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  A Short Account of that Part of Africa Inhabited by the Negroes

  Anthony Benezet and Paul Royster , ed.

  Anthony Benezet scoured the available English literature of colonial exploitation for evidence of the humanity of the trafficked Africans and the inhumanity of the European traders in human beings. He compiled and published this Short Account in 1762 to present the case for termination of the trans-Atlantic transportation of kidnapped Africans, for abolition of slavery and the slave trade, and for emancipation of the enslaved persons held in bondage in North America and elsewhere. Drawing on Scottish moral philosophy, British Whig ideology, and, most importantly, on New Testament gospel teachings, Benezet presented both reasoned and impassioned appeals for the recognition that Africans had rights to life and liberty that were being abrogated on an industrial scale in violation of the most sacred Christian beliefs.

  Benezet (1713–1784) was a refugee from France by way of England whose family had relocated to Philadelphia in 1731. He became a schoolteacher who founded the first public school for girls in America in 1755 and the Negro School at Philadelphia for black children in 1770. Benezet was an active member of the Quaker meetings and had previously authored a short pamplet (1760) and an epistle to congregations (1754) against the participation of Quakers and other Christians in “the man-trade.” This Short Account in 1762 was a more ambitious work, combining anti-slavery arguments with historical and sociological information about Africa and its ongoing exploitation. Informed by wide reading, particularly the serialized A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1745-1747), known as Astley’s Collections, Benezet turned the literature of exploration and conquest into an argument for the common humanity of Africans. He found evidence that they were settled, cultured, independent, and largely peaceable; he contradicted the prevalent notion that enslaved transportees were prisoners of war who would otherwise have been executed; and he exposed the centuries-old efforts of English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese merchant enterprises to profit from buying and selling Negro men, women, and children. The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the height of the English and North American participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and this early abolitionist tract raised an important and ultimately influential outcry in favor of its termination and the remediation of its manifold abuses.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1507

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  The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997. Part I (1980–1983)

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, compilers. The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997, with prefaces and author indices by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. 3 volumes: Part I (1980–1983)

  The Midwest Feminist Papers was a creative, group-generated initiative that gave voice to the scholarly questions, research interests, and social concerns of a growing cohort of Midwestern feminist sociology graduate students and their feminist faculty mentors during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. They were active members of Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, a regional expression of the larger national Sociologists for Women in Society. Never intended as a full-fledged professional journal, issues of The Midwest Feminist Papers were intermittently distributed in limited numbers, at cost, during annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society and quickly went out of print. As a result, very few copies of these “time capsule” documents of late 20^th century feminist sociology survived. In 1984, the late Carla Howery, writing from her office in the American Sociological Association, assessed the role of The Midwest Feminist Papers: “[It] is one of the nicest traditions, young as it is, in the full range of activities of the national and regional chapters of Sociologists for Women in Society.” Here, Nebraska’s Mary Jo Deegan (a co-founder of the journal) and Michael R. Hill (her life-partner and a subsequent contributor) have painstakingly reconstructed the entire run of The Midwest Feminist Papers. This facsimile edition is here reproduced in three volumes: Part I (1980–1983), Part II (1984–1986), and Part III (1991–1997)

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  The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997. Part II (1984–1986)

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, compilers. The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997, with prefaces and author indices by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. 3 volumes: Part II (1984–1986)

  The Midwest Feminist Papers was a creative, group-generated initiative that gave voice to the scholarly questions, research interests, and social concerns of a growing cohort of Midwestern feminist sociology graduate students and their feminist faculty mentors during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. They were active members of Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, a regional expression of the larger national Sociologists for Women in Society. Never intended as a full-fledged professional journal, issues of The Midwest Feminist Papers were intermittently distributed in limited numbers, at cost, during annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society and quickly went out of print. As a result, very few copies of these “time capsule” documents of late 20^th century feminist sociology survived. In 1984, the late Carla Howery, writing from her office in the American Sociological Association, assessed the role of The Midwest Feminist Papers: “[It] is one of the nicest traditions, young as it is, in the full range of activities of the national and regional chapters of Sociologists for Women in Society.” Here, Nebraska’s Mary Jo Deegan (a co-founder of the journal) and Michael R. Hill (her life-partner and a subsequent contributor) have painstakingly reconstructed the entire run of The Midwest Feminist Papers. This facsimile edition is here reproduced in three volumes: Part I (1980–1983), Part II (1984–1986), and Part III (1991–1997)

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  The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997. Part III (1991–1997)

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill

  Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, compilers. The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997, with prefaces and author indices by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. 3 volumes: Part III (1991–1997)

  The Midwest Feminist Papers was a creative, group-generated initiative that gave voice to the scholarly questions, research interests, and social concerns of a growing cohort of Midwestern feminist sociology graduate students and their feminist faculty mentors during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. They were active members of Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, a regional expression of the larger national Sociologists for Women in Society. Never intended as a full-fledged professional journal, issues of The Midwest Feminist Papers were intermittently distributed in limited numbers, at cost, during annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society and quickly went out of print. As a result, very few copies of these “time capsule” documents of late 20^th century feminist sociology survived. In 1984, the late Carla Howery, writing from her office in the American Sociological Association, assessed the role of The Midwest Feminist Papers: “[It] is one of the nicest traditions, young as it is, in the full range of activities of the national and regional chapters of Sociologists for Women in Society.” Here, Nebraska’s Mary Jo Deegan (a co-founder of the journal) and Michael R. Hill (her life-partner and a subsequent contributor) have painstakingly reconstructed the entire run of The Midwest Feminist Papers. This facsimile edition is here reproduced in three volumes: Part I (1980–1983), Part II (1984–1986), and Part III (1991–1997)

  
  

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  Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

  Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Louise Quillien, and Kalliope Sarri

  Research from COST Action “CA 19131 – EuroWeb”

  These essays on various aspects of textile research encompass a wide chronological perspective and vast geographical area, enriching traditional disciplines with innovative methodologies such as isotopic tracing of provenance, textile analysis, protein analysis, digital motion capture, and exploration of textile expressions in texts and folklore. All essays in this volume have been written by international teams of scholars from the participating countries. The anthology serves as a comprehensive and innovative resource, consolidating the research outcomes and insights gained from the interdisciplinary exploration of textiles in European history within the framework of EuroWeb. This volume has the potential to contribute to the advancement of European scientific excellence and competitiveness, fostering a deeper understanding of the cultural, technological, and societal significance of textiles and clothing in shaping European identity and heritage through the millenia. We hope that the anthology will find a wide and interested readership, and that it will inspire many new research projects in the field of textile history.

  Contributors: Dimitra Andrianou, Giacomo Bardelli, Magali An Berthon, Tina Boloti, Cecilie Brøns, Ana Cabrera-Lafuente, Francesca Coletti, Roxana Coman, Catarina Costeira, Cristina Cumbo, Camilla Cziffery Nielsen, Klara Dankova, Anna Maria Desiderio, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Arianna Esposito, Astrid Fendt, Nade Genevska Brachikj, Francisco B. Gomes, Judith Goris, Audrey Gouy, Karina Grömer, Morten Grymer-Hansen, Mary Harlow, Susanna Harris, Sophia Larissa Hayda, Angela Huang, Floor Huisman, Alina Iancu, Zofia Kaczmarek, Marisa Kerbizi, Meghan Korten, Tetiana Krupa, Karolina Anna Kulpa, Lena Larsson Lovén, Ronja Lau, Yuliia Lazorenko, Susanne Lervad, Petra Linscheid, Christina Margariti, Maria João Melo, Elena Miramontes Seijas, Leyre Morgado-Roncal, Juliane Müller, Paula Nabais, Jasemin Nazim, Marie-Louise B. Nosch, Tim Parry-Williams, Irina Petroviciu, Louise Quillien, Marie-Alice Rebours, Kalliope Sarri, Kayleigh Saunderson, Francesca Scotti, Joana Sequeira, Agata Ulanowska, Magdalena M. Wozniak, Anna Zimmermann

  378 pages, color illustrations

  DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1800

  Individual chapters are available online at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/texroads/

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  Concepts in Animal Parasitology

  Scott L. Gardner and Sue Ann Gardner

  This is a textbook covering concepts in animal parasitology. It is meant to be used by students, teachers, professors, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in learning about animal parasite biology, systematics, taxonomy, zoogeography, and ecology. The primary intended audience is upper-level undergraduate or graduate university students who have knowledge of basic biology and, particularly, basic animal biology. (863 pages, illustrated)

  One of the most fascinating things that a person can experience in the complex realm of biology is the discovery of an animal living inside another animal. If this discovery takes place at an early enough stage in the development of a young person’s view of the world, that is, before the rules and regulations of what of society thinks, and before what is good and what is bad are perfused into a learner’s mind, the first discovery of living-motile trematode worms living inside the lungs of a frog or of tapeworms inhabiting the gut of a rodent can be exhilarating and a positively unforgettable experience. The questions that arise when these kinds of animals are encountered for the first time are innumerable and, if answered carefully and perhaps fully, may lead to more and more questions, and hopefully, more and more answers.

  Contents:

  Preface

  Part I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

  1: Introduction to Animal Parasitology. 2: Phylogenetic Systematics in Parasitology. 3: Helminth Identification and Diagnostics: Basic Molecular Techniques. • Parasites in Relation to Other Organisms 4: Hosts, Reservoirs, and Vectors. 5: Life Cycles. 6: Behavioral Parasitology. • Parascript Approaches 7: Biostatistics for Parasitologists: A Painless Introduction. 8: Distributional Ecology of Parasites

  Part II: PROTOZOA, MYXOZOA, MESOZOA

  Apicomplexa — 9: The Coccidia Proper: Important Apicomplexa Other than Haemoprotozoa. 10: Haemosporida (Order): The “Malaria Parasites”

  Trypanosomatidae — 11: Trypanosoma (Genus). 12: Leishmania (Genus) and Leishmaniasis.

  Myxozoa — 13: Myxozoa (Subphylum).

  Mesozoa — 14: Mesozoa (Phylum Dicyemida and Phylum Orthonecta).

  Part III: ENDOPARASITIC PLATYHELMINTHS

  Platyhelminthes — 15: Introduction to Endoparasitic Platyhelminths (Phylum Platyhelminthes).

  Cestoda: 16: Introduction to Cestodes (Class Cestoda). • Eucestoda — 17: Introduction to Cyclophyllidea Beneden in Braun, 1900 (Order). 18: Taenia (Genus). 19: Echinococcus (Genus). 20: Proteocephalidae La Rue, 1911 (Family). 21: Bothriocephalidea Kuchta et al., 2008 (Order). 22: Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta et al., 2008 (Order): The Broad Tapeworms. 23: Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Order). 24: Cathetocephalidea Schmidt and Beveridge, 1990 (Order). 25: Diphyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863 (Order). 26: Lecanicephalidea Hyman, 1951 (Order). 27: Litobothriidea Dailey, 1969 (Order). 28: Phyllobothriidea Caira et al., 2014 (Order). 29: Rhinebothriidea Healy et al., 2009 (Order). 30: Relics of “Tetraphyllidea” van Beneden, 1850 (Order). • Amphilinidea — 31: Amphilinidea Poche 1922 (Order). • Gyrocotylidea — 32: Gyrocotylidea (Order): The Most Primitive Group of Tapeworms.

  Trematoda: • Aspidogastrea — 33: Aspidogastrea (Subclass). • Digenea, Diplostomida — 34: Introduction to Diplostomida Olson et al., 2003 (Order). 35: Aporocotylidae (Family): Fish Blood Flukes. • Digenea, Plagiorchiida — 36: Introduction to Plagiorchiida La Rue, 1957 (Order). 37: Bivesiculata Olson et al., 2003 (Suborder): Small, Rare, but Important. 38: Echinostomata La Rue, 1926 (Suborder). 39: Haplosplanchnata Olson et al., 2003 (Suborder): Two Hosts with Half the Guts. 40: Hemiurata Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954 (Suborder). 41: Monorchiata Olson et al., 2003 (Suborder): Two Families Separated by Salinity. 42: Opisthorchis (Genus). • Xiphidiata — 43: Allocreadiidae Looss, 1902 (Family). 44: Haematoloechidae Odening, 1964 (Family). 45: Lecithodendriidae Lühe, 1901 (Family). 46: Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 (Family): The Richest Trematode Family. • Digenea — 47: Summary of the Digenea (Subclass): Insights and Lessons from a Prominent Parasitologist.

  Part IV: NEMATA, NEMATOMORPHA, ACANTHOCEPHALA, PENTASTOMIDA

  Nemata — 48: Introduction to Endoparasitic Nematodes (Phylum Nemata). 49: Trichuroidea and Trichinelloidea (Superfamilies). 50: Ascaridoidea (Superfamily): Large Intestinal Nematodes. 51: Heterakoidea (Superfamily): Cosmopolitan Gut-Dwelling Parasites of Tetrapods. 52: Oxyurida (Order): Pinworms. 53: Spirurida (Order). 54: Camallanina (Suborder): Guinea Worm and Related Nematodes. 55: Filarioidea (Superfamily). 56: Strongyloidea and Trichostrongyloidea (Superfamilies): Bursate Nematodes.

  Nematomorpha — 57: Nematomorpha (Phylum): Horsehair Worms

  Acanthocephala — 58: Acanthocephala (Phylum).

