University Of Nebraska Research Articles

Die Mitte der Reformation. Eine Studie zu Buchdruck und Publizistik im deutschen Sprachgebiet, zu ihren Akteuren und deren Strategien, Inszenierungsund Ausdrucksformen by Thomas Kaufmann, and: Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation by Amy Nelson Burnett

Reviewed by: Die Mitte der Reformation. Eine Studie zu Buchdruck und Publizistik im deutschen Sprachgebiet, zu ihren Akteuren und deren Strategien, Inszenierungsund Ausdrucksformen by Thomas Kaufmann, and: Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation by Amy Nelson Burnett John A. Maxfield Die Mitte der Reformation. Eine Studie zu Buchdruck und Publizistik im deutschen Sprachgebiet, zu ihren Akteuren und deren Strategien, Inszenierungsund Ausdrucksformen. By Thomas Kaufmann. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xx + 846 pp. Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation. By Amy Nelson Burnett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx + 524 pp. Both of these extensive and significant works display the fruits of decades of research by well-established scholars of the German Reformation at the height of productive careers. Each explores the dynamics of book production and its central role in shaping and spreading the religious ideas of (mostly) Protestant reformers in the early sixteenth century. Both books focus on the 1520s as the critical decade wherein the Reformation was shaped through controversy and polemic into a cultural movement that effected sweeping change not only in the church and Christianity but also in European society. Kaufmann is a German church historian (Professor of Church History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) while Burnett is an intellectual and cultural historian at an American state university (Professor of History at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln). These are very different vocational contexts, but both scholars show how rich are the rewards of integrating intellectual, religious, and theological history with interests in the broader cultural impacts of the Reformation. Each study shows that the essentially religious and social movements called the Reformation were shaped by the new technology and industry of moveable-type printing, and that the book culture was itself shaped by Protestant reformers and the religious and social changes they sought to instill in European culture. Kaufmann's book is the broader of the two in its subject matter, exploring the "middle of the Reformation" (with allusion in the preface to previous works published by Mohr Siebeck: Das Ende der [End Page 448] Reformation [2003] and Der Anfang der Reformation [2012]) through the printing industry and its actors, strategies, forms of staging and expression. The book is structured, after a brief introduction, in three very long chapters (the first nearly 200 pages, the others more than 200 pages). The first focuses on the reformers as "book people" (Büchermenschen) and explores such topics as how books were collected and possessed, written about in correspondence among a European intelligentsia under the spell of the Humanist movement, controlled, repressed, burnt and censored. Kaufmann uses the reformer Johannes Oecolampadius as an exemplary "book actor" whose activities are well-documented and who displays the variety of activities Humanist scholars carried out in this era of the universal Renaissance man of the book: author, contributor, editor, lecturer, buyer and reader. Several of Martin Luther's autographs are then used to investigate the process through which a handwritten text becomes a printed book, the author deeply involved often at every step of the process, frequently to his own frustration with "poor" printers or the personal, economic, and sometimes political dynamics of the publishing business. Kaufmann frequently presents and analyzes reproductions of title pages (with their borders and central images), handwritten manuscripts with annotations and marginalia, and book illustrations. The second chapter explores how the printers went through a kind of reformation. While by 1500 some three hundred firms were active in some sixty-five cities, within a few decades several cities (and one small university town) became overwhelmingly dominant in the printing business: Augsburg, Basel, Erfurt, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Strassburg, and Wittenberg. "Printer families" dominated the industry, developing firms that were passed down (and multiplied or expanded) from father to son or sometimes son-in-law: especially noteworthy are the Petri firm in Basel and Nuremberg; the Schott family in Strassburg; the Schöffers in Mainz, Worms, and Strassburg; and the Lotters in Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Magdeburg. In the third chapter Kaufmann investigates the literary and publicity strategies, genres or kinds of texts, and forms of expression that scholars, reformers, and their publishers developed. Academic forms included theses for...

Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War by Linda M. Clemmons

Reviewed by: Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War by Linda M. Clemmons John R. Legg Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War. By Linda M. Clemmons. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019. ix + 249 pp. Notes, works cited, index, photographs. $27.50, paper. For most of the twentieth century, scholars of the US-Dakota War routinely followed a recurring stream of historical inquiry: the sixweek- long conflict in south-central Minnesota, rooted from failed annuity payments and periods of Dakota starvation, wrought havoc and death within white settler communities and ended with Lincoln's order to hang thirtyeight Dakota men—the largest mass execution in US history. The US-Dakota War has since garnered renewed scholarly attention to extend the temporal and geographical meanings and histories of that conflict. Steering away from these traditional studies, Linda M. Clemmons's book, Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War, extends the Dakota War history and experiences of Dakota peoples long after the 1862 hanging in Mankato. By doing so, she enables Dakota voices to "describe the war and its aftermath in their own words" (9). Drawing from an assortment of primary source materials, including missionary accounts, newspaper editorials, correspondences, and military reports, Clemmons traces the life and experiences of Robert Hopkins Çaske, a Christianized Dakota, during and after the 1862 Minnesota conflict as a way to prioritize Dakota perspectives and the competing narratives. Ultimately, Dakota in Exile seeks to challenge the traditional framework of the USDakota War by demonstrating the continuity of power structures which Dakota peoples faced from the nineteenth century to the present. The histories of the Crow Creek Reservation (central South Dakota) and the Camp Kearny Prison Camp (Davenport, Iowa) extend the geographic boundaries of the Dakota War beyond Minnesota. This work joins a corpus of literature that argues that the US-Dakota War was not only a Minnesota war but also a "national war," as Minnesota governor Alexander Ramsey coined it, and encompassed broader objectives of westward expansion and settlercolonial ambitions of replacing Indigenous peoples from the American landscape. Clemmons's book fantastically lays out the life and experiences of Çaske during and after the war, revamping our understanding of it and those who experienced it. In her epilogue, Clemmons uses a few modern instances to show the persistence of systemic violence and power through today. Some critics may question Clemmons's emphasis on Çaske, critiquing his positionality as both Dakota and a converted Christian. However, Clemmons's approach at reading against the grain fills important voids in both US and Dakota historiography. Future research could delve into other actors of the Dakota War, but this book's nuanced argument superbly demonstrates the contested meanings of the Dakota War and recenters Dakota perspectives previously pushed to the periphery. [End Page 329] John R. Legg Department of History Virginia Tech Copyright © 2021 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Changed Forever: American Indian Boarding-School Literature by Arnold Krupat

Reviewed by: Changed Forever: American Indian Boarding-School Literature by Arnold Krupat Sarah Ruffing Robbins Changed Forever: American Indian Boarding-School Literature. By Arnold Krupat. Albany: SUNY Press, 2018. ix + 354 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $29.95, paper. Readers of this journal will be eagerly anticipating the forthcoming second volume in Arnold Krupat's ambitious project, Changed Forever, since that collection will examine Lakota boarding-school life writing. However, the first volume, focusing on the Southwest and, more specifically, life writing by students from the Hopi, Navajo, and Apache communities, already has much to offer studies of Great Plains cultures. For one thing, Plains-based sites such as Haskell receive some treatment here. For instance, Krupat's presentation of material from A Voice in Her Tribe includes coverage of Irene Stewart's days at the Kansas institution after earlier attending Phoenix Indian School. More broadly, Krupat's overview of the genre he dubs "American Indian boarding-school literature" (xxxii), including his framework for interpreting such texts, represents a vital contribution to literary and cultural studies tied to the assimilation movement. In that context, Krupat's introduction presents a thoughtful survey of prior scholarship on the boarding schools. Drawing from primary documents of the boarding-school era itself (such as the 1890 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs), Krupat also synthesizes findings from work by scholars such as Ruth Spack, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, and Brenda Child. He convincingly distinguishes his own contribution from such prior studies in part by characterizing major topical elements in the narrative genre from which his recovery project emerges. These include "topoi" (xxix) such as Clock Time, Discipline, and Naming. In Krupat's skilled approach, these themes produce a roadmap for future readings, including in university classrooms as well as scholarly projects. Additionally, by positioning these topical motifs within specific locations of action (such as the Dining Room and the Dormitory), Krupat spotlights the purposeful exercise of power that white administrators and teachers used in their attempts to suppress Native students' agency. If there is any aspect of this commendable project that might disappoint, it is that, despite Krupat's describing his book as a series of "annotated critical editions," the individual chapters are more a set of summaries-withcommentary than complete primary texts. That said, each narrative's chapter does include a highly informative introduction situating its specific boarding-school account within a particular community context and historical moment. Thus, when seen as a crucial step in an ongoing literary recovery process, both the choice of excerpt-and-summarize as method and Krupat's choice not to push a simplified overarching argument are in line with a view of Native students' active agency as exercised through diverse specific pathways whose record still needs to be assembled via an honoring of multiple Indian voices. [End Page 330] Sarah Ruffing Robbins Department of Literature Texas Christian University Copyright © 2021 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

