In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote

The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region." [GPQ 1981 (1:1:3)]

Great Plains Quarterly is published four times a year and includes peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of regional topics. Great Plains Quarterly seeks a readership of scholars and interested laypersons, and publishes articles on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains, which include the US states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. The journal is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors. Issues include articles on Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park, transient services in Kansas during 1933-35, maps of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation, sea and prairiescapes in contemporary art, racial violence in Kansas, and critical essays on Mari Sandoz and Willa Cather.

Starting with Volume 34 (2014), Great Plains Quarterly is published by University of Nebraska Press and distributed online through Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/627.

2003

Review of When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir By Bob Kerrey, Marilyn B. Young

Review of "They Treated Us Just Like Indians": The Worlds of Bennett County, South Dakota By Paula L. Wagoner, Larry J. Zimmerman

2002

Booknotes- May 2002

Book Notes- Winter 2002

Notes and News

Notes and News- Winter 2002

Title and Contents- Fall 2002

Title and Contents- Summer 2002

Title and Contents- Winter 2002

Review of Shapers of the Great Debate on Native Americans- Land, Spirit, and Power: A Biographical Dictionary By Bruce E. Johansen, Robert L. Bee

Book Review: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook , Robert Bensen

Review of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History By Joy S. Kasson, Sarah J. Blackstone

Book Review: Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes. By John H. Monnett., Alan Boye

Book Review: Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions by Andrew Gulliford, G. Ian Brace

Migration Of The Great Plains An Introduction, Charles A. Braithwaite

Book Review: "Peace, Progress and Prosperity": A Biography of Saskatchewan's First Premier, T. Walter Scott. By Gordon L. Barnhart., J. William Brennan

Review of Letters from the Dust Bowl By Caroline Henderson, Brian Q. Cannon

Review of The Frontiers and Catholic Identities Edited by Anne M. Butler, Michael E. Engh, and Thomas W. Spalding, Robert C. Carriker

Review of Indian Orphanages By Marilyn Irvin Holt, Michael C. Coleman

A Slave To Yellow Peril The 1886 Chinese Ouster Attempt In Wichita, Kansas, Julie Courtwright

Review of A Flowering of Quilts Edited by Patricia Cox Crews, Joe Cunningham

Review of Greengrass Pipe Dancers By Lionel Little Eagle, Kathleen Danker

Review of Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions By Joseph Epes Brown with Emily Cousins, Kathleen Danker

Review of Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns: Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising By Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Johnston, E.D. Dover

Book Review: Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America by Dorothee E. Kocks., Betsy Downey

Book Review: Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields by Sharon Butala, Bill Draper Finlaw

Review of The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge Edited by Wayne R. Kime, Scott Eckberg

Book Review: Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 by Sherry L. Smith, Lincoln Faller

Book Review: Naming the Winds: A High Plains Apprenticeship by Caroline Marwitz, Stefani Jaye Farris

Review of Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Photography and text by Edward S. Curtis, Richard Francaviglia

Book Review: Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma by Robert Lee Maril, Robert Fulton

Review of F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives By Klaus Martens, Irene Gammel

Review of Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder By Beth Loffreda, John Gilgun

Book Review: The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Dan Flores, Emily Greenwald

Book Review: The Urban Indian Experience in America by Donald L. Fixico, Liz Grobsmith

Review of Medicine That Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940 By Maureen K. Lux, R. Wesley Heber

Review of Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940 By William Wyckoff, Kenneth Helphand

Review of Plain Speaking: Essays on Aboriginal Peoples and the Prairie Edited by Patrick Douaud and Bruce Dawson, L. Brooks Hill

"Private" Lives And "Public" Writing Rhetorical Practices Of Western Nebraska Women, Charlotte Hogg

Review of World War II and the American Indian by Kenneth William Townsend, Tom Holm

Review of Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed By Stephen O' Connor, Marilyn Irvin Holt

Review of Quilting Lessons: Notes from the Scrap Bag of a Writer and Quilter By Janet Catherine Berlo, Laurel Horton

A Longitudinal Approach To Great Plains Migration, John C. Hudson

Review of Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier By Carlton Smith, Shari M. Huhndorf

Review of New Essays on My Antonia Edited by Sharon O'Brien, Andrew Jewell

Review of General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons By George Rollie Adams, Randy Kane

Book Review: Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk’s Vision of the Lakota World by Janet Catherine Berlo, James D. Keyser

Review of The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis By Edward S. Curtis, Clara Sue Kidwell