  Pentastomida — 59: Pentastomida: Endoparasitic Arthopods.

  Part V: ECTOPARASITES

  Platyhelminthes — 60: Monogenea (Class). 61: Transversotremata (Suborder): Ectoparasitic Trematodes.

  Hirudinia– 62: Hirudinia (Class): Parasitic Leeches

  Arthropoda — 63: Siphonaptera (Order): Fleas. 64: Phthiraptera (Order): Lice. 65: Triatominae (Subfamily): Kissing Bugs. 66: Acari (Order): Ticks. 67: Acari (Order): Mites

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  Books, Boots, and Beer Halls in Germany: Observations by a Young Nebraskan Studying in Europe, 1876–1878

  George Elliott Howard and Michael R. Hill

  Long before George Elliott Howard (1849–1928) became one of Nebraska’s premier sociologists and was elected president of the American Sociological Association (1917), he was a footloose young scholar who pursued postgraduate education in Germany during 1876–1878. Eager to share his adventures, Howard wrote and dispatched seven insightful essays that were quickly published in Nebraska newspapers. Here, collected together for the first time, are Howard’s firsthand observations on travel in Europe, life and learning in Germany, studying the German language, student beer-drinking societies, and a walking tour in Austria. Edited and introduced by Michael R. Hill, Howard’s essays are placed squarely in the academic milieu of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Simultaneously, Howard’s written chronicles provide delightfully inspiring examples for young scholars today who dream of travel and study in foreign lands.

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  Waking Up before We Die: Aging and Spirituality

  Marcelline Hutton

  In retirement, I have more time for prayer and reflection, to rest in the Lord, and hence to have my spirit renewed. We choose how we interpret our situations. Positive, spiritual aging ideas enhance our sense of well-being. Of course, the loss of loved ones decreases our sense of self-worth at times, but the Spirit can renew us. As Genesis reminds us, God was still working in the lives of Sarah and Abraham in old age, and they can serve as models for us. Indeed, Sarah laughed at the angels and shows us how humor exists even as we age. God wants us to be fully alive at all ages, even old age. While the old nursery rhyme/prayer says

  Now I lay me down to sleep
  I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
  If I should die before I wake,
  I pray the Lord my soul to take.

  We can also say, “If I should wake before I die.” That’s our hope, to wake and live before we die.

  doi 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1507

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  The American West, 1899–1936: Prose, Poetry & Drama

  Harriet Monroe, Michael R. Hill, and Lindsay Atnip

  This comprehensive volume presents Harriet Monroe’s (1860–1936) previously unexplored love affair with the American West, an infatuation that blossomed in three interrelated genres: prose, poetry, and drama. Known internationally as the founder and influential editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, here Monroe is revealed as a prolific author with a passion for the people, scenery, and environments she encountered during western escapes from her constricted urban life in Chicago. Monroe’s western travels were transformative. Originally schooled in the literary and artistic traditions of Europe, Monroe became increasingly convinced of the fundamental importance of the American West as the muse to which American writers and artists should turn for inspiration. Her vivid impressions of the Grand Canyon, the rituals of Native Americans, and the camaraderie of outings with John Muir and the Sierra Club include writings drawn from newspaper accounts and early journal articles as well as previously unpublished archival materials. The foreword by Lindsay Atnip and the introduction by Michael R. Hill helpfully place Monroe’s genre-spanning writings within the vibrant artistic and intellectual milieu of the early twentieth century.

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  HARRIET MONROE: An American Poet in Vevey. Her Diary Entries, May 16 – July 26, 1898

  Harriet Monroe, Michael R. Hill, and Deborah Anna Logan

  Since its inception in 1912, Poetry magazine has been widely regarded as a premier resource for modern poetry and poets. Published in Chicago as Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, its legacy continues today through the Poetry Foundation, a superlative online resource for seekers of poets, poems, and random lines needing identification. A less immediately recognizable legacy is that of its founder, Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), one of those fin de siècle “intellectual women” typically dismissed as a contradiction in terms. But Monroe was a force to be reckoned with, and this beautifully crafted volume participates in the recuperation of a life and career dedicated to facilitating and promoting modern poetry in the twentieth-century and beyond.

  Michael Hill’s Harriet Monroe, An American Poet In Vevey: Her Diary Entries, May 16 - July 26, 1898 offers sensitively rendered, artfully embellished insights into Monroe’s European travels. Its focus on her sojourn in Vevey vibrantly illustrates the broader “geopoetic excursions” that shaped the life and career of one whose impact on the Chicago arts scene continues today. Along with his work in geography and “pedestrian travel,” Professor Hill brings to this study his distinguished record of contributions to the history of sociology. His pioneering work on Victorian traveler and sociologist Harriet Martineau — a consummate hiker — finds resonance in the late-century American traveler and arts activist, Harriet Monroe; the parallels and differences marking the two offer striking perspectives on the alternative experiences of nineteenth-century women who were not married-with-children.

  Well-educated and given access to many books, Harriet Monroe had literary ambitions that included poetry, verse-dramas, nonfiction prose, art criticism and journalism (Chicago Tribune). From early in life, she was determined to be “great and famous,” to leave behind “some memorable record.” Conventional associations linking poetry with a sort of immortality here play out in a writer who chose to ignore the “truism” that women cannot write poetry. As an editor, Monroe’s signature contribution to literary history concerns her emphasis on the professionalization of poetry through establishing a publication devoted to writing that was new and innovative, and for which poets were fairly paid. In the words of Poetry editor Don Share, Monroe “invented a box … and promptly set to work thinking outside it.”

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1508

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  IX Jornadas Internacionales de Textiles Precolombinos y Amerindianos / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles

  Carolina Orsini , editora and Federica Villa , editora

  Milan, 19-22 octubre de 2022: Textiles arqueológicos de los Andes centrales – Archaeological textiles from the Central Andes / Textiles arqueológicos de los Andes sur - Archaeological textiles from the Southern Andes / Iconografía y simbolismo - Iconography and Symbolism / Estudios de colecciones - Collection Studies/ Conservación – Conservation / Textiles etnográficos - Ethnographic Textiles

  Marina Pugliese / Carolina Orsini / Federica Villa / Daniela Biermann / Amy Oakland / Lizbeth Pariona, Carlos Rengifo y Moisés Tufinio / Rommel Angeles Falcón / Lourdes Chocano Mena / Rommel Ángeles, Susana Abad y Janet Oshiro / Lucrezia Milillo / Sabine Hyland / Shelley Burian / Arabel Fernández López / Tracy Martens / Soledad Hoces de la Guardia Chellew y Ana María T. Rojas Zepeda / Elisa Cont / Verónica Cereceda Bianchi / Victòria Solanilla Demestre / Jessica Lévy Contreras y Ann H. Peters / Penelope Dransart / Anne-Françoise Martin / Silvana Di Lorenzo, Lucila Pesoa, Cecilia Pérez de Micou y María del Carmen Toribio / Carolina Orsini y Cinzia Oliva / Lic. Miriam Elizabeth Castro Rodríguez, Dra. Gloria Martha Sánchez Valenzuela y Dr. Orlando Martínez Zapata / Dra. Gloria Martha Sánchez Valenzuela y Mtra. Amaranta González Hurtado / Yatahli Otilia Rosas Sandoval y Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano / María Elena del Solar / Nathalie Santisteban-D. / Eva Fischer / Agustín Daniel Leonardo Miranda Cossío / Olga Liliana Sulca y Enrique Oscar Cifre Kargachin / Claudia Rocha Valverde

  Comité Científico – Scientific Committee : Lena Bjerregaard, Arabel Fernández, Carolina Orsini, Ann Peters, Victòria Solanilla / Secretaría Científica – Scientific Secretary : Federica Villa

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1600

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  Segundo congreso internacional de iconografía precolombina, 2023. Actas

  Victòria Solanilla Demestre

  El objetivo de este II Congreso fue, como en el anterior, abrir un espacio de reflexión propositiva y multidisciplinaria para que, a partir de análisis de objetos plásticos u otras manifestaciones concretas, así como de documentos escritos, se pudiera replantear la importancia de la imagen y de la interpretación iconográfica como fuente de conocimiento de las culturas precolombinas. Es el momento de seguir aceptando nuevos enfoques pluridisciplinares o si se quiere más “humanísticos” que nos den una visión lo más completa posible, a través de la iconografía, del pasado precolombino tan rico en imágenes y símbolos.

  Contribuciones de Luz Adriana Alzate Gallego, Denise Y. Arnold, Luz Helena Ballestas, Isabel Bargalló, Montserrat Bargalló, Andrés Bestard Maggio, Sonia Blanco, María Alba Bovisio, María Montserrat Camacho Angeles, Roberto Campos-Navarro, Uwe Carlson, Elisa Cont, Patrizia Di Cosimo, Leydi Dorantes, Danielle Dupiech Cavaleri, Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín, Noa Font Agraz, Nicholas Hellmuth, Dra Chantal Huckert, Sarah Kauffmann, Ana María Llamazares, Pascal Mongne, Rubén B. Morante López, Pablo Alberto Mumary Farto, Patricia Ochoa Castillo, Radosław Palonka, Carmen Pérez Maestro, Sarai Ramos Muñoz, Geydy Rodríguez Wood, Roberto Romero Sandoval, Marisa Sánchez David, Catalina Simmonds, Ranferi Juárez Silva, y Victòria Solanilla.

  DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1700

  Individual chapters are available online at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/actas2023/

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  Reports on the Cost of Administration of Criminal Justice in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, 1933: A Facsimile Edition & Contextual Casebook.

  Hattie Plum Williams, Michael R. Hill, and Mary Jo Deegan

  The professional life of Hattie Plum Williams (1878–1963) epitomized the first generation of professional women sociologists on the Great Plains. At the University of Nebraska, she became the first woman in the world known to hold a regular appointment as chair of a coeducational, doctoral department of sociology (1923–1928). Often characterized as a social worker, her professional allegiance remained to sociology. Williams’ unsung labors in the early 1930s on behalf of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (NCLOE) resulted in two detailed, typewritten accounts of crime and criminal justice in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska. Her data collection, along with that of many researchers in other cities, provided an empirical foundation for the repeal of prohibition. Unlike other reports, however, Williams’ studies of Lincoln and Omaha were the only cost of crime investigations undertaken, directed, and completed essentially singlehandedly by a woman researcher. The reports are classic examples of her selfless dedication to scholarship, her state, and her university. This edition preserves Williams’ vulnerable typescripts and, together with an illuminating introduction by Michael R. Hill, presents her work for the NCLOE in the format of a contextual casebook providing instructive appendices by and about Williams as well as related materials issued by the NCLOE

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  Shan Song Xiao: English Edition

  Xifu, Jane Li, and Paul Royster

  This book describes the family story of three generations of daughters over the past century, starting from the grandmother to the mother, and then to the daughter. They lived overlapping lives, but each follows a different life path in different eras with different main themes. As time flies and life rushes by, they look back on the past and document their lives.

  The story travels from a rural village in Northeast China to an overcrowded modernized metropolis. It unfolds against a backdrop of invasion and occupation, liberation, collectivization and famine, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the emergence of China as an industrial power. Ultimately it tells how three young women each found ways to pursue their unconventional dreams in a traditional culture rocked by a century of enormous changes.

  Translated by Jane Li & Paul Royster.

  doi 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1508

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  A Monographic Revision of the Jewel Scarabs Genus Chrysina from Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini)

  Manuel D. Barria

  The work is a taxonomic revision of 28 species of the genus Chrysina Kirby (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) found in Panama (25), Colombia (2), and Ecuador (3). Chrysina tricolor (Ohaus), Chrysina chalcothea (Bates), and Chrysina cupreomarginata (F. Bates) are new re­cords for Panama. A new country record from northern Colombia is confirmed for Chrys­ina mercedesae Barria. Chrysina gaitalica Curoe and Hawks and Chrysina galbina Hawks are discovered at new localities in Panama; females of both species are discovered and described. Chrysina aurora (Bates) known from other localities in the west of the country, is rediscov­ered in Veraguas province 147 years after its description based on a female, the only specimen that had been collected in the province. Chrysina wolfi (Ohaus) is placed as a new junior syn­onym of Chrysina argenteola (Bates). A neotype is designated for Chrysina ohausi (Franz) according to ICZN Article 75.3. The oreicola group is proposed to include Chrysina oreicola (Morón). Photographs of adults, illustrations of diagnostic characters, distribution maps, and taxonomic keys (in English and Spanish) for the identification of the species present in Pan­ama, Colombia and Ecuador are presented.