We will enter Lake Huron only to become, and: Neighborly, and: To Reclaim

We will enter Lake Huron only to become, and: Neighborly, and: To Reclaim Martha Rhodes (bio) We will enter Lake Huron only to become wet and cold; blue our skin, shivering our lips.We’ll expect to disappear since neither canswim well, nor float. Instead, we will appearlarger through water, our thighs unrecognizable thoughon land each cell familiar to us. I’ll reach down to touch bottom with my handsand startle to see blood streaming from my feet,cut by the sharp shells. I will feel nothing.Where else to go to no longer be? Still visible,Matthea will drift farther and farther from me. I’ll remember an old friend’s storyof her farm in Indiana, outside of Bloomington,riddled with sinkholes, her horse escapingits confines and disappearing into one, allbut its ears. But where exactly is her farm? I will wave Matthea back to shore wherewe will dry ourselves with our hands,towelless, not having expected to ever returnto land. We’ll just have to find that farm,she’ll say. We’ll have to find those sinkholes.Do you think we can cram into one?All those horses and cows and goats and maybeyour friend and her barn, disassembled plankby plank, thrown in, no trace of herabove-ground life. We will consider our nearly [End Page 33] dead car. Will it survive the drive to Bloomington?The sinkholes of Provincetown! Matthea will suggest.They are closer and vast—all those desperate fishermendesperately swallowed. Desperation will have long sincedisappeared from our lives, barely remembered— replaced by exhaustion over a bland, content existence,our dullness, our unable-to-be-surprisedtaste buds. How unspectacular we’ve become, Mattheawill often say. Unspectacular to each other, our neighbors,our colleagues. To God, Matthea will proclaim. And suddenly, God will flood our brains. To God, we are not spectacular;we are less than a grain of sand. To God, we have alreadydisappeared. How ashamed we will feel to occupy even onemillimeter of space in this world, to breathe in its air, crush grassand insects underfoot. We will realize, at shore’s edge, that our guilt, if we allow it to, will weigh us down effectivelyand so we will decide to reenter the lake, overflowing we arewith our guilt at our individual and joint insignificance and wewill ask each other’s forgiveness for allowing our lives to becomeso unremarkable as to be unbearable. We will realize that we have disappeared not only to God but to each other. And wewill sink and sink until we do not remember each other’s names.Matthea once said to me, in the mist of our shower, my breastsin her hands, I worry that you might look at me one day and notremember my name. Can you imagine not remembering my name? Not remembering your own name? Disappearing from your own mind? [End Page 34] Neighborly We invited them over, from their fields to ours.To join us naked and playful, to give themhope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands—and witness the greening anew overnight.Our fields. Paid for, no mortgages—To join us in and outside of our tents of celebration,and share our jungles and waterfalls. But when we woke, nothing.Even the tents while we slumberedgone. Our dogs. Our shoes. To Reclaim Our just appointed soldiers follow the Charles from Millis to Needhamin search.We follow them as scouts.Our dogs strewn on the wayside, shot and gutted.A scarf some recognize as their own. No otherclues. I wish to go away from life today,join the dogs’ rotting.Everything hurtling sideways away from and at me. One of us ahead yells, Look!And I peer into a ditch:minutest leavings of stars—stillfuming, skitteringand I know I can begin again.But will I? [End Page 35] Martha Rhodes Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (U of Pitt P). She is the director of Four Way Books. Copyright © 2020 University of Nebraska...

Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West ed. by Gioia Woods

Reviewed by: Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West ed. by Gioia Woods Daniel Worden Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West. Edited by Gioia Woods. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. vii + 432 pp. Illustrations, contributors, index. $34.95, paper. This expansive and provocative collection of essays focuses on how Left politics took shape in western American literature from the Progressive Era to the present. As Gioia Woods notes in the volume's introduction, the literary Left is typically thought to be rooted in the urban centers of the East Coast, and while the leftist politics in the West shared many ideas and even writers with the East, "western leftists developed concerns unique to the region, elevating issues of industrialization and environmental degradation, Native American sovereignty, and immigrant communities' access to power" (3). Woods's introduction usefully contextualizes the history of leftist activism and writing in the West, from figures like Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to the recent struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline. This broad scope is a key contribution of this volume. On the one hand, essays in the book address well-known political texts, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Woody Guthrie's ballads, and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Yet on the other hand, many essays address archives, figures, and texts that broaden and complicate what might count as leftist politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century West. From essays about peace activists in Utah, Ward Moore's speculative fiction, Mari Sandoz's fiction and autobiography, and the environmentalist thinking of Peter Berg, to accounts of poet Jack Spicer's revision of frontier tropes, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti's photographic engagement with bohemian spaces, Deborah Miranda's blend of the personal and the political, and Louise Thompson's unpublished memoirs, the collection arranges a broad array of ideas under the banner of "progressive politics." The essays in the volume tend to be focused on particular archives or texts, and so the overarching connections between the variety and abundance of material in the volume can feel disconnected. Yet that is less of a problem with the volume than evidence of its success in expanding and revising our expectations about what fits under the rubric of leftist politics in western American literature. This edited volume adds to the already well-established scholarship on leftist politics in twentieth-century America, by drawing attention to the unique rapacity of political thinking and writing west of the Mississippi River. [End Page 116] Daniel Worden School of Individualized Study and Department of English Rochester Institute of Technology Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico by David V. Holtby

Reviewed by: Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico by David V. Holtby Joshua E. Kastenberg Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico. By David V. Holtby. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. xi + 548 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95 cloth. The carnage of the "War to End All Wars," or more aptly, World War I, ended over a century ago. Unlike the Civil War sesquicentennial, which resulted in hundreds of books, the century anniversary of the United States' involvement in the first modern global conflict was rather muted. Nonetheless, quality scholarship resulted in studies on the alteration of laws, science, and medicine, as well as economic and social upheaval. And there were a small number of superb localized histories that studied the war's effects on communities. David V. Holtby's' Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico falls into this latter category. Holtby presents a thoroughly researched narrative history that brings several New Mexicans to life, through the haze of a century laden by yet another world war, a depression, and various other political, social, and global conflicts. He notes, in a chapter titled "Sleepwalkers," that "the battlefield's casualties reveal ordinary New Mexicans doing extraordinary things," and then adds that "they deserve to be heard." His book succeeds in doing more than that. New Mexico was one of the two newest states when the US went to war against Imperial Germany and its allies. Its demographics were more than a mirror of the nation. There were citizens who traced their lineage to a period before the Spanish Land Grant of 1692; yet, wide sections of the US would not have viewed them as citizens. Holtby's use of original source material explains the patriotism of, and other reasons for, Hispanic New Mexicans as well as Native Americans joining the armed forces. One only need look at the bibliography to learn of Holtby's use of the personal correspondences and governmental records of the state's participants in the war. He brings to life their experience of basic training, journey to the Western Front, and life (and death) in the trenches. This includes the fact that some of the Nuevomexicano soldiers did not read or write [End Page 245] English and had to rely on fellow soldiers to make it through military life. Holtby also provides insight into the role of women during the war, including the importance of their efforts in promoting the war and gaining employment. Women, it has been written, achieved a foothold in the nation's economy and political life as a result of the war, and Holtby provides evidence that this occurred in New Mexico. Yet he also shows how in a population divided by race, ethnicity, and economy, the roles and advances of each group were hardly uniform, and that Anglos socially benefited more than any other group. If there is one shortcoming in the book, and this shortcoming is minimal, it is that he does not spend enough time on how the military's unique disciplinary system or how the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918 affected the state population. New Mexico was, and is, not New York. Its population in 1917 placed it at the bottom of the list of state populations. And its demographics, though hardly homogenous, were unique to it. Yet any scholar who seeks insight into how a global conflict affects a state population should read this book, for it contributes superbly not only to New Mexico history but also to the history of the nation. Joshua E. Kastenberg School of Law University of New Mexico Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics ed. by Jonathan Alexander, Susan Jarratt, and Nancy Welch

