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Abelard's Love (European Women Writers)
Luise Rinser

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Abelard’s Love is an inspired retelling of the story of Abelard and Heloise—the French medieval theologian and his brilliant student—whose love affair led to a scandal that has echoed through the centuries. In the affair’s aftermath, Abelard became a monk and Heloise a nun. Forgotten to history was their unwanted son. Luise Rinser sets at center stage that son and his unique perspective on his legendary parents. The ...

The 1870 Ghost Dance
Cora Du Bois

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this “great wave,” as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and communal lives can be understood only in light of the dance and the complex religious ...

Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For

University of Nebraska Press, 2003

The many sides of Abraham Lincoln—war leader, humorist, commander in chief, politician, and emancipator—are vividly depicted in this concise and fresh look at his presidential years. Pivotal events, decisions, and issues in Lincoln’s private and public life are scrutinized and explained clearly by noted historian James A. Rawley. During an innovative yet bloody era marked by mass communication, unheard-of national recognition ...

1,000 Days in Siberia : the odyssey of a Japanese-American POW
Iwao Peter Sano

University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Born in Brawley, California, Sano went to Japan in 1939 to become the adopted son (yoshi) of his childless aunt and uncle. In March 1945, he was drafted into the Japanese army and sent to join the Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Five months later, when Japanese forces had surrendered to the Soviet army, Sano became a prisoner of war. For nearly three years he labored in a Soviet munitions factory, on a collective farm, and in a Siberian coal mine.

The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism (Critical Studies in the ...

University of Nebraska Press, 2008

One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair’s ethnic ...

Absaraka : Home of the Crows

1 review
Margaret Irvin Carrington

University of Nebraska Press, 1983

A wonderful portrayal of frontier life in the 1860s.
A wonderful book on the American frontier of the 1860s. Margaret Carrington accompanies her husband, US Army COL Henry Carrington, to Indian territory on the Powder River in Montana to set up forts along the newly opened Bozeman Trail. The book portrays the undaunted spirit of the pioneers and the struggle with the Indians. An excellent read.

Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations the University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska Press, 1952

Presented to the graduate college in partial fullfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy

The Academic Chairperson's Handbook
John W. Creswell, Daniel "Dan" W. Wheeler, ...

University of Nebraska Press, 1990

Between 1990 and 2004, universities and colleges will compete fiercely for 335,000 new faculty members. That is just one challenge looming for chairpersons, whose domain has been transformed by changing departmental missions. Until now, the academic chair has received little guidance not only in dealing with new trends but in the daily running of a department. The Academic Chairperson's Handbook is an important resource book for leaders who ...

Adam's Diary (Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation)

1 review
Knut Faldbakken

University of Nebraska Press, 1987

Brilliant Stream Of Consciousness Character Study
Adam's Diary is a brilliant work of art & a very entertaining book. In it, the "modern Adam" is a composite of thief, dog & prisoner. It's interesting that the composites are not merely psycological aspects of 3 different men, but they're actually what the men involved have become in reality. The book is broken up into 3 "diaries" for each man, & they all revolve around their relationship to one ...

Academic Leadership in Community Colleges
Alan T. Seagren, Daniel "Dan" W. Wheeler, ...

University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Many challenges face community; technical, and junior colleges as they prepare for the 21st century. The more than 1,400 community colleges in the United States and Canada are led by approximately 14,000 academic deans and department heads, each of whom must balance the demands of the students, faculties, sponsors, community, and the college itself. As college enrollments increase, so do responsibilities, problems, and stress. Fur-ther stress ...

Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War

2 reviews
Howard Jones

University of Nebraska Press, 1999

A Different Civil War Battle
What is the relation between the American Civil War and the Monroe Doctrine? Where's the connection between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857? Did you know that one of the crucial battles of the Civil War was fought nowhere near the bloody fields of Virginia or Tennessee? "Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom" traces the events surrounding Lincoln's fight to ...

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