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The story of one of history’s fastest racehorses, a humiliating defeat, the steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.

This collection shows that Wallace Stegner’s work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.

Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.

Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first National Championship and beyond.

Framing Nature explores the environmental perception of Grand Canyon National Park and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West.

The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the region.

Award-winning historian Mary F. Ehrlander and Hild M. Peters tell the compelling story of Episcopal missionaries who engaged in social reform and delivered critical health care to Alaska Native communities as economic development and white migration negatively impacted Native life.

From Back Alley to the Border examines the history of illegal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California’s anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century.

The Incorrigibles explores the relationship between Progressive social welfare institutions and eugenics, which, in the mid-1930s, justified the sterilization of fifty-one juvenile girls from the Girls’ Industrial School in Beloit, Kansas.

¡Vino! explores the history and identity of Spanish wine production from the nineteenth century to today.

Urban Homelands explores writing by Native Oklahomans that connects urban homelands in Oklahoma and beyond and reveals the need for a new methodology of urban Indian studies.

Oracle of Lost Causes tells the life story of John Newman Edwards, a Confederate soldier and political journalist perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him, who sought to weaponize the memory of Confederate defeat.

The story of the thrilling 1932 baseball season and Babe Ruth’s called shot.

Baseball’s Endangered Species is a comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from the postwar era to the present day.

Terra Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) sought healing and found belonging. After a difficult loss, Native women elders embraced and guided her over three decades, lifting her from grief and showing her how to age from youth into beauty.

In this biography Gary C. Anderson profiles Sitting Bull, a military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death.

The Greatest Ace is a love story of a dog, a farm, and a man who owned both, as told by Ace, a small Shepherd dog with big ideas. From the levelling dust of the 1930's, to the fettering farm bills of modern politics, follow the fight to save a Nebraskan farm, and, ultimately, to save a life.

Nannie T. Alderson's memoir recounts the life of a transplanted, southern woman who, after marrying in 1883, finds herself learning to run a ranch in eastern Montana near the mouth of Lame Deer Creek.

Elias Kelly’s My Side of the River combines memoir and stories of Kelly’s elders with public history to explore the impact of federal and state regulations on the traditional life and subsistence methods of Native Alaskans.

The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes that characterize their shared experiences.