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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Amos Alonzo Stagg and Japanese American Internment
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Last year I received a Platzman Fellowship from the University of Chicago Library, which allowed me to spend some time over the summer in th...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
On the Omahawks, Omaha's First Big-League Basketball Team
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In the next issue of Nebraska History I have an article that details the brief history of the Omahawks, a professional basketball team that...
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Monday, February 1, 2016
African Americans and Omaha: A Reading List
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Recently I reviewed Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson's Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race (Texas Tech Unive...
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Monday, November 16, 2015
The Rest of Tom Osborne's "Currens Story"
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Legendary former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne has long promoted the importance of mentoring. In 1991 he and his wife Nancy launched t...
Monday, August 10, 2015
Flannery O'Connor's Favorite Protestant Theologian
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I did a double take when I saw this passage: "She never missed Dr. Frank Crane, an advice columnist....Appearing on the same page as ...
Monday, August 3, 2015
Summer Book List: The Rise of the National Basketball Association
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If you're looking for a book on the history of the NBA that features tables with titles like "Fixed-Effects Regression Equation f...
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Frank Crane, From the Pulpit to the Press
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A couple years ago on a Tuesday afternoon I drove to First United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska. There I met Diane and Donna, the chur...
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Summer Book List: Henry George (and George Norris) and the Crisis of Inequality
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Note: this is the second book in my "Summer Book List" series. In the first installment I discussed Murry Nelson's The Nationa...
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Summer Book List: Learning about the National Basketball League
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Recently I had time for a little pleasure reading, so I picked up Murry Nelson's history of the National Basketball League. For those ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Writing about Nebraska
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One of my favorite stops on the internet is Religion & Politics . They're not a rapid-fire content accumulator or aggregator. Instea...
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