  El presente trabajo consiste en una revisión taxonómica de 28 especies del género Chrysina Kirby (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini), 25 presentes en Panamá, 2 en Colombia y 3 en Ecua­dor. Chrysina tricolor (Ohaus), Chrysina chalcothea (Bates) y Chrysina cupreomarginata (F. Bates) son nuevos registros para Panamá. Se confirma un nuevo registro del norte de Co­lombia correspondientes a Chrysina mercedesae Barria. Chrysina gaitalica Curoe y Hawks y Chrysina galbina Hawks se descubren en nuevas localidades de Panamá; se descubren y des­criben hembras de ambas especies. Chrysina aurora (Bates) conocida en otras localidades del oeste del país, es redescubierta en la provincia de Veraguas después de 147 años desde su des­cripción a partir de una hembra, único ejemplar que había sido recolectado en la provincia. Chrysina wolfi (Ohaus) se considera una nueva sinonimia menor de Chrysina argenteola (Bates). Se asigna un neotipo a Chrysina ohausi (Franz) por aplicación del artículo 75.3 del CINZ. Se propone el grupo oreicola para incluir a Chrysina oreicola (Morón). Se presentan fotografías de adultos, ilustraciones de caracteres diagnósticos, mapas de distribución y cla­ves taxonómicas (en Inglés y Español) para la identificación de las especies presentes en Pa­namá, Colombia y Ecuador.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1345

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  Remembering Paul Johnsgard

  Linda R, Brown and Josef Kren

  Paul A. Johnsgard (1931–2021) was a friend of many, an artist, prolific author, teacher, and humble admirer of all living creatures. It was impossible to find someone at Nebraska Audubon Society or Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union meetings who did not know Paul Johnsgard. His more than 100 published books made him known not just in a community of ornithologists, birdwatchers, and bird lovers in the United States but also abroad. He was a world-renowned ornithologist and naturalist who remained deeply embedded in his local culture and its prairie environment.

  We invited about 75 people to write a short memory of Paul. We received about 40 responses, which are published in this book, along with Paul Johnsgard’s own writing on his life. Contributors to this volume include George Archibald, Cherrie Beam-Callaway, Jo D Blessing, Charles Brown, Linda Brown, Jackie Canterbury, John Carlini, Ron Cisar, David Duey, Richard Edwards, Michael Forsberg, Karine Gil, Sue Guild, Twyla Hansen, Chris Helzer, John Janovy, Allison Johnson, Michelle Johnson, Joel Jorgensen, Fujiyo Koizumi, Josef Kren, Thomas Labedz, Kam-Ching Leung, Thomas Mangelsen, Martin Massengale, Julie Masters, Marilyn McNabb, W. Don Nelson, Neal Ratzlaff, Arlys Reitan, James Rosowski, Paul Royster, William Scharf, Rachel Simpson, Tiffany Talbot, Rick Wright, and Christy Yuncker Happ.

  Cover: Paul Johnsgard at Cedar Point Biological Station, July 2006. Photo by Linda Brown

  With 60 color photographs

  ISBN 978-1-60962-289-3 ebook

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1500

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  Ruth Duvall Crawford’s Wonderful Career in Music and Evangelism

  Dan D. Crawford

  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 standard of performance in evangelical circles in the Northeast and Central United States in the 1930s and 40s. In the process of building this musical program, Ruth developed a format and an original style of gospel music that proved to be highly effective in communicating the gospel to a wide audience. Even with the constraints placed upon her as a woman, Ruth was able to carve out her own identity and realize her full potential as a musical artist.

  Throughout their twenty-nine year ministry together, Ruth devoted herself fully and faithfully to Percy’s single-minded mission of winning souls; she and her musicians always viewed the significance of their music as supportive of this soul-saving work. I will argue, however, that, in fact, her music comprised a ministry in its own right, with a message of its own that had the power to change hearts and transform lives. I formulate what I believe was the content of that message— namely, the possibility of drawing close to the person of Jesus, and entering into an intimate relationship with him. Further, I suggest that her message did not merely complement Percy’s and strengthen its appeal, but offered the listener a different way of coming to know Christ as one’s personal savior.

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  Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets

  Countee Cullen , editor

  CONTENTS:

  FOREWORD

  PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR • Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes • Death Song • Life • After the Quarrel • Ships that Pass in the Night • We Wear the Mask • Sympathy • The Debt

  JOSEPH S. COTTER, SR • The Tragedy of Pete • The Way-side Well

  JAMES WELDON JOHNSON • From the German of Uhland • The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face • The Creation • The White Witch • My City

  WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT Du BOIS • A Litany of Atlanta

  WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE • Scintilla • Rye Bread • October XXIX, 1795 • Del Cascar

  JAMES EDWARD MCCALL • The New Negro

  ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE • Hushed by the Hands of Sleep • Greenness • • The Eyes of My Regret • Grass Fingers • Surrender • The Ways o' Men • Tenebris • When the Green Lies Over the Earth • A Mona Lisa • Paradox • Your Hands • I Weep • For the Candle Light • Dusk. • The Puppet Player • A Winter Twilight

  ANNE SPENCER • Neighbors • I Have a Friend • Substitution • Questing • Life-long, Poor Browning • Dunbar • Innocence • Creed • Lines to a Nasturtium • At the Carnival

  MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME • Morning Light • Pansy • Sassafras Tea • Sky Pictures • The Quilt • The Baker's Boy • Wild Roses • Quoits

  JOHN FREDERICK MATHEUS • Requiem

  FENTON JOHNSON • When I Die • Puck Goes to Court • The Marathon Runner •

  JESSIE FAUSET • Words! Words! • Touche • Noblesse Oblige • La Vie C'est la Vie • The Return • Rencontre • Fragment

  ALICE DUNBAR NELSON • Snow in October • Sonnet • I Sit and Sew

  GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON • Service • Hope • The Suppliant • Little Son • Old Black Men • Lethe • Proving • I Want to Die While You Love Me • Recessional • My Little Dreams • What Need Have I for Memory? • When I Am Dead • The Dreams of the Dreamer • The Heart of a Woman

  CLAUDE McKAy • America • Exhortation: Summer, 1919 • Flame-heart • The Wild Goat • Russian Cathedral • Desolate • Absence • My House

  JEAN TOOMER • Reapers • Evening Song • Georgia Dusk • Song of the Son • Cotton Song • Face • November Cotton Flower

  JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR • Rain Music • Supplication • An April Day • The Deserter • And What Shall You Say? • The Band of Gideon

  BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON • The Walls of Jericho • Poem • Revelation • That Hill • To an Icicle • Four Walls

  FRANK HORNE • On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church • To a Persistent Phantom • Letters Found Near a Suicide • Nigger

  LEWIS ALEXANDER • Negro Woman • Africa • Transformation • The Dark Brother • Tanka I-VIII • Japanese Hokku • Day and Night

  STERLING A. BROWN • Odyssey of Big Boy • Maumee Ruth • Long Gone • To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden • Salutamus • Challenge • Return

  CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY • Joy • Solace • Interim • The Mask

  LANGSTON HUGHES • I, Too • Prayer • Song for a Dark Girl • Homesick Blues • Fantasy in Purple • Dream Variation • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Poem • Suicide's Note • Mother to Son • A House in Taos

  GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT • Quatrains • Secret • Advice • To a Dark Girl • Your Songs • Fantasy • Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas • Hatred • Sonnet—l • Sonnet—2

  AnNA BONTEMPS • The Return • A Black Man Talks of Reaping • To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country • Nocturne at Bethesda • Length of Moon • Lancelot • Gethsemane • A Tree Design • Blight • The Day-breakers • Close Your Eyes! • God Give to Men • Homing • Golgotha Is a Mountain

  ALBERT RICE • The Black Madonna • To a Certain Woman

  COUNTEE CULLEN • I Have a Rendezvous with Life • Protest • Yet Do I Marvel • To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning • From the Dark Tower • To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime • Four Epitaphs • Incident

  DONALD JEFFREY HAYES • Inscription • Auf Wiedersehen • Night • Confession • Nocturne • After All • JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS • The Resurrection • The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year • Paean

  GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD • Nativity • Rainy Season Love Song • The Serving Girl • Baby Cobina

  LuCY ARIEL WILLIAMS • Northboun'

  GEORGE LEONARD ALLEN • To Melody • Portrait

  RICHARD BRUCE • Shadow • Cavalier

  WARING CUNEY • The Death Bed • A Triviality • I Think I See Him There • Dust • No Images • The Radical • True Love

  EDWARD S. SILVERA • South Street • Jungle Taste

  HELENE JOHNSON • What Do I Care for Morning • Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem • Summer Matures • Poem • Fulfillment • The Road • Bottled • Magalu

  WESLEY CURTWRIGHT • The Close of Day

  LULA LOWE WEEDEN • Me Alone • Have You Seen It • Robin Red Breast 228 • The Stream • The Little Dandelion • Dance

  INDEX

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  Copper Sun

  Countee Cullen

  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 deeper than the scars you see,

  I keep the roots concealed.

  They shall bear blossoms with the fall;

  I have their word for this,

  Who tend my roots with rains of gall,

  And suns of prejudice.

  Countee Cullen’s poetry is illustrated with 16 decorative cuts created by Charles Cullen (no relation to the poet) in extravagant Art Deco style.

  Contents:

  I. COLOR : FROM THE DARK TOWER • THRENODY FOR A BROWN GIRL • CONFESSION • UNCLE JIM • COLORED BLUES SINGER • COLORS • THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE

  II. THE DEEP IN LOVE : PITY THE DEEP IN LOVE • ONE DAY WE PLAYED A GAME • TIMID LOVER • NOCTURNE • WORDS TO MY LOVE • EN PASSANT • VARIATIONS ON A THEME • A SONG OF SOUR GRAPES • IN MEMORIAM • LAMENT • IF LOVE BE STAUNCH • THE SPARK • SONG OF THE REJECTED LOVER • TO ONE WHO WAS CRUEL • SONNET TO A SCORNFUL LADY • THE LOVE TREE

  III. AT CAMBRIDGE: THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH • THOUGHTS IN A ZOO • TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH • THE POET PUTS HIS HEART TO SCHOOL • LOVE'S WAY • PORTRAIT OF A LOVER • AN OLD STORY • TO LOVERS OF EARTH: FAIR WARNING

  IV. VARIA: IN SPITE OF DEATH • COR CORDIUM • LINES TO MY FATHER • PROTEST • AN EPITAPH • SCANDAL AND GOSSIP • YOUTH SINGS A SONG OF ROSEBUDS • HUNGER • LINES TO OUR ELDERS • THE POET • MORE THAN A FOOL'S SONG • AND WHEN I THINK • ADVICE TO A BEAUTY • ULTIMATUM • LINES WRITTEN IN JERUSALEM • ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA • MILLENNIAL • AT THE WAILING WALL IN JERUSALEM • TO ENDYMION • EPILOGUE

  V. JUVENILIA: OPEN DOOR • DISENCHANTMENT • LEAVES • SONG • THE TOUCH • A POEM ONCE SIGNIFICANT, NOW HAPPILY NOT • UNDER THE MISTLETOE

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  Microbe Hunters

  Paul de Kruif

  Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif was first published in 1926 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. It dramatically recounts the breakthrough discoveries of the fundamental elements of bacteriology. It features exciting profiles of Antony Leeuwenhoek, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Émile Roux, Emil Behring, Élie Metchnikoff, Theobald Smith, David Bruce, Ronald Ross, Battista Grassi, Walter Reed, and Paul Ehrlich. Their development of germ theory and its scientific proofs led to the first effective treatments for human diseases like anthrax, rabies, diptheria, malaria, sleeping sickness, syphilis, and yellow fever. They also made discoveries that saved the dairy, wine, beer, silk, and cattle industries. These determined experimenters proved time and again that tiny living beings only seen by microscope can have huge impacts on human life, and they emphatically demonstrated the value of science for modern civilization. A best seller in its time, the work is an enduring classic that has inspired many scientific careers.

  Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) was an American microbiologist and World War I veteran who turned to writing after his dismissal from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research because of his controversial opinions on current medical practice published in a book of essays. Among his other works, he also assisted Sinclair Lewis with the background of science for the novel Arrowsmith (1925).

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1503

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  An Evolutionary Pathway for Coping with Emerging Infectious Disease

  Scott Lyell Gardner, Daniel R. Brooks, Walter A. Boeger, and Eric P. Hoberg

  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 that crisis response is the best we can do. Real-time and phylogenetic assessments show EIDs to be neither rare nor unpredictable—this is the parasite paradox that shows the failures of the traditional paradigm. The Stockholm Paradigm (SP) resolves the parasite paradox, based on the notion that EIDs are expressions of preexisting capacities of pathogens that colonize susceptible but previously unexposed hosts when environmental perturbations create new opportunities. This makes risk space much larger than thought; moreover, climate change and anthropogenic activities increase the risk of EID. The policy extension of the SP is the DAMA protocol (Document, Assess, Monitor, Act). Preexisting capacities for colonizing new hosts given the opportunity are both specific and phylogenetically conservative, hence, highly predictable. This provides hope that we can prevent at least some EIDs and mitigate the impacts of those we cannot prevent. Novel variants arise only after new hosts are colonized and are thus both likely and unpredictable. This makes the DAMA protocol the essential starting point for a clear pathway for coping effectively with the EID crisis. This volume explores the state of the art with respect to the SP and the DAMA protocol.

