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Behind the Book: A Nebraska UP Podcast
February 3, 2026
In the Shadow of El Tajín
Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination…
January 30, 2026
Return of the King
Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta (U Nebraska Press, 2025) tells the story of Muhammad Ali’s return to the ring …
January 18, 2026
The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000
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…
December 24, 2025
The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906
Today’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century, disputes were largely between Protestants and lat…
December 16, 2025
Global Approaches to the Holocaust
The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European hist…
December 13, 2025
Making Space
“A lot of things become possible when [the nation state] is not the only framework,” Melissa Byrnes reminds us in this deeply intimate local history o…
November 30, 2025
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North a…
October 8, 2025
The Chief Rabbi's Funeral
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent…
September 7, 2025
Hatred of Sex
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s i…
August 8, 2025
Picturing Indians
Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous l…
August 4, 2025
Last Seasons in Havana
Today we are joined by César Brioso, author of the book Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba (Un…
May 18, 2025
Yochanan's Gamble
Some two thousand years ago, as the story goes, a rabbi named Yochanan makes the epitome of pragmatic gambles—wagering the entire fate of the Jewish p…
January 24, 2025
Nazis at the Watercooler
After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were…
January 9, 2025
Spaces of Treblinka
In our conversation about Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Dr. Jacob Flaws expands the spatial real…
December 9, 2024
Spaces of Treblinka
Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (U Nebraska Press, 2024) utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and …
November 10, 2024
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of …
October 26, 2024
In Search of the Romanovs
In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) is a thrilling, true-lif…
October 21, 2024
Swallowing a World
Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (U Nebraska Press, 2024) offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typ…
October 9, 2024
Framing Nature
Perhaps no American landscape is as iconic as the rainbow rocks of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Yet, as the geographer Yolonda Youngs argues, the Grand Can…
September 27, 2024
Between the Wires
Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) tells for the first time…