Reviewed by: Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics ed. by Jonathan Alexander, Susan Jarratt, and Nancy Welch Matt Whitaker Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics. Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Susan Jarratt, and Nancy Welch. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ix + 316 pp. Contributors, index. $32.95, paper. Protest has become an increasingly salient part of public life in the Great Plains. The resistance at Standing Rock Reservation, the Keystone XL pipeline protests, the teacher walkouts in Oklahoma—these events warrant the attention of scholars, inviting us to take seriously the use of disruptiveness as a rhetorical tactic and catalyst for social change. Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics, edited by Johnathan Alexander, Susan Jarratt, and Nancy Welch, offers a timely meditation on these very issues, as it seeks to uncover the communicative possibilities of protest at a time when the most strident forms of activism are dismissed as "uncivil." In the introduction, Alexander and Jarratt establish a guiding framework for the book, writing that rhetorical unruliness "marks how speech, action, and bodies coalesce in time and space, enacting the work of politics" in ways that disrupt the flow of everyday life (13). Situating their study at the intersection of continental philosophy and queer rhetorics, the authors draw from the work of Jacques Rancier and Judith Butler, theorizing political action as an embodied rhetorical performance inherent to the order and function of democracy itself. Their approach foregrounds not only written and verbal expressions of dissent but also embodied forms like dancing, marching, singing, and even playing. In these fifteen carefully crafted chapters, readers will find plenty of philosophical wrangling about the nature of protest in a society that has become increasingly hostile toward it, and yet each chapter is grounded in a specific case study. The book, then, reads less like a theoretical treatise and more like a series of snapshots, each revealing a moment in time where activism, politics, and public assembly converge. Organized into three sections on embodiment, civility wars, and the limits and potentials of unruliness, the book surveys various sites of rhetoric-in-action, exploring instances of unrest like the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Arab Spring, and student sit-ins at Syracuse University. Authors of these chapters include notable figures from the field of rhetoric and composition such as John Trimbur, Kevin Mahoney, and Dana Cloud. Some of the book's contents deal directly with Plains-related protests. In chapter 2, "Walking with Relatives: Indigenous Bodies of Protest," Joyce Rain Anderson analyzes the resistance campaign Idle No More, a movement against infrastructural projects like the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. She discusses how the rhetorical tactics of Idle No More bring Native bodies into public consciousness, thereby making visible their precarity in the face of cultural exploitation. Similarly, in chapter 5, "SlutWalk Is Not Enough: Notes Toward a Critical Feminist Rhetoric," Jacqueline Rhodes argues that while SlutWalk, as an act of protest, offers a stinging rebuke to sexism, victim-blaming, and entrenched patriarchal culture, it ultimately fails to bring about an inclusive feminism where intersectional differences are valued and contextualized. Themes of embodiment, civility, and public space extend across the book, animating its various chapters. While most authors take up protests outside the Great Plains, readers should have no trouble extending the book's [End Page 178] insights to those occurring within. Unruly Rhetorics is not only compelling reading, but also vital in understanding how the circulation of critical perspectives depends upon rhetorical disruptiveness. Discussions like these are particularly resonant in today's times when critical perspectives are often constrained by political power and economic privatization, to the detriment of our democracy. [End Page 179] Matt Whitaker English Department University of Nebraska–Lincoln Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities ed. by Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable

