History Nebraska

Reducere. DescriptionUnforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prair...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a short treatment of a long history. Nebraska has been inundated by ancient seas, carved by glaciers, and settled by ancien...

Reducere. Even a moment is enough for wonder and curiosity. Each page of this book uses a photo or artifact to tell a true story about the past, drawing from...

Originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial, this one-volume histo...

The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately ...

Reducere. A unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Profes...

Reducere. This overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state's past. Divided into five geographic divisions...

Reducere. DescriptionHome to the beloved Miller & Paine cinnamon rolls, Lincoln boasts a restaurant history rich with delicious food and unique stories. Tony...

Reducere. For many, Nebraska is the flat prairie seen from the interstate. Yet with the Sandhills, bluffs and river valleys, the state has an abundance of ri...

Reducere. The University of Nebraska Press is utilizing Docutech technology to make some out-of-print books available again. All on-demand titles are produce...

Reducere. DescriptionLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but...

Reducere. Description2012 Nebraska Book Award: Cover/Design/IllustrationThe transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major con...

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

The advance of Union Pacific Railroad tracklayers across Nebraska was part of America's great adventure of the 19th century. It marked the beginnin...

Reducere. In "100 Missions North, " Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs, the famous "Thud, " in 1966...

Reducere. World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history...

Reducere. As a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee sto...

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by ...

Reducere. Spur Awards One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye ...

Reducere. The advance of Union Pacific Railroad tracklayers across Nebraska was part of America's great adventure of the 19th century. It marked the beginnin...

Reducere. La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada--immense d...

Reducere. It has been home to the Lakota and Pawnee, to Buffalo Bill and the "Great Commoner." From its earliest days, Nebraska has held a strategic place in...

This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand ac...

Reducere. For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the cr...

Reducere. Surviving Conquest is a history of the Yavapai Indians, who have lived for centuries in central Arizona. Although primarily concerned with survival...

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. Catherine Price char...

Reducere. For many, Nebraska is the flat prairie seen from the interstate. Yet with the Sandhills, bluffs and river valleys, the state has an abundance of ri...

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Reducere. 2018 Nebraska Book Award The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranc...

At a time when hostilities and violence in the Middle East and Persian Gulf continually threaten the world with war, anyone seeking to understand t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer D. KeeneWorld War I explores the daily lives of the men and women who served the United States in the Great War. R...

A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign...

Reducere. "Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."-South Atlantic Review ...

Reducere. Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-al...

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the organization of the first Arbor Day to the invention of Kool-Aid, It Happened in Nebraska features more than thirty-six history...

Reducere. Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

Reducere. Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our und...

Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Medi...

Reducere. After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, t...

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Description"Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophie was one of the grand products of the renaissance in historical learning that took place in early nin...

Reducere. In a debate in the Senate on July 9, 1866, contemplating the formation of a black infantry regiment, some senators observed that "if it was a privi...

Reducere. After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set ab...

Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvan...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. Chickasaw Society and Religion brings back into print one of the most important ethnographic sources on Chickasaw Indian society and culture ever p...

Reducere. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of...

DescriptionClasses and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a ...

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

Reducere. "James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical ...

Reducere. Sherman Sage (ca. 1844-1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Pla...

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Reducere. The Business of Leisure critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hos...

Reducere. A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and...

Reducere. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowe...

Reducere. Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought...

Reducere. On a blizzardy morning in 1892, fifty armed men surrounded the cabin on Powder River where two cattle rustlers had spent the night. The first rustl...

Reducere. From 1870 until 1886 Captain John O. Bourke served on the staff of General George Crook, who Sherman described as the greatest Indian fighter the a...

The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the p...

Reducere. Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality--that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to hi...

Reducere. This rich and authoritative chronicle of the Yellowstone Basin covers a span of more than a century and half, from the 1740s, when the Verendryé br...

Reducere. The four life histories collected here--personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with th...

Reducere. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only lim...

Reducere. DescriptionMollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. ...

Reducere. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly...

Reducere. DescriptionAuthor and former Yell Squad member Debra Kleve White provides a firsthand account of game day in Lincoln. The Spirit of Nebraska offers...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing ...