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This book is a study of the career and ministry of Ruth Duvall Crawford (1916-1986), the wife of prominent evangelist Percy Crawford (1902-1960). As pianist for Percy's evangelistic team and director of music for his various evangelistic enterprises, Ruth put together an ensemble of 40-50 musicians, and produced hundreds of high-quality music programs, geared to Percy's nationwide radio and television audiences. These programs set a new standa...

Emerging infectious disease (EID) represents an existential threat to humanity. EIDs are increasing in frequency and impact because of climate change and other human activities. We are losing the battle against EIDs because of improper assessment of the risk of EID. This stems from adherence to a failed paradigm of pathogen-host associations that suggests EIDs ought to be both unpredictable and rare. That, in turn, leads to policies suggesting...

This little book tells many important tribal stories for today and for future generations. These historic vignettes of the Omaha Nation and its leaders are shared so personally by author Fannie Reed Giffen and her collaborators, Susette and Susan La Flesche. It has been a treasure of mine for 25 years and I hope it becomes one of yours. The re-publication of the original comes on the 125-year anniversary of the 1898 Omaha Trans-Mississippi Ex...

For 40 years Wayne Mollhoff conducted a personal bird census every January. He explains: "After having run several Breeding Bird Survey routes, and participated in several Christmas Bird Counts, I became curious to see what might be found on a winter count under the more tightly controlled parameters of a census, as contrasted with Christmas counts done with variable numbers of observers." The count was set up similarly to the USGS Breeding B...

Classic biography of leading Massachusetts Bay Colony minister & President of Harvard College Increase Mather (1639-1723). "A book which will be indispensable to students of early American history."-Times Literary Supplement "It is a book to welcome and appreciate."-American Historical Review "The available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill."-The Sewanee Review "[Murdock's book] opened the slui...

Published 1927 by Harper & Brothers, New York & London. Poets included are: Paul Laurence Dunbar ¿ Joseph S. Cotter, Sr ¿ James Weldon Johnson ¿ William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ¿ William Stanley Braithwaite ¿ James Edward Mccall ¿ Angelina Weld Grimke ¿ Anne Spencer ¿ Mary Effie Lee Newsome ¿ John Frederick Matheus ¿ Fenton Johnson ¿ Jessie Fauset ¿ Alice Dunbar Nelson ¿ Georgia Douglas Johnson ¿ Claude McKay ¿ Jean Toomer ¿ Joseph S. Cotter...

Poet, playwright, novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903-1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun, his second book of poetry, explores the emotional consequences of being black, Christian, bisexual, and a poet in Jazz Age America-such as in the following "Confession": If for a day joy masters me, Think not my wounds are healed, Far d...

Implementing a long-term monitoring program will help us more critically assess the impacts of our management actions to better understand their impacts upon Whooping Cranes, Sandhill Cranes, and the other bird species that pass through and breed in the Big Bend region of the Platte River in Nebraska. It is also our responsibility to publish, in scientific journals and management publications, the results of our research so that we may inform ...

In 2022 we are living through a global pandemic, and vaccines are one of the most effective strategies for slowing the spread of infectious disease, minimizing symptoms, and lowering healthcare demands. In short, vaccines save lives and can reduce the risk of contagion from social interaction. In the United States in late 2021, after the vaccines had been broadly available for almost a year, one in five adults still chose not to get vaccinated...

Originally published in Tokyo in 1903, Hanakatsura (literally "garland of flowers") features a biographical sketch of the activist and author Kishida Toshiko (Baroness Nakajima) plus four short stories by Japanese women writers of the Meiji era: Akebonozome: A Cloth Dyed in Rainbow Colors, by Kaho Miyake ¿tsugomori: The Last Day of the Year, by Ichiyo Higuchi Onisenbiki: The Thousand Devils, by Usurai Kitada (Mrs. Kajita) Shinobine, by Otsu...

The memories recalled in the twenty-seven essays in the volume are anchored in sometimes intense and sometimes admittedly naive graduate student experiences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the 1970's. Master's degree in hand, I returned to graduate study at Nebraska in 1972 after four years in the military, benefitting not only from the G.I. Bill, but also from a National Defense Education Act Fellowship. I was increasingly wise t...

Maurice Magnus was 39 years old when he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion to join the fight against Germany in World War I. Magnus was an American expatriot living in Rome-a theatrical agent, tutor, newspaper correspondent, writer, editor, and literary entrepreneur. He soon discovered his error-the Legion he found consisted largely of German exiles, prison-avoiding felons, and contemptuous French officers. Magnus spent about six weeks trai...

From the Foreword: Railroads have been important in American history since the mid-nineteenth century for national unification, the settlement of the American West, the industrial revolution, economic growth, models of complex organization for other large corporations, and the transition of America from rural, agrarian society to urban, industrial society. The railroads' transformative influence of technological change and social change has be...

Signs: Savanah to Key West documents my 800-mile, 13-day bicycle ride in 2018-2019. It starts fifty miles outside of Savanah, Georgia, and follows the Atlantic coastline to Key West, Florida. The trip culminates in Niceville to visit my grandpa, a military veteran and engineer born in 1924. I've ridden across the country twice. In 2017, I bicycled the Trans America Bicycle Trail from Astoria, Oregon to Yorktown, Virigina. In 2018, I bicycled ...

Great River Legs is a lyric collection of prose poetry, creative nonfiction, and found poetry. This creative response documents my 1, 398 mile, 25-day bicycle ride from Muscatine, Iowa, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between October 2017-March 2018. The journey took place in legs over breaks during the school year, with two additional back-to-back weekend rides that started the adventure. Wiseman embraces the many parts of herself-cyclist, data co...

Setsuko Koizumi (1868-1932) was the daughter of a Japanese samurai family in Matsué. In 1891 she married a foreigner - Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - and their union lasted 13 years and produced three children. Hearn adopted her family name, becoming Koizumi Yakumo ¿¿¿¿, and spent those years in Japan writing, teaching, and achieving international recognition. Setsuko's Reminiscences tells something of the couple's moves and travels, but focuses...

Collected papers from the Conference on Pre-Columbian Textiles VIII, which was organized by Serge LeMaitre and held at the Museum of Art and History in Brussels on March 18th to 22nd, 2019. Includes chapters by Jessica Lévy Contreras, Ann H. Peters, Carolina Agüero & Arturo Martínez, Amy Oakland, Lourdes Chocano Mena, Arabel Fernández L. & Luis Valle A., Isabel Martínez Armijo, Anna-Maria Begerock & Mercedes González, Penelope Dransart, Beatri...

Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between generations: the dying mother (usually) instructing and advising children on the path to salvation and heavenly reunions. They were a popular and influential form of women's discourse that distilled the ideologies of the religious establishment into practical and emotional lessons for lay persons, especially the young. This collection draws togeth...

The Platte River extends about 310 mi (499 km) from North Platte, Nebraska, to its terminus at the Missouri River confluence near Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The Platte River Valley is a continentally significant ecosystem that serves as a major stopover for migratory waterbirds in the Central Flyway including the endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana) and >1 million Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) at the peak of spring migration. However...

This book focuses upon a dozen French writers who have helped to set the terms for contemporary French literature and its horizon of possibility. Though they have pursued significantly different paths, each one of them is committed to the principle of literary innovation, to making French literature new. They work in full cognizance of literary history and of the tradition that they inherit, even as they reshape that tradition in each of their...