  Contributors: Salvatore J. Agosta, Sabrina B. L. Araujo, Walter A. Boeger, Daniel R. Brooks, Jocelyn P. Colella, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Gábor Földvári, Scott L. Gardner, Eric P. Hoberg, Alicia Juarrero, Vitaliy Kharchenko, Marina Knickel, Christine Marizzi, Orsolya Molnár, Eloy Ortíz, Bernd Panassiti, Wolfgang Preiser, Angie T. C. Souza, Éva Szabó, Valeria Trivellone

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  Holocene Rice Rats (Genus Oryzomys) from the Upper Mississippi River Drainage Basin

  Hugh H. Genoways

  The expansion and collapse of the geographic range of the Texas rice rat (Oryzomys texensis) in the upper Mississippi River drainage basin at the end of the Holocene was a unique event in North American mammals. In a period of about 4000 years with a point of origin near the American Bottom in Illinois, these small rodents extended their geographic range in a straight-line distance of over 950 km to the west into Nebraska and the same distance to the east into Pennsylvania. Then in less than 400 years this range expansion collapsed back to a point where the northern-most edge of the modern geographic range of these rice rats is in southern Illinois. It is concluded that no single factor lead to this geographic range expansion, but it was a complex interplay of changes in Native American populations, culture, foodways, riverine habitats, and climate along with the impact of kleptoparasitism and passive anthropochory. The collapse of the expanded geographic range of Texas rice rats appears to have occurred between AD 1400 and AD 1600, but it did not occur simultaneously throughout the geographic range. This was not an orderly range contraction, but a collapse of populations in place with many local extinction events. These rice rat populations declined beginning with the onset of the Little Ice Age, which brought a colder and wetter climate that caused crop failures resulting from droughts, cold temperatures, or shortened growing seasons. These conditions stressed the dietary reserves of the human populations and thereby the rice rat populations. These conditions, particularly droughts, were harmful to the growing of maize, which served as the primary food resource of the Native Americans and the associated populations of rice rats. It is proposed that the pre-1910 records of rice rat from unusual localities compared to the modern geographic range in southwestern Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas represent the final extinction events of these Holocene rice rat populations.

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  Oo-Mah-Ha Ta-Wa-Tha (Omaha City)

  Fannie Reed Giffen, Susette La Flesche Tibbles, and Judi M. gaiashkibos

  “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 Expo­sition and Indian Congress. Its arrival is timely as many of its stories and people are vital to our nation’s history. A sculpture of Omaha Chief Big Elk will stand proudly on the banks of the Missouri as the city of Omaha cel­ebrates its namesake this summer! Susette La Flesche Tibbles is known today for her role in the Trial of Ponca Chief Standing Bear. She is recognized as an activist for Indian rights along with her sister Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American Physician. Their sto­ries were not part of my childhood, yet today these amaz­ing women inspire me.

  The stories of America’s first people are essential to an understanding of our country. More and more, books like this are shining a light on people we need to know. I want to thank Zea Books for making this little jewel of Amer­ican history accessible for more of us to appreciate and enjoy.”

  —From the new Foreword by Judi M. gaiashkibos, Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, Executive Director

  doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1342

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  archy and mehitabel

  Don Marquis

  Archy and Mehitabel are two inimitable characters — a philosophical cockroach who types out free verse correspondence by dive-bombing the keys and an insouciant feline dancer out to take life for all it is worth, ever the lady and “toujours gai.”

  Created by Don Marquis and popularized in the New York Sun and New York Herald-Tribune 1916–1922, their best-loved exploits and musings are captured in this marvellous collection of 48 episodes, and illustrated with 29 cartoon drawings by George Herriman. Archy sees the universe at an entirely different angle, and humanity is measured against its miniature insect reflections. We meet cats and rats, spiders and flies, toads, robins, worms, a merry flea, a dissipated hornet, a froward lady bug, plus ghosts and echoes of dramatists, poets, historical figures, and the nightly denizens of the underworlds and alleys of New York, London, and gay Paris.

  Humorist Don Marquis (1878–1937) was a novelist, poet, columnist, playwright, and author of more than 25 books. Cartoonist George Herriman (1880–1944) is best known as the creator of Krazy Kat.

  doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1343

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  Developing Human Potential: A Personal Approach to Leadership

  Gina S. Matkin, Jason Headrick, and Hannah Sunderman

  This Online Educational Resource textbook is intended to provide an overview and introduction of leadership through the lens of how students can develop and maximize their own interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills are crucial to navigating the professional world and can help us to better understand ourselves. This textbook approaches interpersonal skills from a personal level and allows the reader to immerse themselves into activities and scholarship across topical areas. Through the text, learners can create their own Personal Leadership Philosophy and expand this into a Civic Leadership Philosophy to help them understand the impact leaders can have on their communities and workplaces. This text is freely available per the terms of the Creative Commons copyright.

  About the Editors

  Contributors

  Foreword: History

  Foreword: About the Title

  I. Main Body

  Introduction

  1. How I See Myself

  2. Defining My Personal Values

  3. Defining my Vision & Setting Personal Goals

  4. Communicating with Leadership Congruence

  5. Nonverbal Communication & Active Listening in Small Groups

  6. Developing Trust & Being Trustworthy

  7. Perceptions are Only From My Point of View

  8. Diversity & Inclusion

  9. Meeting the Challenge of Effective Groups & Teams Membership

  10. Engaging with Empathy

  11. Managing Conflict Expectations

  12. Leadership & Civic Engagement: Becoming the Change Maker

  This book was originally conceptualized as a textbook for a class at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln called “Interpersonal Skills for Leadership.” A book by the same name was originally written in 1996, with a second edition published in 2005 by Dr. Susan Fritz and colleagues (Fritz et al., 1996, 2005). Since the text was up for a new edition, we met with Dr. Fritz, who is a strong supporter of Online Educational Resources (as well as all free or low-cost texts for students). Dr. Fritz graciously offered to write a part of the Foreward for this text and offered great feedback and advice (aka, wisdom). Two of the three authors of this chapter have worked with Dr. Fritz for many years as graduate students, as staff, and, eventually, as faculty. We are grateful for her support and mentoring over the years, including with this current project.

  Online E-PUB & PDF https://pressbooks.nebraska.edu/developinghumanpotential/

  
  

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  Observations on a 40-Year January Bird Census in Boone County, Nebraska, 1978–2017

  Wayne Mollhoff

  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 Bird Survey routes with 50 stops, one-half mile (800 meters) apart, all birds counted for 3 minutes, with birds counted at one stop not counted again at following stops. The census route ran from the northwest corner of Boone County, along Beaver Creek, to a point outside Albion. Counts began at local sunrise.

  A total of 73 species were recorded during the 40-year census. This paper records those results and offers observations on patterns of occurrence or absence and changes in frequency.

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  The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Maryland (Coleoptera)

  Dana L. Price and Brett C. Ratcliffe

  This research recognizes 267 species of scarabaeoid beetles occurring in Maryland. We provide a brief overview of the geology, climate, and vegetation of the state. Keys to the families within Scarabaeoidea occurring in Maryland are provided. We also offer an introduction for each family, keys to all taxa, species descriptions, distributions, and distribution maps for all species, months that adults are observed, notes on their natural history, illustrations, and a glossary of terms. Maryland’s species are found in eight families: Lucanidae (7), Passalidae (1), Geotrupidae (17), Trogidae (18), Ochodaeidae (1), Hybosoridae (2), Glaphyridae (1), and Scarabaeidae (220).

  Published as Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Volume 33, Issue Date: 1 March 2023

  340 pages, 7"x10", color illustrations; file size 70 MB

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  Max and the Listening Tree

  Paula Ray and Danny Reneau

  Max is a young man who lives with his grandmother. He is unhappy and upset, so he goes for a walk. His dad is in the army and his mom is a busy nurse. He is at a new school where kids make fun of his name. He wants to fly back to his old home and school. He wishes for someone to talk to. He sits down in the woods and his feelings come pouring out. Suddenly he hears from an old tree about deep roots and things always coming back. It’s his own tree for listening and for coming back. Max begins to feel better, his troubles seem smaller, and he plans to bring his family back to listen. Everyone can find their own listening tree. Or plant one.

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  Tejiendo imágenes. Homenaje a Victòria Solanilla Demestre

  Catalina Simmonds Caldas , Editora and Marina Valls i García , Editora

  A collection of 35 essays in honor of the retirement of Prof. Victòria Solanilla Demestre, a renowned and respected scholar of the pre-Columbian culture and iconography of the Americas.

  SUMARIO — Miquel-Àngel Sànchez i Fèrriz: El porqué de este homenaje a la Dra. Victòria Solanilla Demestre • Catalina Simmonds Caldas: Un pensamiento sin fronteras • Luz Adriana Alzate Gallego: «A lomo de piedra»: rescatando una gran colección lítica • Denise Y. Arnold: Los textiles andinos teñidos por amarras, el motivo del punto en el rombo y su patrón de difusión: Felinos, serpientes y el cultivo del maíz en un mundo en transformación • Luz Helena Ballestas Rincón: La diferencia entre ver y observar. La síntesis en la expresión gráfica precolombina. • Isabel Bargalló y Montserrat Bargalló: Moctezuma entre bambalinas • Alexander Brust, Manuela Fischer y Adriana Muñoz: Las complejidades de colecciones históricas de Latinoamérica en museos europeos: casos de colecciones controvertidas y su seguimiento • Montserrat Camacho Ángeles: La plástica mesoamericana • Uwe Carlson: La imagen divina híbrida en las antiguas culturas del Perú y su iconografía Elisa Cont: La representación de la llama en la iconografía Tiwanaku: nexos con el culto a la fertilidad • Beatriz Devia & Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff • Tradición milenaria de los textiles del norte de Colombia. Enfoque pluridisciplinario • Davide Domenici: Objetos americanos en el Museo delle curiosità naturali, peregrine e antiche del cardenal Flavio I Chigi (1631-1693) • Élodie Dupey García: Texohtli, el azul maya en la cultura náhuatl prehispánica: Su identificación y simbolismo a partir de la Historia universal de Sahagún • Danielle Dupiech Cavaleri y Leydi Dorantes: El despertar de las nuevas generaciones de bordadoras mayas de la península de Yucatán • Mary Frame: Ychsma brocades from the vicinity of Lima in the time of the Incas • János Gyarmati: La colección arqueológica costaricense de Karl Wahle, cónsul honorario de la Monarquía Austrohúngara. Renacimiento de una colección olvidada • Chantal Huckert: Iconografías asociadas al mono araña en las Culturas del Centro de Veracruz • Ana María Llamazares: Seres multidimensionales en el arte precolombino de América del Sur. Una comparación simbólica • Pascal Mongne: El museo desaparecido. Las colecciones del Museo Frissell de Arte Zapoteca de Mitla (Oaxaca, México) • Julia Montoya: La relevancia de Chich’en dentro del contexto regional de Cobán, Alta Verapaz • Natalia Moragas Segura: Tejiendo historias, construyendo vidas: un capítulo teotihuacano • Manuel Alberto Morales Damián: Tejedoras y madres: las mujeres en el Códice Madrid • Paulina Numhauser: Cuando las vendedoras de coca de Potosí fueron las protagonistas de la historia • Patricia Ochoa Castillo: El tlacuache, su simbología y la antigüedad del mito • Carolina Orsini: La botella Balzarotti y la danza de los guerreros moche: breve ensayo iconográfico en honor de Victòria Solanilla • José Luis Pano Gracia: La cerámica ecuatoriana del periodo Formativo. Las culturas Valdivia, Machalilla y Chorrera • Sarai Ramos Muñoz: Las huacas moches y sus relieves pintados • Geydy Rodríguez Wood: Estudio iconográfico y simbólico de objetos del Área Intermedia. Piezas del anexo de Montcada i Reixac del MUEC-Barcelona • Roberto Romero Sandoval: Wahl. El abanico en la cultura Maya • Karim Ruiz Rosell: Las lechuzas en la iconografía Mochica Medio de San José de Moro: el Sacerdote Lechuza • Marisa Sánchez David: Mujeres medicina, las mujeres sabias en el mundo precolombino • Nathalie Santisteban-D.: Los bordados de la indumentaria indígena tradicional andina de Canchis • Mónica Solórzano Gonzales: Tejedores especializados de los Andes del sur del Perú durante el periodo colonial temprano. Los Collaguas de Arequipa y los Lupaca del Altiplano • Teresa Toca: Conservación y restauración de tejidos precolombinos • Cristina Vidal Lorenzo y Esther Parpal Cabanes: El simbolismo en los vestidos de las reinas mayas durante el período Clásico. El caso de la reina Ix Lachan Unen Mo’ de Tikal • Annabel Villalonga: De enredos, tocados y telas: apuntes de litoescultura antropomorfa teotihuacana bajo la óptica de su indumentaria

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  A Speech on The Principles of Social Freedom, delivered in Steinway Hall, Monday, Nov. 20, 1871

  Victoria C. Woodhull and Paul Royster (editor)

  Spiritualist, stockbroker, publisher, activist for women’s suffrage, equal rights, and “free love,” Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 –1927) was the first woman nominated to run for President of the United States. The Principles of Social Freedom was delivered to a packed New York City audience in 1871. It called for a revolution in the legal, social, and sexual situation of women, for their liberation from the “despotic” control of men, and for their social freedom to live and love as they might choose. Mrs. Woodhull based this radical reimagining of social norms on America’s own values of freedom and equality, and she found a historical precedent: “Men do not seem to comprehend that they are now pursuing toward women the same despotic course that King George pursued toward the American colonies.”