Review of Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954 By Paul C. Rosier, Darrell Robes Kipp

Book Review: The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul by Lois J. Einhorn, Randall A. Lake

Book Review: âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy . They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing. Told by Alice Ahenakew, Rory M. Larson

Review of Gathering Remnants: A Tribute to the Working Cowboy Photographs by Kendall Nelson, J. C. Leacock

Review of Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska: The Plains Indian Country By LaVerne Harrell Clark, Kim Lee

Congressman Usher Burdick Of North Dakota And The "Ungodly Menace" Anti-United Nations Rhetoric, 1950-1958, Bernard Lemelin

Review of Voices of Wounded Knee By William S. E. Coleman, Christer Lindberg

MENDING THE SACRED HOOP: IDENTITY ENACTMENT AND THE OCCUPATION OF WOUNDED KNEE, Sheryl L. Lindsley, Charles Braithwaite, and Kristin L. Ahlberg

Review of Willa Cather and Others By Jonathan Goldberg, Heather K. Love

Review of Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 Edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail, Margaret A. MacKichan

Review of Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922 By James R. Shortridge, Alfred Young Man

Review of Kit Carson and the Indians By Tom Dunlay, Robert S. McPherson

Review of Fort Reno and the Indian Territory Frontier By Stan Hoig, Warren Metcalf

Review of Mackenzie King and the Prairie West By Robert A. Wardhaugh, Allen Mills

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: BOY ORATOR, BROKEN MAN, AND THE "EVOLUTION" OF AMERICA'S PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY, Troy A. Murphy

Review of Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark By James P. Ronda, Greg O'Brien

The Beginning Of The End The Indian Peace Commission Of 1867~1868, Kerry R. Oman

Review of Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture By William Conlogue, Mary Paniccia-Carden

Review of Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America By Matthew G. Hannah, Christine Pappas

Review of Dakota Circle: Excursions on the True Plains By Tom Isern, Kimberly K. Porter

Book Review: Dust Bowl USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1 941 By Brad D. Lookingbill, Diane Quantic

Review of The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir By Linda Hogan, Diane Quantic

Book Review: The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People By Connie A. Jacobs, Catherine Rainwater

Book Review: Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865- 1907. By Murray R. Wickett, Linda W. Reese

Book Review: Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History, Jane Reid Thompson

Piecing Together The Ponca Past Reconstructing Degiha Migrations To The Great Plains, Beth R. Ritter

Drawn By The Bison Late Prehistoric Native Migration Into The Central Plains, Lauren W. Ritterbush

Review of Cold Snap as Yearning By Robert Vivian, Jonathan Ritz

Book Review: Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South, Marcia Robertson

Review of The Kiowas and the Legend of Kicking Bird By Stan Hoig, with three Kiowa tales by Col. W. S. Nye, Charles M. Robinson III

The Making of Little Sweden, USA, Steven M. Schnell

Review of I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions By Louis Owens, Lee Schweninger

Review of Ed Ruscha By Neal Benezra and Kerry Brougher, with a contribution by Phyllis Rosenzweig, Daniel A. Siedell

Book Review: Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years By Kathy E. Zimon, Colleen Skidmore

Review of Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta By Aritha van Herk, Donald B. Smith

Book Review: lourneys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866, Sherry L. Smith

Book Review: The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823 by William R. Nester, Victoria A.O. Smith

Book Review: General Crook and the Western Frontier by Charles M. Robinson III, Michael L. Tate

Review of Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 By Gretchen Cassel Eick, Timothy N. Thurber

CASTING THE BUFFALO COMMONS: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF PRINT MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE BUFFALO COMMONS PROPOSAL FOR THE GREAT PLAINS, Mary L. Umberger

Review of Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader Edited by Lee Irwin, Christopher Vecsey

Review of Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 By Amanda J. Cobb, Mary Jane Warde

"She Had Never Humbled Herself" Alexandra Bergson And Marie Shabata As The "Real" Pioneers Of O Pioneers!,/i>, Douglas W. Werden

Book Review: Winning the Dust Bowl by Carter Revard, Norma Wilson

Review of Handbook of North American Indians Volume 13. Plains. Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, David J. Wishart

Book Review: Tent Show: Arthur Names and His "Famous" Players by Donald W. Whisenhunt, Terry Wunder

2001

Book News- Fall 2001

Book Notes- Winter 2001

Notes and News- Fall 2001

Notes and news- Spring 2001

Notes and News- Summer 2001

Title and Contents- Fall 2001