History Nebraska

Reducere. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-...

Reducere. In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

Reducere. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. B...

Reducere. In 1859, Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. W...

In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories--not just those featuring big winners a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than ...

Hans Delbruck's four-volume History of the Art of War is recognized throughout the world as the definitive work on the subject. Appearing in an Eng...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

Reducere. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.About author(s): Tom Griffith attended the University of London...

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River re...

Reducere. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This e...

Reducere. Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generation...

Reducere. To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest ...

Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against wh...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Reducere. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Considers developments including the use of gunpowder, the invention of firearms and iron balls. After reviewing the establishment of a European in...

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

Reducere. Mark M. Peyton is a naturalist with multiple advanced degrees; however, he would describe himself as more of a storyteller and teacher. He is an es...

Reducere. Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States' treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, th...