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| 03/26/2014 |
Great Plains Studies announces Distinguished Book Prize finalistsThe Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska has announced the finalists for this year's Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. The three books selected by a panel of judges are: "Archit… |
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| 04/15/2015 |
Great Plains Studies announces Distinguished Book Prize finalistsThe Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska has announced the finalists for this year's Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. The four books selected by a panel of judges are "American Carnage: Wounded Knee 1890" … |
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| 02/18/2014 |
Great Plains Seminar to cover changing ideas on population growthGreat Plains residents and boosters have often welcomed and promoted population growth in the region. And yet the ideas of British pastor Thomas Malthus -- who famously argued at the turn of the 19th century that population growth … |
02/26/2014 |
| 04/10/2013 |
Great Plains Research, Great Plains Quarterly announce award winnersThe Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska has announced the selection of the following paper as award winners for the 2012 volume year: Leslie Hewes Award for best Social Science paper in Great Plains Res… |
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| 05/1/2006 |
Great Plains Research publishes new studies on water, plants and tradeDuring the recent drought, Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains states have seen decreases in rainfall and groundwater levels. In the spring issue of Great Plains Research, a publication of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University o… |
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| 04/25/2005 |
Great Plains Research publishes new studies on the environmentMammals and their relationship to the environment and evidence of previous droughts in the Plains are discussed in the 2005 spring issue of Great Plains Research, a publication of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Linc… |
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| 10/20/2004 |
Great Plains Research looks at new immigrants in the Great PlainsHow do new immigrants meet the challenges of surviving in the Great Plains? That question and more like it are answered in the fall issue of Great Plains Research, published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln… |
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| 04/24/2007 |
Great Plains Research journal examines flood control, much moreThe October 1998 flooding of the Guadalupe River system in central Texas provided useful lessons to several plains states. The most dramatic was the inability of headwaters flood-control structures to reduce downstream flood damage, when a massive st… |
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| 11/6/2007 |
Great Plains Research examines grassland changes, more, in fall issueSince the late 19th century, human activities have transformed the Great Plains from a primarily temperate grassland to a mix of rangelands, croplands and population centers. While population growth may cause cropland expansion in many regions of the… |
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| 03/22/2012 |
Great Plains Research and Great Plains Quarterly announce annual awardsGreat Plains Research and Great Plains Quarterly, scholarly journals published by the University of Nebraska's Center for Great Plains Studies, have announced the winners of their annual awards for the best articles published durin… |
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| 06/16/2005 |
Great Plains Quarterly publishes new studies on 19th-century eventsThe 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, the 1882 Nebraska woman suffrage campaign and the 1820 Stephen Long Expedition -- highlights of the 19th century -- are featured in the spring issue of Great Plains Quarterly, a publication of the Cente… |
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| 09/15/2004 |
Great Plains Quarterly looks at New Negro movement in MidwestFrom 1914 to 1940, the New Negro arts and letters movement, or Harlem Renaissance, influenced black students at predominantly white Midwestern universities to engage in intellectual pursuits that challenged prevailing myths of blacks' intellectual an… |
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| 04/30/2014 |
Great Plains Quarterly looks at criminal justice in Montana Blackfoot tribesThe spring issue of Great Plains Quarterly is available through the University of Nebraska Press and online via participating university libraries and Project MUSE. In this issue, authors Alvina Pillai and J… |
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| 06/2/2015 |
Great Plains Quarterly examines tough questions on Native genocideCan the atrocities committed against Natives be called genocide? Is what happened to the indigenous people of North America the same as what happened during the Holocaust? James Fenelon, Lakota-Dakota, director of the Center for Indigenous Studies a… |
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| 03/9/2005 |
Great Plains Quarterly commemorates 25 years of publishingWhen Charles A. Braithwaite, editor of Great Plains Quarterly, decided to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln journal, he went to former editors and directors of the Center for Great Plains Studies and asked them to… |
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