  Overtly Christian, optimistic, and forward-looking, Mrs. Woodhull announced the inevitability of political equality between women and men: “Women must rise from their position as ministers to the passions of men to be their equals.” Radically for her era, she called for a social Reconstruction and the sexual freedom of women in and out of marriage, especially their absolute right to control their own reproductive decisions: “I protest against the custom which compels women to give the control of their maternal functions over to anybody.”

  Mrs. Woodhull’s own history gave credence to her picture of women’s conditions. Married at 15 to an abusive alcoholic philandering husband, obliged to support a bankrupt family with two children, she had forged successful careers as speaker, advisor, healer, Wall Street broker, newspaper publisher, and finally as a dynamic political force. At the time of this speech, Mrs. Woodhull was a declared candidate for President. She had recently argued before a Congressional committee that the the 14th and 15th Amendments established women’s right to vote. Earlier that month, in a much publicized incident, she had been turned away from the polls while attempting to vote in the New York election. In this daring lecture she imagines how true legal and political equality of women will ultimately revolutionize sexual politics, and holds out the promise of a world where social freedom and free love are inevitable.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1501

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  Shan Song Xiao / 山松晓

  熙福 著 and Xi Fu

  故事梗概 这本书描写一百年来一家三代女儿的家族故事，从外祖母，母亲，再到女儿，她们生活在有重叠的生活里，又各自有着不同时代不同主旋律的生活轨迹。光阴荏苒，人生匆匆，回首过往，记录生活。 书中的人物以真实人物为原型，作者将真实名字略去，并在故事情节上加以了丰富和构想。 作者：熙福

  ShanSongXiao 'Morning Pine on the Mountain' -- Summary of the story: This book describes the family story of three generations of daughters in a family over the past 100 years. From grandmother, mother, to daughter, they live in overlapping lives, and each has a life trajectory with different themes in different times. Time flies, life is in a hurry, look back on the past and record life. The characters in the book are based on real people. The author has omitted their real names and enriched and imagined the storyline. Author: Xi Fu

  部分读后感： 你的小说语言淳朴，接地气。我非常喜欢你的小说，看过后有很多感想。一代一代的 女性不容易，我们赶上了好时代，要争取自己的权力！~ Alexandra Zhang Harner

  小说写得真好，情真意切，细腻感人。里面的人物，场景，年代，感同身受。要慢 慢读，慢慢想才能真正读懂你的小说。~骥川

  你的小说我又看了一遍，真是停不下来。有历史，有生活，有细节，有情怀。不可埋 没的女作家！希望马上变成 - Best Seller Author！ ~Katie Ge

  作者简介： Jane Li，出生于中国辽宁省沈阳市，现定居美国内布拉斯加州，在林肯大学图书馆工作。 她曾经在2020年出版了她的第一部长篇小说《八天地》。这是Jane Li的第二部长篇小说。

  In Chinese characters.

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  A Long-Term Vision for an Ecologically Sound Platte River

  Andrew J. Caven, Melissa M. Mosier, Kristal Stoner, Bill Taddicken, Brice Krohn, Ashley Gramza, Craig R. Allen, Mike Carter, Michelle Koch, Kirk D. Schroeder, Sarah Bailey, Rich Walters, Brian C. Chaffin, Erica Gnuse, Amy Jones, and Kate Bird

  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, the Platte River Valley also supports a great diversity of avifauna including grassland breeding birds, native stream fish, vascular plants, herpetofauna, mammals, pollinators, and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Despite ongoing conservation efforts since the mid-1970s the ecosystem remains largely conservation dependent and an increasing number of species across taxa are being considered at risk of regional extirpation or outright extinction. However, given the attention provided to conservation in the Platte River Valley and the need to maintain ecologically functional stopover sites in the Central Flyway, there is a great opportunity to create a resilient refugium for biodiversity conservation in the central Great Plains. To that end we convened a working group of >18 individuals representing >9 organizations including representatives from non-profit conservation organizations, universities, and state and federal natural resource agencies to develop a long-term vision for an ecologically sound Platte River Valley (PRV). We met in groups of varying size for >170 hours throughout a more than 3-year period and developed conservation priorities and objectives using a landscape design process. Landscape design is an interdisciplinary conservation planning process that incorporates components of landscape ecology and social dimensions of natural resources with the explicit intention of improving conservation implementation.

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  Landscape-Level Long-Term Biological Research and Monitoring Plan for the Crane Trust

  Andrew J. Caven, Joshua D. Wiese, Bethany L. Ostrom, Kelsey C. King, Jenna M. Malzahn, David M. Baasch, and Brice Krohn

  Our obligation is to make sure we are effectively utilizing science to meet the objectives of the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust (1981) laid out in its charter “to rehabilitate and preserve a portion of the habitat for Whooping Cranes and other migratory birds in the Big Bend reach of the Platte River between Overton and Chapman (i.e., Central Platte River Valley), Nebraska”. The original declaration is aimed at maintaining “the physical, hydrological, and biological integrity of the Big Bend area as a life-support system for the Whooping Crane and other migratory species that utilize it.” It was clear from the institution’s founding that to accomplish this goal it was necessary to study the effectiveness of land conservation and management actions in providing habitat for Whooping Cranes and other migratory bird species. Quality habitat necessarily comprises all the components that Whooping Cranes and other migratory bird life require to complete their migrations –food and shelter– including nutrient rich diet items such as invertebrates, vascular plants, herpetofauna, fish, and small mammals as well as suitable roosting and foraging locations including wide braided rivers and undisturbed wet meadows (Allen 1952; Steenhof et al. 1988; Geluso 2013; Caven et al. 2019, 2021). Article “A” of the Crane Trust’s (1981) declaration is “to establish a written habitat monitoring plan which can be used to describe change in…[habitat] within the Big Bend of the Platte River…utilized by Sandhill Cranes and Whooping Cranes….” Following initial inventories including avian (Hay and Lingle 1982), vegetation (Kolstad 1981; Nagel 1981), small mammals (Springer 1981), herpetofauna (Jones et al. 1981), insects (Ratcliffe 1981), and fish (Cochar and Jenson 1981), a variety of excellent research has continued at the Crane Trust (https://cranetrust.org/conservation-research/publications/). However, despite the clarity of the Trust’s original declaration, long-term habitat monitoring has not progressed unabated throughout the history of the Crane Trust.

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  An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

  Lydia Maria Child and Paul Royster (editor)

  The roots of white supremacy lie in the institution of negro slavery. From the 15th through the 19th century, white Europeans trafficked in abducted and enslaved Africans and justified the practice with excuses that seemed somehow to reconcile the injustice with their professed Christianity. The United States was neither the first nor the last nation to abolish slavery, but its proclaimed principles of freedom and equality were made ironic by the nation’s reluctance to extend recognition to all Americans.

  “Americans” is what Mrs. Child calls those fellow countrymen of African ancestry in 1833; citizenship and equality were what she advocated beyond legal abolition. While Mrs. Child expected the Appeal to offend and alienate a significant portion of her large audience, she wrote “it has been strongly impressed upon my mind that it was a duty to fulfil this task; and earthly considerations should never stifle the voice of conscience.” Thirty years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emanicipation Proclamation, she assembled the evidence for liberation and placed it before a large national audience. Her work helped push national emancipation into the mainstream, and her research supplied a generation of later essayists and pamphleteers with essential background for the continuing debate on the most vital issue in American history.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1316

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  Color

  Countee Cullen

  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. Color (1925), his first published book of poetry, confronts head-on what W.E.B. DuBois called “the problem of the 20th century—the problem of the color line.” The work includes 72 poems, such as the following:

  Incident (For Eric Walrond)

  Once riding in old Baltimore,
  Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
  I saw a Baltimorean
  Keep looking straight at me.

  Now I was eight and very small,
  And he was no whit bigger,
  And so I smiled, but he poked out
  His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

  I saw the whole of Baltimore
  From May until December;
  Of all the things that happened there
  That’s all that I remember.

  Poems include:

  TO YOU WHO READ MY BOOK • YET DO I MARVEL • A SONG OF PRAISE • BROWN BOY TO BROWN GIRL • A BROWN GIRL DEAD • TO A BROWN GIRL • TO A BROWN BOY • BLACK MAGDALENS • ATLANTIC CITY WAITER • NEAR WHITE • TABLEAU • HARLEM WINE • SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS • INCIDENT • TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (SHE CROSSES) • TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (HE CROSSES) • SATURDAY'S CHILD • THE DANCE OF LOVE • PAGAN PRAYER • WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS • TO MY FAIRER BRETHREN • FRUIT OF THE FLOWER • THE SHROUD OF COLOR • HERITAGE

  EPITAPHS: FOR A POET • FOR MY GRANDMOTHER • FOR A CYNIC • FOR A SINGER • FOR A VIRGIN • FOR A LADY I KNOW • FOR A LOVELY LADY • FOR AN ATHEIST • FOR AN EVOLUTIONIST AND HIS OPPONENT • FOR AN ANARCHIST • FOR A MAGICIAN • FOR A PESSIMIST • FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN • FOR A PHILOSOPHER • FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL SINNER • FOR A FOOL • FOR ONE WHO GAYLY SOWED HIS OATS • FOR A SKEPTIC • FOR A FATALIST • FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN • FOR A WANTON • FOR A PREACHER • FOR ONE WHO DIED SINGING OF DEATH • FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY • FOR HAZEL HALL, AMERICAN POET • FOR PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR • FOR JOSEPH CONRAD • FOR MYSELF • ALL THE DEAD

  FOR LOVE'S SAKE: OH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE BE KIND • IF YOU SHOULD GO • TO ONE WHO SAID ME NAY • ADVICE TO YOUTH • CAPRICE • SACRAMENT • BREAD AND WINE • SPRING REMINISCENCE • VARIA: SUICIDE CHANT • SHE OF THE DANCING FEET SINGS • JUDAS ISCARIOT • THE WISE • MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST • DIALOGUE • IN MEMORY OF COL. CHARLES YOUNG • TO MY FRIENDS • GODS • TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRINGTIME • ON GOING • HARSH WORLD THAT LASHEST ME • REQUIESCAM

  DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1336

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  Revised Corporate History of Northern Pacific Railway Company As of June 30, 1917. Centennial Edition Including a Foreword with Later Corporate Changes

  Rollin R. Davis , ed.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1330

  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 been termed “railroadization” (Schumpeter 1939, 1:325-351). Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1965, 9-12) characterized the railroad industry as the first big business in America. The transcontinental railroads were especially significant. A transcontinental railroad may be defined as a railroad whose eastern terminal is east of the Continental Divide and whose western terminal is on the Pacific coast.… This book, Revised Corporate History of the Northern Pacific Railway As of June 30, 1917, Prepared in Accordance With Valuation Order No. 20 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is the official history of the Northern Pacific Railway, and it documents corporate changes from the Northern Pacific’s charter on July 2, 1864, to June 30, 1917. It was prepared in accordance with Valuation Order number 20 of the Interstate Commerce Commission. … In order to complete the history of the Northern Pacific Railway it is necessary to add the corporate changes that occurred from 1917 until its merger into the Burlington Northern in 1970.

  Corporate entities covered include: The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company • The Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company • Northern Pacific Railroad Company • The Stillwater and St. Paul Railroad Company • Northern Pacific Railway Company • The Minneapolis and Duluth Railroad Company • Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company • The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company • Utah and Northern Railway Company • Montana Union Railway Company • Seattle and Walla Walla Rail Road Company • The Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Company • Olympia Railroad Union • The Olympia and Chehalis Valley Railroad Company • Port Townsend Southern Railroad Company • Saint Paul and Northern Pacific Railway Company • Taylors Falls and Lake Superior Rail Road Company • Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad Company • Northern Pacific, Fergus, and Black Hills Railroad Company • Union Depot, Street Railway and Transfer Company of Stillwater • Stillwater Union Depot & Transfer Company • Union Depot & Transfer Company of Stillwater • Saint Cloud, Grantsburg and Ashland Railway Company • The Grantsburg, Rush City and St. Cloud Railroad Company • The Little Falls and Dakota Railroad Company • Mill Creek Flume and Manufacturing Company • The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company • The Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company • Rocky Mountain Railroad Company of Montana • Fargo and Southwestern Railroad Company • The Jamestown & Northern Railroad Company • Montana Railway Company • Sanborn, Coopertown and Turtle Mountain Railroad Company • The Puget Sound Shore Railroad Company • Helena and Jefferson County Railroad Company • James River Valley Railroad Company • Duluth and Manitoba Railway Company • Northern Pacific and Cascade Railroad Company • Northern Pacific and Puget Sound Shore Railroad Company • The Coeur d’Alene Steam Navigation and Transportation Company • Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company • Spokane and Seattle Railway Company • Spokane and Palouse Railway Company • The Oregon and Washington Territory Railroad Company • Puget Sound and Grays Harbor Railroad and Transportation Co. • Helena and Red Mountain Railroad Company • Duluth Short Line Railway Company • The Coeur d’Alene Railway and Navigation Company • Clealum Railroad Company • South-Eastern Dakota Railroad Company • Spokane Falls and Idaho Railroad Company • Helena and Northern Railroad Company • Northern Pacific, LaMoure and Missouri River Railroad Company • Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railway Company • The Missoula and Bitter Root Valley Railroad Company • The Drummond and Philipsburg Railroad Company • Vancouver, Klickitat and Yakima Railroad Company • Seattle and West Coast Railway Company • Canyon Creek Railroad Company • The Central Washington Railroad Company • Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad Company • Washington Short Line Railway Company • The Tacoma, Orting & Southeatern Railroad Company • The Duluth, Crookston and Northern Rail Road Company • The Snohomish, Skykomish and Spokane Railway and Transportation Company • Jamestown and Northern Extension Railroad Company • Seattle Terminal Railway and Elevator Company • Philadelphia Mortgage and Trust Company • Seattle Warehouse and Terminal Company • The Seattle and San Francisco Railway and Navigation Company • Northwestern Improvement Company • Wallace and Sunset Railroad Company • Yakima and Pacific Coast Railroad Company • Tacoma, Olympia and Grays Harbor Railroad Company • Duluth Transfer Railway Company • Duluth Transfer Railroad Company • The United Railroads of Washington • Green River and Northern Railroad Company • Little Falls and Southern Railroad Company • The Portland and Poget Sound Railroad Company • Washington & Oregon Railway Company • Bellingham Bay and Eastern Railroad Company • Everett and Monte Cristo Railway Company • Monte Cristo Railway Company • The Washington and Columbia River Railway Company • Montana Southern Railway Company • Washburn, Bayfield and Iron River Railway Company • Seattle and International Railway Company • Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway Company • Portland, Vancouver and Yakima Railway Company • Seattle and Montana Railroad Company • Western American Company • The Washington Central Railway Company • Clearwater Short Line Railway Company • Washington Railway & Navigation Company • Mill Creek Railroad Company • North Yakima and Valley Railway Company • Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company • Missouri River Railway Company • Western Dakota Railway Company • Big Fork and International Falls Railway Company • The Shields River Valley Railway Company • Toppenish, Simcoe & Western Railway Company • Connell Northern Railway Company • The Camp Creek Railway Company • Cuyuna Northern Railway Company • Cuyuna Dock Company • Missoula and Hamilton Railway Company

