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Vol. 44, no. 1 (Winter 2024)
Contents
Articles
“Kansas Women Are Awake”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Journeys in Kansas and the Origins of Women and Economics
Chase M. Billingham
Following the Ruins: History and Memory in a Prairie Ghost Town
James Flath and Robert Wardhaugh
Summit Springs: A Historiography in Stone
Terrence I. Dunn
“There’s Never Been Much Use for Reality Out Here”: Theorizing a Great Plains Regional Gothic in Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories
Aaron LaDuke
Creative Nonfiction
Out There: In Praise of the Horizonal Mandate
Philip Davis
Book Reviews
Loyd Uglow. A Military History of Texas. Number 15 in the War and the Southwest Series
James V. Koch
Tom Lynch. Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary
Alyson L. Greiner
Jacqueline Shea Murphy. Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation
Jessica Friedman
Michael Sherwin. Vanishing Points
Allen Morris
Benjamin J. Wetzel. American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860–1920
Harry DeVoe
Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld. The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
Michael K. Johnson
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Editor
Ramón Guerra
English, University of Nebraska Omaha
Review Essays Editor
George E. Wolf
English, Emeritus, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Book Reviews Editor
Rebecca Buller
Geography, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Editorial Assistant
Melissa A. Amateis
Copyeditor
Lona Dearmont
Editorial Board
William E. Farr
History, Emeritus, University of Montana
P. Jane Hafen
English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Timothy J. Kloberdanz
Anthropology, North Dakota State University
Jessica Metcalfe
Native American Studies, University of Arizona
Elizabeth Theiss Smith
Political Science, University of South Dakota
Victoria Smith
History and Ethnic Studies/Native American Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Susan Shulten
History, University of Denver
Thomas Sanchez
Sociology and Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska–Omaha
"Tulsa, Then and Now: Reflections on the Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" (Vol. 40 No. 3, 2020)
"Bullets and Ballots: Destruction, Resistance, and Reaction in 1920s Texas and Oklahoma" (Vol. 39 No. 2, 2019)
"A Madman and a Visionary: George Francis Train, Speculation, and the Territorial Development of the Great Plains" (Vol. 34 No. 1, 2014)
"Unsettling Landscapes: Prairie Madness and EcoGothic Themes in US Plains Literature" (Vol. 39 No. 3, 2019)
"A Populist Approach to Foreign Policy: Governor William A. Poynter, the South African War, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1901" (Vol. 34 No. 1, 2014)
As online communities continue to widen their reach, so too does our list of peer-reviewed articles on various subjects including Journalism, Communal Narrative, Activism, Marketing, and Image Rehabilitation.
Reading List: MigrationThis list of peer-reviewed materials features articles on many topics spanning Globalization, Genocide, Religion, Diaspora Communities, and other aspects on the topic of Migration.
Reading List: Willa CatherThis list of peer-reviewed articles & reviews centers on the work of acclaimed author (and UNL alum) Willa Cather. Known for her novels on the pioneer experience, her works are reexamined here through the lens of modern-day academics.
Reading List: Climate ChangeCheck out this list of peer-reviewed articles focusing on Critical Theory, Environmental Ethics, Economics & Business, and other areas of study on Climate Change.
Reading List: Women's Political Action in the U.S.Resources for use in discussions of women's political activities in the U.S., both contemporary and historical.
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Read the author's plain language summary of "Restorative Narrative: Nonfiction and the Resetting of the Grasslands' Future" from Vol. 40, no. 1---
Read the author's plain language summary of The Nebraska War of the Roses: The Conflict in Founding a Methodist University" from Vol. 40, no. 1---
Read the author's plain language summary of "Justice, Not Charity: Luna Kellie and Great Plains Populist Reform, 1890–1901" from Vol. 40, no. 3---
Read the author's plain language summary of "“Our Eyes Ached with the Very Vastness”: Reimagining the Great American Desert as the Great American Prairie" from Vol. 39, no. 3---
Read the author's plain language summary of "The Women West of Here: Reckoning Their Place in the Western, Pop Culture, and History" from Vol. 42, no. 1-2---
Read the author's plain language summary of "Epicenter: Deep Mapping Place in Fiction and Nonfiction" from Vol. 37, no. 4---