How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America
by Andrew L. Yarrow
ISBN: 9781640125100
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-11-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
408 Pages
Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed.
Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis
by Scott D. Seligman
ISBN: 9781640124868
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-10-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
288 Pages
A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried - through legal shenanigans - by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death.
My Front Row Seat to the Demise of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body
by Ben Nelson
Foreword by Trent Lott and Joseph Lieberman
ISBN: 9781640125063
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-09-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
264 Pages
Something is rotten in the U.S. Senate, and the disease has been spreading for some time. But Ben Nelson, former U.S. senator from Nebraska, is not going to let the institution destroy itself without a fight. Death of the Senate is a clear-eyed look inside the Senate chamber and a brutally honest account of the current political reality.
The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America
by Carolyn Cox
ISBN: 9781640124325
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-03-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
384 Pages
Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom kidnappings that occurred in the United States...
by Michael Freeman, Katherine Ellena and Amina Kator-Mubarez
ISBN: 9781640124141
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-02-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
248 Pages
Terrorism motivated by Islamist religious ideology has been on the rise for the last forty years. Why? The three prior waves of terrorism - anarchist, nationalist, and Marxist - arose generally from a combination of geopolitical events and local grievances.
A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America
by Jeff Testerman and Daniel M. Freed
ISBN: 9781640124073
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Pub Date: 2021-02-01
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Potomac Books
488 Pages
When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, the St. Petersburg Times visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.
Gifted Greek is a reflection on twentieth-century Greek history and politics, as well as a character study of its first socialist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou.
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