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  Hanakatsura: The Works of Famous Literary Women in Japan

  Tei Fujiu (trans.), Kaho Miyake, Ichiyo Higuchi, Usurai Kitada, Otsuka Kusuo, and Paul Royster (ed.)

  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

  Ōtsugomori: The Last Day of the Year, by Ichiyo Higuchi

  Onisenbiki: The Thousand Devils, by Usurai Kitada (Mrs. Kajita)

  Shinobine, by Otsuka Kusuo

  Compiled and translated by Tei Fujiu, four memorable and affecting stories depict women experiencing the frustrations of traditional family roles within an emergent commercial society at the turn of the century. The men seem preoccupied with buying and selling votes, fighting foreign wars, ignoring their families, or going out on the town; and they are fully capable of rejecting a bride for her looks or just letting a new wife walk away. Meanwhile, young female characters cope with overall shabbiness, lost samurai dignity, orphanhood, servitude, poverty, indebtedness, jealous sisters, stepmothers, and mothers-in-law, and the combined challenges of being blind, ugly, alone, and empathetic.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1337

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  Japanese Fairy Tales

  Lafcadio Hearn

  • Chin-Chin Kobakama • The Goblin-Spider • The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings • The Boy Who Drew Cats • The Silly Jelly-Fish • The Hare of Inaba • Shippeitarō • The Matsuyama Mirror • My Lord Bag-o’-Rice • The Serpent with Eight Heads • The Old Man and the Devils • The Tongue-Cut Sparrow • The Wooden Bowl • The Tea-Kettle • Urashima • Green Willow • The Flute • Reflections • The Spring Lover and the Autumn Lover • Momotaro

  The versions of the first four tales in this volume are by Lafcadio Hearn. The others are by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Grace James, Mrs. T. H. James, James Hepburn, and David Thomson. Originally published in 1918 by Boni & Liveright, Inc.

  Cover: Kitagawa Tsukimaro, Urashima Tarô and the Princess Otohime (c.1815)

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  Creole Sketches

  Lafcadio Hearn and Charles Woodward Hutson

  New Orleans in 1878 was the most exotic and cosmopolitan city in North America. An international port, with more than 200,000 inhabitants, it was open to French, Spanish, Mexican, South American, and West Indian cultural influences, and home to a thriving population descended from free African Americans. It was also a battleground in the fight against yellow fever (malaria) and in the political upheavals that followed the end of Reconstruction. The continued influx of Anglo-Americans and the renewed ascendancy of white supremacists threatened to overwhelm the local blend of languages, races, and cultures that enlivened the unique Creole character of the city. Writing for an English-language newspaper, Lafcadio Hearn presented the speech, charm, and humor of the Creolized natives on the other side of Canal Street, and illustrated his sketches with woodcut cartoons — the first of their kind in any Southern paper. These vignettes, published in the New Orleans Daily Item during 1878-1880, capture a traditionalist urban world and its colorful characters with a delicate and sympathetic understanding.

  Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was born on the Ionian island of Lefkada to a Greek mother and British Army father. His parents’ separation and annullment left him, at age 7, the ward of a paternal great-aunt in Dublin. She sent him to Catholic schools in Ireland, France, and England, but family bankruptcy interrupted his education and led to his emigration to America in 1869. His promised contacts proved worthless, and he was left broke and alone in Cincinnati, Ohio. He found work there with the expatriot English printer and socialist Henry Watkin and later as a newspaper reporter for the Daily Enquirer. In 1874 he married Alethea Foley, a 20-year-old African American woman (in violation of Ohio’s anti-miscegenation law). They divorced in 1877, and Hearn moved to New Orleans where he lived ten years and wrote for several newspapers, starting with the Daily Item in June 1878, and later for national publications Harper’s Weekly and Scribner’s Magazine. He went to the West Indies as a correspondent 1887-1890, and then to Japan. He married Koizumi Setsuko in 1891, became a Japanese citizen in 1896, adopting the name Koizumi Yakumo, and taught at high schools and universities. His published books on Japanese culture were instrumental in introducing Meiji Japan to an international audience. He was succeeded as professor of literature at Tokyo Imperial University by Natsume Sōseki.

  Charles Woodward Hutson (1840-1936) was a Confederate veteran, lawyer, painter, author, and professor of Greek and modern languages at Southern colleges.

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  Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

  Lafcadio Hearn and Koizumi Yakumo

  The works of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) played a critical role in introducing his adopted Japan to a worldwide audience. In Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, he writes, “The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, — for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). This word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning, — just as we say in English, ‘the heart of things.’” After centuries of isolation Meiji-era Japan was forced to adjust its customs and beliefs to Western influences, and Hearn reflects on the value of these traditions of the “heart” as seen in Japanese popular justice, arts, economy, patriotism, and religion. Chapters include: At a Railway Station • The Genius of Japanese Civilization • A Street Singer • From a Traveling Diary • The Nun of the Temple of Amida • After the War • Haru • A Glimpse of Tendencies • By Force of Karma • A Conservative • In the Twilight of the Gods • The Idea of Preëxistence • In Cholera-Time • Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship • Kimiko • Three Popular Ballads: The Ballad of Shūntoku-maru • The Ballad of Oguri-Hangwan • The Ballad of O-Shichi, the Daughter of the Yaoya.

  After years of living in Greece, Ireland, France, England, the United States, and the French West Indies, 41-year-old Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) found a home in Meiji Japan, where he married, became a citizen, and took the name Koizumi Yakumo. As a teacher, writer, and correspondent, he was among the first to introduce the culture and literature of Japan to the West.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1313

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  The Vine Street Irregulars: A Chronicle of Graduate Student Life and Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1975–1976

  Michael R. Hill

  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 to the ways of administrative bureaucrats who were sometimes enlightened, sometimes punitive, draconian, and exploitive, or — far more often — simply moribund. As adult students, we wanted fair play and respect. I pursued those goals at Nebraska as: (a) the Geography Department representative to the University Graduate Student Association, (b) as an early vicepresident of the Graduate Student Association, (c) as UNL’s graduate student voting member on the three-campus System Graduate Council, (d) as a voting member on two Vice-Chancellor Search Committees, and finally (e) as the UNL Graduate Student Representative investigating and voting on a fellow graduate student’s formal (and contentious) grade appeal. In these various roles, many students told me stories that made my toes curl. The cumulative result was a hands-on tutorial in bureaucratic/administrative machinations as they ground onward day after day on the Nebraska campuses. Subsequently, writing the essays that became The Vine Street Irregulars gave me a way to explore, in public, the issues, problems, and experiences that bedeviled the lives of far too many graduate students on the University of Nebraska campus during the mid 1970s. Now, nearly fifty years later, this volume preserves some of those struggles and hopefully captures parts of the socio-spatial milieu in which they unfolded. Minor errors and a few awkward phrases have been silently repaired. Where potentially useful, explanatory footnotes are appended.

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  The Pagoda

  Rohan Kōda and Nariyuki Koda

  This novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as “The Five-Story Pagoda,” it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his poverty, low station, and poor reputation—he is known as “the slouch”— Jubei’s determined and uncompromising allegiance to his own vision bring him the possibility of raising a great work for the ages … but will it stand against the howling demons of a tropical typhoon?

  Rohan Kōda’s The Pagoda (Gojūnotō, 五重塔) first appeared in installments in 1891-1892. This first English translation was published in 1909. Sakae Shioya, the translator, was the author of When I Was a Boy in Japan (1906).

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1321

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  Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn

  Setsuko Koizumi, Paul Kiyoshi Hisada, and Frederick Johnson

  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 小泉八雲,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 mostly on the character, habits, and eccentricities of her husband. The book is a heartfelt and intimate portrait of a marriage that brought Lafcadio the home and family he had never before enjoyed. This book shares a charming story of domestic happiness, told by his closest companion, collaborator, and interpreter of life, death, and afterlife in Meiji Japan.

  ISBN 978-1-60962-228-2 ebook

  doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1314

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  Memoirs of the Foreign Legion

  Maurice Magnus and D.H. Lawrence

  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 training in North Africa before a transfer to southern France provided the opportunity to desert and flee back to Italy. The Memoirs recounts his brief disenchanted tenure as a Legionnaire. After his military service his various enterprises had little success, and in 1920 a run of bad checks caused him to skip from Italy to Malta. Traced there eventually by the authorities, he faced extradition for charges of fraud and in desperation committed suicide. His acquaintances Norman Douglas and D. H. Lawrence prepared his Memoirs of the Foreign Legion for publication, hoping to clear the debts he left behind, and Lawrence wrote a long unflattering introduction. In the present volume the Memoirs is printed first, so readers have an unprejudiced experience of the text with Lawrence’s essay following for additional context. Magnus’s narrative contains offensive language. Some passages in his manuscript describing homosexual incidents that were excised by the original publisher are restored in this edition.

  DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1339

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  Nest Records of Nebraska Birds

  Wayne J. Mollhoff

  Nebraska Ornithologists' Union Occasional Paper Number 9

  This publication is an attempt to provide a synopsis of the breeding information accumulated in the past two centuries. As with any compilation like this, other workers would likely come to different conclusions in choosing which records to accept and which to reject. I have tried to state the reasons for my decisions as clearly as possible. Most difficult to categorize are species which are not well documented. Hopefully by laying out the evidence I could find, others will be prompted to do more research, uncover definitive proof, and put more of our questionable reports to rest. Of necessity, this synopsis is incomplete, since there are undoubtedly publications, records, and museum specimens which I have been unable to access, and others of which I am unaware.

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  Reading Contemporary French Literature

  Warren Motte

  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 books. They invite their readers to take a critical stance with regard to those books, and to participate actively in the construction of literary meaning. Both bold and mobile in their own practice, they encourage us to be just as agile in our own readerly practice, offering us a rare degree of franchise in a literary dynamic founded on the notion of articulation.

  Writers discussed include Raymond Queneau, Edmond Jabès, Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Jouet, Marie NDiaye, Marie Cosnay, Bernard Noël, Jean Rolin, Jacques Serena, Julia Deck, and Christine Montalbetti.

  Warren Motte is Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He specializes in contemporary French literature, with particular emphasis on experimentalist works that put accepted ideas of literary form into question. In 2015, the French Republic named him a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms for career service to French culture. His most recent books include Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990 (2003), Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (2008), Mirror Gazing (2014), French Fiction Today (2017), and Pour une littérature critique (2021).

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  Stories

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Roxanne Harde , editor

  Today, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) is best known for a handful of her novels: The Gates Ajar (1868), The Silent Partner (1871), and The Story of Avis (1877). During her life, however, the short story was a hugely popular genre in which she was fully invested and where she made a good deal of her living. Stories were her earliest and latest publications, and they were work that she both enjoyed and employed to greater ends. From 1864 to her death in 1911, she published almost one hundred and fifty short stories in the leading periodicals of the day. This collection makes available some of those stories, an important and engaging part of her oeuvre that previously has been all but ignored. Phelps saw her narratives as vehicles through which she could reform her society, and her artistic and political vision is both original and transformative.

