
From Back Alley to the Border
Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
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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 …
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Genocide Studies
May 12, 2023
Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
Bedross Der Matossian
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
American West
December 17, 2022
Cattle Beet Capital
Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado
Michael Weeks
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Troy Hallsell
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community …
American West
November 22, 2022
Country of the Cursed and the Driven
Slavery and the Texas Borderlands
Paul Barba
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Stephen Hausmann
Most of what people think they know about Texas history is wrong, argues Bucknell University history professor Paul Barba in Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery in the Texas …
Psychoanalysis
November 17, 2022
Hatred of Sex
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean
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Matthew Pieknik
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …
Popular Culture
November 14, 2022
Aquaman and the War Against Oceans
Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene
Ryan Poll
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Rebekah Buchanan
In Aquaman and the War against Oceans (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Ryan Poll explores ways the New 52 reimagining of Aquaman--a massive overhaul and rebranding of all DC Comics--transformed the …
Anthropology
September 27, 2022
Franz Boas
The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
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Alex Golub
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with creating the modern field …
Gender Studies
September 13, 2022
Transmovimientos
Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces
Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez, and Magda García
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Isabel Machado
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of …
American West
August 24, 2022
From Back Alley to the Border
Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
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Stephen Hausmann
Before 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion in California was illegal for both doctors performing and women seeking the procedure. In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in …
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