  Sections and stories include:

  1. “A story is a story, however large”: Writing for Children — How June Found Massa Linkum 12 • Bobbit’s Hotel 19 • One Way to Get an Education 24 • The Girl Who Could Not Write a Composition 29 • Mary Elizabeth 36

  2. “A fact which I think Mr. Tennyson has omitted”: Writing under the Influence — The Lady of Shalott 45 • The Christmas of Sir Galahad 54 • The True Story of Guenever 60

  3. “I went, I saw, I conquered”: Rewriting the Church — A Woman’s Pulpit 71 • Saint Caligula 86 • The Reverend Malachi Matthew 94

  4. “The young woman’s account”: Writing Women’s Sexuality — Magdalene 107 • At Bay 118 • Doherty 131

  5. “Thousands of pale women know”: Writing Women and the Civil War — A Sacrifice Consumed 139 • My Refugees 147 • Margaret Bronson 163

  6. “Replace the old brutal heroisms”: Writing Women’s Adventures — Mavourneen 176 • Wrecked in Port 181 • The Chief Operator 189

  7. “Suspecting a Spiritualistic medium”: Writing Spiritualism — What Was the Matter? 202 • The Day of My Death 215 • Since I Died 234 • Told in Trust 238

  8. “A new type of employer”: Writing Social Reform — Blythe 252 • My Story 257 • Not a Pleasant Story 262 • Tammyshanty 273

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  An Adopted Husband [Sono Omokage]

  Futabatei Shimei, Buhachiro Mitsui, and Gregg M. Sinclair

  This novel by Futabatei Shimei (1864–1909) falls squarely within the traditions of Naturalism in literature. Reminiscent of Theordore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie or Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, it presents characters in the grip of forces they cannot resist or control. Tetsuya is a Professor of Economics and Finance who has accepted an adoption-marriage to pay the costs of his education. Now he finds himself miserable with his neglectful wife Toki-ko, and attracted to her illegitimate half-sister Sayo-ko, who cannot help herself from returning his affections. Enmeshed by their emotions, hemmed in by convention, tormented by guilt and remorse, the lovers careen down a tears-laden course of deceit and dissolution. In Meiji Japan, the idealists must bend while the realists flourish and the costs to humanity are measured in suffering and despair.

  
  

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  When I Was a Boy in Japan

  Sakae Shioya

  Japanese children in the 1870s and 1880s were offspring of a centuries-old traditional order who faced a world suddenly dominated by foreign science and commerce. As a child in Meiji Japan, Sakae grew up among survivors of the shogunate and observed their samurai culture displaced by Western morals and practices. Meanwhile the traditional values of Japanese life still exerted a strong influence over his family and education and played a large part in shaping his experience, as recounted with charm and tenderness in this simple and reflective reminiscence.

  Sakae Shioya (1873–1961) attended Tokyo’s First Imperial College and came to the United States in 1901. He earned an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1903 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1906, both in English. He translated works by contemporary Japanese writers, including Rohan Koda and Kenjiro Tokutomi. In addition to this childhood memoir published in 1906, his later works included Chushingura: An Exposition (1940).

  Cover: Toyohara Chikanobu, Mother and Child (1900)

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1324

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  Botchan

  Natsume Sōseke and Yasotaro Morri , trans.

  This English translation of 坊っちゃん (1906) was published in Tokyo by Ogawa Seibundo in 1918. It is a first-person narrative of a young man’s two-month tenure as assistant mathematics teacher at a provincial middle school in 1890s Japan. A native son of Tokyo, with all its traits and prejudices, he finds life in a narrow country town unappealing — with its dull and mischievous students, scheming faculty, bland diets, stifling rules, and gossipy inhabitants. Impulsive, combative, committed to strict ideals of honesty, honor, and justice, he is quickly enmeshed in the strategems of the head teacher, “Red Shirt.” His sufferings and confusion continue to mount until finally he and fellow-teacher “Porcupine” are able to deliver a “heavenly chastisement” and escape the island, back to his one emotional attachment, Kiyo, the old family retainer.

  Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916) signed his work Sōseke — “stubborn.” Like the narrator of Botchan, he was a city-born Tokyo-ite, who found himself teaching middle school in remote Matsuyama in Shikoku in 1895. He emerged to study English literature in London, become Professor at Tokyo Imperial University, and a successful novelist, beginning with the popular I Am a Cat in 1905.

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  Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave

  Natsume Soseki

  Ten Nights’ Dreams (夢十夜, Yume Jūya) is a classic written work from the Japanese master Natsume Soseki. Originally published in 1908, it announced the emergence in Japanese literature of a modernist and impressionistic mode. Short ­vignettes with fantastic, tragic, or magical events convey an exquisite sensibility compounded with stark realism. Love, honor, duty, artistry, desire, despair, and regret all shape events in the dream-world. The stories themselves suggest echoes of meanings beyond the failures of rational sense-making. Ten dreams—each unique and arresting—form a panorama of life and feeling, at once universal and intensely present.

  “Our Cat’s Grave” is a brief but heartfelt monody for a feline companion. Encompassing both the affection and the neglect, it becomes a meditation on empathy and helplessness, and on the transience of life and the persistence of memory.

  Translated By Sankichi Hata and Dofu Shirai. Frontispiece by Shigejiro Sano. Cover illustration by Takehisa Yumeji.

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  I Am a Cat, No. II

  Natsume Sōseki and Kan-Ichi Ando

  What would the neighbors say about you if they didn’t know your cat was listening?

  What if it was “The Cat With No Name”? The one who claims “I have, as a cat, attained the highest pitch of evolution imaginable. … My tail is filled with all sorts of wisdom and, above all, a secret art handed down in the cat family, which teaches how to make fools of mankind. … I am a cat, it is true, but remember I am one who keeps in the house of a scholar who reads the Moral Discourses of Epictetus and bangs the precious tome upon the table. And I claim to be distinguished from my heavy, doltish relations at large.”

  This volume is an English translation of Chapters III and IV of 吾輩は猫である Wagahai-wa neko de aru, which appeared in Japanese in 1902 and eventually ran to 10 installments. In these chapters we find the household of Professor Kushami entangled in the maneuvers of a possible engagement of Mr Kangetsu to Miss Kaneda and reacting with disdain toward businessmen and large noses and other unwelcome Western intrusions in Meiji Japan—all the while peppering their conversation with allusions to European science and literature.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1317

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  A Daughter of the Samurai

  Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

  Born in 1874 the youngest daughter of a samurai and former daimyo—a feudal prince under the Takugawa shogunate—Etsu Inagaki grew up surrounded by ghosts of an aristocratic military lineage. Having fought on the losing side in the wars that installed the Meiji emperor, the ­Inagaki family was reduced in power, status, and wealth but not in pride or ­devotion to its traditional roles and customs. Etsu’s upbringing and education were conservative and old-fashioned, guided by the Shinto and Buddhist beliefs her family held. The samurai virtues of honor, ­stoicism, and sacrifice applied to daughters and wives as well as sons and fathers: “The eyelids of a samurai know not moisture.” Family turmoil, including her father’s death and the return of her prodigal brother, led her on another path—to an English-language mission school in Tokyo and an arranged marriage to a Japanese businessman in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she became mother to two daughters before being widowed and returning with them to Japan. Her story, as she tells it, is: “How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation, became a modern American.” The clash of cultures, the momentous and sometimes hilarious misunderstandings between Japanese and Western ways are revealed in intriguing intimate episodes involving love, duty, and family ties. Living between a semi-mythical past and an emergent ­international present, Mrs. Sugimoto recounts the personal impact of the profound social changes brought about by Japanese-American relations during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and offers an unexpected insider’s view of traditional Japanese samurai family life as it is in the process of being swept away.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1320

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  Vaccinate: Posters from the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Aaron Sutherlen, Judy Diamond, Meghan Leadabrand, Julia McQuillan, and St Patrick Reid

  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 against COVID-19.

  Art can disrupt what is embedded in our minds and open us up to new perspectives and insights. We hope to offer access to images, insights, and knowledge that help people have the freedom to consider their role in the pandemic and the role of vaccines. We hope that experiencing the creativity, humor, and sentiments of artists will encourage those who have avoided the COVID-19 vaccine to reconsider and take advantage of a way to prepare their immune system should they be exposed to the virus. We are thrilled to provide the posters for those who want to enjoy, reflect, and share them with others who are inspired by the power of vaccines and who want to help stop the spread of deadly viruses.

  CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS include: Rachel Claire Balter, Thane Benson, Randy Bish, Katie Bradshaw, Heinzy Cruz, Hector Curriel, Ben Darling, Nicholas Deason, Kerry Eddy, Margaret Elsener, Paul Fell, David L. Felley, Bob Hall, Hayley Jurek, Justin Kemerling, Abbey Krienke, Stephen Lahey, Anna Lindstrom, Malia McCreight, Yihang Meng, Eric Morris, Katie Nieland, Henry Payer, Natalie Pulte, Nikolaus Stevenson, Pawl Tisdale, Janet Walters, William Wells, & Jave Yoshimoto

  DOI:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1334

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  Nami-Ko: A Realistic Novel

  Kenjiro Tokutomi

  Nami-Ko, also called The Cuckoo (不如帰, Hototogisu), is a tragic story of love and devotion, through sickness, war, oppression, and vengeance. Eighteen-year-old Nami Kataoka hoped her marriage to Baron Takeo Kawashima would bring freedom from her overbearing stepmother. But the couple’s happiness is spoiled by her illness, her mother-in-law’s jealousy, and the schemes of Chijiwa, her husband’s cousin and her own disappointed suitor. Takeo’s naval career takes him away for long periods, and when war breaks out between Japan and China (in 1894), his mother takes advantage of his absence to break up the marriage, sending Nami back to her father, the General Kataoka. Despite his love for Nami, Takeo— who is fearless and resolute in facing Chinese naval bombardment—is hesitant and seemingly helpless in the face of his mother’s interference. More than a love story, the novel is a reflection on the systemic oppression of women—even among the wealthy classes—as well as the contrast between traditional samurai values and the emergent commercial interests, and, moreover, the awakening of Japanese nationalism as expressed through military expansion.

  Translated by Sakae Shioya and E. F. Edgett.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1326

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  Signs: Savannah to Key West

  Laura Madeline Wiseman

  Signs: Savannah to Key West documents an 800-mile, 13-day bicycle ride in 2018-2019. It starts fifty miles outside Savannah, Georgia, and follows the Atlantic coastline to Key West, Florida. The trip culminates in Niceville to visit a grandparent, a military veteran and an engineer born in 1924. A bicycle carries a rider through place. The voices of family carry us back and forth through time. The best journeys end with welcome visits with friends, family, and stories, those memories that hold us together, the signs that we belong.

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  Hospital Sketches

  Louisa May Alcott

  In November 1862, Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) signed up as a volunteer nurse for the Sanitary Commission charged with caring for the Civil War’s mounting casualties. From 13 December 1862 until 21 January 1863, Miss Alcott served at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown in the District of Columbia, where she ultimately contracted typhoid and pneumonia and very nearly died. This book is her account of her journey south from Concord and her six weeks in the nation’s wartime capital. Styling herself by the fanciful name “Tribulation Periwinkle,” she brought humor as well as pathos to her subject, making this first-hand account of the absolute horrors of a 19th-century war hospital seem less shocking and more appreciative of the sacrifices being made by the wounded warriors and their families.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1303

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  Illusional Marketing: The Use of Storytelling, User Experience and Gamification in Business

  Adnan Veysel Ertemel

  “This book is a must-have for marketers who need to use a composite set of tools to break through the attention economy. The book is also for the general public who might be concerned about the growing and numbing screen time that takes people away from doing other things.” — Philip Kotler on Illusional Marketing

  Digital platforms know how to “hook” consumers and keep them glued to the screen. These products were developed based on psychologists’ research into the way the human brain works. These are new weapons in the marketing toolkit that will become even more effective when combined with nearfuture enhancements like augmented and virtual reality. As the children of Generation Z and its successor Generation Alpha meet the internet at life’s earliest stages, the likelihood they will develop addictions to such devices seems very high. These illusional marketing techniques offer new weapons for commercial brands; their efficiency has been proven over and over. They give marketing managers powers to alter behavior and to turn inclinations into habits by manipulating the unconscious mind. At this point, marketing professionals need to take significant responsibilities because illusional marketing practices that do not serve a meaningful cause may bring about dangerous outcomes. A system that is only designed for the sake of making more money will serve the interest of no party in the long run, while using the tools of illusional marketing in a positive manner could serve humanity. In our current era, exposing these techniques along with their positive and negative aspects becomes a vital and highly significant task, one best fulfilled by academia.

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  Parasites: The Inside Scoop

  Scott Lyell Gardner, Judy Diamond, Gábor R. Rácz, and Brenda Lee

  Parasites are organisms that live inside or on another species, called the host. Parasites depend on their hosts for food and a place to live. They may harm the host in small or large ways. Parasitism is the most common mode of life on Earth. Humans, other animals, and all plants have parasites, usually two or more kinds. Even parasites can have parasites. There are millions of species of parasites, and scientists discover new ones every day. Parasite specimens are stored in museums all around the world. One of the world’s largest collections is in the H. W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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  Holocene Records of Nebraska Mammals

  Hugh H. Genoways

  A survey of the archeological and paleontological literature allowed a compilation of Holocene records of mammals in Nebraska. This survey identified Holocene records from 338 sites in 62 of the 93 Nebraska counties. These counties were located throughout state, but there was a concentration of sites in southwestern Nebraska where there were 27 fossil sites in Frontier County and 22 in Harlan County. Fossils sites were underrepresented in the Sand Hills region. Records of fossil mammals covered the entire Holocene period from 13,000 years ago until AD 1850. A minimum of 57 species (with eight additional species potentially present) representing six orders of mammals were represented in the compilation—four species of Lagomorpha, four species of Soricomorpha, 17 species of Carnivora (with three additional species potentially present), one species of Perissodactyla, six species of Artiodactyla, and 25 species of Rodentia (with five additional species potentially present). The remains of bison were found at 276 sites, which was more than for any other species in the state. Additional species that formed the main portion of the diet of Native Americans were the next most abundant in the fossil record—deer, pronghorn, and wapiti. That these food species dominated in the Holocene record was to be expected because fossils were recovered primarily from archeological sites.

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  The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792

  Roxanne Harde and Lindsay Yakimyshyn

  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 together legacy texts written by colonial American women and girls: five mother’s legacy books and two legacies by children, organized here chronologically. These legacies were writ­ten in anticipation of dying, making awareness of death central to the texts. All are highly personal, revealing the thought processes and emotive patterns of their authors, and all are meant for the comfort and instruction of the loved ones these dying women and girls were leaving behind. Published between 1664 and 1792, these texts provide insight into early New England culture through to the first years of the republic. Included are: • Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear Children (1664) • Susanna Bell, The Legacy of a Dying Mother to Her Mourning Children (1673) • Sarah Goodhue, The Copy of a Valedictory and Monitory Writing (1681) • Grace Smith, The Dying Mother’s Legacy (1712) • Sarah Demick, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Demick (1792) • Hannah Hill, A Legacy for Children (1714) • Jane Sumner, Warning to Little Children (1792) • Benjamin Colman, A Devout Contemplation on … the Early Death of Pious & Lovely Children (1714) • A Late Letter from a Solicitous Mother To Her Only Son (1746) • Memoirs of Eliza Thornton (1821)

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  The Sandhill Crane State: A Naturalist’s Guide to Nebraska

  Paul Johnsgard

  This book includes the locations, descriptions, and points of biological, historical, geological, or paleontological interest of nearly 350 sites in Nebraska, most of which are free to access. Its 53,000 words include accounts of 9 state historical parks, 8 state parks, 2 national forests, 2 national monuments, and 7 national wildlife refuges as well as 181 wildlife management areas, 56 waterfowl production areas, and 54 state recreation areas. It also includes 48 state and county maps, 18 drawings, 33 photographs, and nearly 200 literature citations.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1305

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  S Is for Sandhill: A Crane Alphabet

  Paul A. Johnsgard

  This is a book of cranes, from A to Z, written and illustrated by the world’s foremost authority on the 15 species of these wonderful and ancient birds. It is a book for all ages, and for all who love and marvel at the beauty, order, and variety of the natural world.

  Cranes exhibit complex behavior, pair-bonding, and fascinating social interactions. They migrate huge distances, crossing continents, oceans, and mountains between their nesting and wintering areas. Seven of the world’s 15 crane species are listed as “vulnerable,” three as “endangered,” one as “critically endangered,” and only three as of “least concern.” Conservation efforts have brought back whooping cranes from the brink of extinction, but the threats to all cranes posed by habitat reduction and climate change are real.

  This is an opportunity to share the wonder of these magnificent birds with young and old, and to appreciate their gift to us all.

  Paul Johnsgard is emeritus professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of roughly 100 books of ornithology and natural history and is a recognized champion of conservation and environmental preservation.

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  An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing. Drawn out of the Quiver of the Scriptures. [1686]

  Increase Mather and Paul Royster , ed.

  "The unchast Touches and Gesticulations used by Dancers, have a palpable tendency to that which is evil."

  When a dancing master arrived in Boston in 1685 and offered lessons and classes for both sexes during times normally reserved for church meetings, the Puritan ministers went to court to suppress the practice. Increase Mather (1639-1723) took the leading part, writing and publishing this tract, which compiles arguments and precedents for the prohibition of “Gynecandrical Dancing, [i.e.] Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women … together.” These justifications were certainly shared with the court, which found the dancing master guilty, fined him £100, and allowed him to skip town.

  Mather’s tract on dancing is an overwhelming compendium of sources and authorities: from the Bible, classical authors, Christian Church Fathers, medieval philosophers, and Reformed theologians both Continental and English. None of them, it appears, approved of mixed dancing—because it leads to adultery and worse. The vilest sins and the direst disasters lie only a short step from the dance floor.

  The Arrow is remarkable for two things (at least): for how much allusion and citation are packed into its brief 30 pages, and for how quickly it escalates the issue into life-or-death scenarios, all vividly painted to emphasize the mortal danger of men and women dancing together.

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1309

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  Pour une littérature critique

  Warren Motte

  Ce livre prend comme objet la littérature critique, c'est-à-dire, des ouvrages conçus dans un esprit critique, qui invitent leurs lectrices et lecteurs—soit de façon ouverte, soit de façon couverte, subtile et nuancée—à s'engager avec la textualité de manière critique. Cette dynamique, suspendue entre production et réception, est hypothétique et fragile; elle est difficile à théoriser de façon satisfaisante; elle est ardue à tracer en se servant d'une stratégie lectorale conventionnelle. Pourtant, c'est précisément ce phénomène articulé et réciproque qui fournit à cette sorte de textualité une mobilité tout à fait rafraîchissante, mobilité qui rend possible la signification littéraire sur un horizon ouvert et largement reconfiguré.

  Warren Motte est professeur de littérature française et de littérature comparée à l'Université du Colorado. Il s'intéresse particulièrement à l'écriture contemporaine, surtout aux formes expérimentalistes qui mettent la tradition littéraire en question. En 2015, la République française l'a nommé Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques. Parmi ses livres, on notera Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990 (2003), Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (2008), Mirror Gazing (2014) et French Fiction Today (2017).

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  Lydie Salvayre, maintenant même

  Warren Motte, Lydie Salvayre, Bernard Wallet, David Lopez, Marie Cosnay, Mahir Guven, and Stéphane Bikialo

  Warren Motte, «Dans le vif du vivant»

  Lydie Salvayre et Warren Motte, «Une conversation avec Lydie Salvayre»

  Lydie Salvayre, «Deux artistes»

  Lydie Salvayre, «Projet en cours»

  Lydie Salvayre, «Quatre photos»

  Bernard Wallet, «Lydie Salvayre, écrivain baroque’n’roll»

  David Lopez, «Almuerz»

  Marie Cosnay, «Diamant brut»

  Mahir Guven, «À propos de Lydie Salvayre»

  Stéphane Bikialo, «Éloge de la fuite»

  «Ouvrages de Lydie Salvayre»

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  Wimmin in the Mass Media

  Terry Nygren and Mary Jo Deegan

  Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition: Wimmin in the Mass Media and Centennial College, Looking Backwards • Mary Jo Deegan

  WIMMIN IN THE MASS MEDIA: Articles Collected at the Centennial Education Program, Fall 1980

  Introduction: Wimmin and the Mass Media — Construction of the Self • Mary Jo Deegan and Terry Nygren

  Examining the Top Ten, or Why Those Songs Make the Charts • Jane Pemberton

  Images of Women in Rock Music: Analysis of B-52’s and Black Rose• Sheila M. Krueger

  Women in Sitcoms: “I Love Lucy”• Nancy Grant-Colson

  Horatio Alger is Alive and Well and Masquerading as a Feminist, or Where Are the Magazines for the Real Working Women? • Teresa Holder

  Freudian Tradition Versus Feminism in Science Fiction • Karen Keller

  Cover design by Becky Ross.

  I hope that reprinting this booklet will serve as a small material document of the educational community many of us enjoyed with this program. It is also a reminder of an era and political attempt to broaden the scope of traditional formats at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Centennial created a short, viable community that is remembered here

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  I Am a Cat

  Natsume Sōseki

  This English version of 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Sōseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke (1867–1916), and translated by Kan-ichi Ando (1878-1924), was published by Hattori Shoten, Tokyo, in 1906.

  It begins: "I am a cat; but as yet I have no name." Its sardonic feline narrator describes his origins, his settlement in the household of a Meiji teacher-intellectual, and the goings-on and conversations among the cats and humans about the neighborhood. Of the men he concludes: "They are miserable creatures in the eyes of a cat."

  Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki studied literature in England and became professor at Tokyo Imperial University. The success of his stories, beginning with "I Am a Cat," launched a successful career that produced 22 novels, including Botchan, Kokoro, and Light and Darkness.

  ISBN 978-1-60962-219-0 ebook

  doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1310

  133 pp.

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  Pickle and Other Condiment Recipes from Backyard Farmer

  Wayne C. Whitney and Sue Ann Gardner

  Compiled by Wayne C. Whitney, Extension Horticulturist University of Nebraska Extension Publication CC-245 (1972) With a new Preface by Sue Ann Gardner Here are the favorite pickle and other condiment recipes submitted by viewers of Backyard Farmer, a television program of the Extension Service, University of Nebraska College of Agriculture. On this program, questions pertaining to the home, yard and garden are answered by specialists in the areas of Horticulture and Forestry, Entomology, Plant Pathology and Agronomy. This publication resulted from an on-the-air request for pickle recipes. Some 536 recipes were received from interested viewers from Nebraska and surrounding states.

  Bread and Butter Pickles

  Chunk Pickles

  Crystal Pickles

  Curry Pickles

  Dill Pickles

  Heinz Pickles

  Lime Pickles

  Mustard Pickles

  Refrigerator Pickles

  Relishes

  Ripe Pickles

  Saccharin Pickles

  Sauerkraut

  Sweet Pickles

  Time Pickles

  Tomato Pickles

  Watermelon Pickles

  Miscellaneous Pickles

  ISBN 978-1-60962-202-2 (ebook)

  DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1301

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  Great River Legs

  Laura Madeline Wiseman

  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.

  In her latest book, Great River Legs, Laura Madeline Wiseman takes you on an intimate journey as she weaves in and out of a cross-country, long distance bike ride. In this beautifully curated book that includes prose poetry, creative non-fiction and found poetry, Wiseman embraces the many parts of herself—cyclist, data collector, meditation practitioner, nature lover, quiet observer—and brings them together in a seamless, profound, and captivating way. – Dawn Mauricio, author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners

  In Great River Legs, Laura Madeline Wiseman measures the weeks in papers graded, classes taught, but also in miles ridden alongside rivers, lengths of the journey called “legs.” The book’s great subject is as much the making of narrative as it is an exploration of geography. Are our stories circular, spinning like wheels on a bicycle? Or do our lives move almost linearly like a waterway flowing across the land? Through small bursts of lyric prose, Wiseman explores the ways “we can begin again,” how we test ourselves on paths that are “steep and dangerous” while learning to accept that we can never “control the day’s rotation.” – Jehanne Dubrow, author of throughsmoke: an essay in notes

  doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1308

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  Safety Measures

  Laura Madeline Wiseman

  Safety Measures documents a solo cross-country bicycle adventure. After completing a ride across the United States in 2017, from Astoria, Oregon, to Yorktown, Virginia, in 60 days, pedaling 4,200 miles with support, Laura Madeline Wiseman endeavored to ride her bicycle, Lexa, across the country alone. This lyric collection in creative nonfiction and prose poetry recounts that journey. From Anacortes, Washington, to Bar Harbor, Maine, this 4,300-mile, 59-day ride begins and ends in Minnesota, the site of Wiseman’s childhood summer vacations at Leach Lake. Biking, fishing, beachcombing, and other experiences with her dad had instilled an adventurous spirit. She hoped to reconnect with the fierce energy of girlhood. Wiseman’s dad had often warned her as a girl, It’s dangerous out there. In Safety Measures, harassment, intimidation, and bullying change lanes with the guardians of the road – sheriffs, semi-drivers, fellow bikers, and companionable travelers who call, Safe travels, as they pass. This journey wonders what measures make the road less dangerous and more safe for the solo-wanderer pedaling a bicycle.

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  The preColumbian Textiles in the Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany

  Lena Bjerregaard

  Along the coast of Peru is one of the driest deserts in the world. Here, under the sand, the ancient Peruvians buried their dead wrapped in gorgeous textiles. As organic material keeps almost forever when stored without humidity, light and oxygen, many of the mummies excavated in the last hundred years are in excellent conditions. And so are the textiles wrapped around them. Their clear colors are still dazzling and the textile fibers in good condition. Textiles were highly valued objects in ancient Peru – used for expressing status and diverse messages in these non-literate but highly organized and very developed cultures. Much energy, innovation and aesthetic sensibility were invested in the textiles. The preColumbian peoples had access to exquisite materials: the local fibers were camelid fibers (alpaca and vicuña), cotton and plant fibers (agave, for instance). The camelid fibers have very little scales compared to sheep fibers, and are long, soft and lustrous. The Peruvian cotton grew in 5 different colors. The ancient Peruvians were also master dyers and have for thousands of years dyed their yarn with indigo blue, madder red, cochineal red, sea snail purple and yellow from many kinds of plants. And so they produced some of the finest, most beautiful and most interesting textiles in the world. Instead of writing, they kept the order in their world encoded in textile fibers. The Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim houses a collection of 405 preColumbian textiles. Most of them are fragments, but a few complete pieces are present. I have chosen 133 pieces for this publication, to represent the collection at its best.