Reviewed by: Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities ed. by Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable Elyssa Ford Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities. Edited by Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019. ix + 164 pp. Illustrations, map, table, contributors, index. $32.00, cloth. Texas Women and Ranching is an edited collection that came out of a series of conferences and academic conversations centered on the long role that women have played in the Texas ranching industry. The book brings together scholars and writers from various disciplines, but most are historians from Texas. The introduction explains that it has been difficult in Texas to overcome the continued focus on men, not women, in ranching histories. The masculine nature of much of Texas history is true, and this book does not stand alone in its endeavor. It joins other recent work by Sara Massey, Jane Clements Monday, Carmen Goldthwaite, and Rhonda Lashley Lopez. The nine chapters highlight different women, ranching regions, and times, from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It is a lot to accomplish, and the book would benefit from a thesis or themes to connect the chapters. The introduction divides the women into three categories—elite ranching women, women on smaller ranches, and rodeo women—while the title separates them differently: women on the range, at the rodeo, and in their communities. Despite these various divisions, most chapters examine women on the ranch. One chapter, Renee Laegreid's piece on Kathryn and Nancy Binford, mentions women in rodeo. A few, such as Jack Becker's chapter on Mattie B. Morris, highlight the roles these women held as ranchers within their communities. At times, nonranching community life comes to the fore. This is most prominent in the final chapter where Hollace Ava Weiner presents the life story of Frances Rosenthal Kallison. Kallison's story is a fascinating one of Jewish ranching in San Antonio, but the focus on her nonranching community involvement feels like a missed opportunity to place her experience into the broader context of Jewish ranching life. Most of the chapters are biographical in nature, and they tell us interesting stories about how these women came to own land and to ranch. The most successful are those that move beyond the narrative. In her piece on the fence-cutting wars, Brooke Wibracht effectively shows how two ranching women became active players in protecting their land. Sometimes they used their position as women but often they highlighted their rights as landowners, not women, in their public and private appeals for support. The beautiful cover art, provided by an inductee to the National Cowgirl Museum's Hall of Fame, and the short chapters make this book a quick, appealing read for those interested in women's history and western history. Elyssa Ford Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Northwest Missouri State University Copyright © 2021 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

High Soil Test Phosphorus Effect on Corn Yield

Low corn prices have farmers scrutinizing their nutrient dollar return on investment (ROI). A recent University of Nebraska–Lincoln study examines phosphorus (P) application level ROI in continuous corn over six years. The most cost‐effective method of fertilizer P use proved to be a P‐replacement approach with the P rate equal to the P removed from the previous harvest. The research also found that maintaining soil P availability levels above 25 ppm (Bray‐1) wasn't justified. Earn 0.5 CEUs in Nutrient Management by reading this article and taking the quiz at www.certifiedcropadviser.org/education/classroom/classes/706.

Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power by Tai S. Edwards

Reviewed by: Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power by Tai S. Edwards Jean Dennison Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power. By Tai S. Edwards. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. vii + 199 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper. Tai S. Edwards's Osage Women and Empire is a strong example of reading against the archival grain to challenge common narratives. Her book weaves together core texts in Osage Nation history, including Francis La Flesche, James Dorsey, Willard Rollings, mission registers, expedition reports, and historical journals, to construct a picture of the contributions Osage women made to building and maintaining an empire during the nineteenth century. She argues that Osage women's contributions as creators, that is, through childbirth, farming, and preparing animal hides for clothing, offered them equal status, despite being part of a "warrior" society. She describes this gender complementarity, "where men and women performed typically separate but equally valued tasks" (3), as existing throughout Osage society, including in the "priesthood," as well as spanning hundreds of years and extensive colonial impositions. In addition to her discussions of historical gender roles, Edwards's book also challenges some common stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. Her depiction of an Osage empire as relying on territorial occupation, diplomacy, land cultivation, and trade powerfully challenges [End Page 111] narratives of terra nullius, which continue to prevail in American popular culture and are enshrined in US constitutional law. Furthermore, her discussion of Osages' ability to continuously adapt yet maintain both a core sense of themselves as a people, and a core set of values, is a powerful blow to colonial narratives of erasure and assimilation. While Edwards's book is a compelling read in its narrative cohesion, such a singular account creates an overly simplified narrative of who the Osage were during this period. The work does glean a great deal from the archives, but it relies too much on refuted secondary sources and includes material that needs far more context and analysis. Furthermore, it does not appear to include any oral history with living Osages. Oral histories could have provided Edwards with additional insight not only into a broader set of historical practices and values, but also into contemporary Osage women's dances, which have taken place in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Edwards's book does ultimately contribute to Osage survivance, as she fundamentally demonstrates how colonially imposed "changes did not indicate the elimination of Osage identity or nationhood" (130). Jean Dennison American Indian Studies University of Washington Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Reviewer Acknowledgements

International Journal of Social Science Studies (IJSSS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether IJSSS publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 8, Number 1Agboola O. Paul Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MalaysiaAmany Albert, Beni-Suef University, EgyptAmin Ali Almubar, University of El Imam Al mahdi, SudanAurora Pestaño, University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR), PhilippinesEnzo Loner, University of Trento, ItalyFernando Aragón-Durand, National Autonomous University of Mexico, MexicoJuanita GOICOVICI, University Babeș-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaJulia M. Mack, Gannon University, USAK.O. Aramide, The Polytechnic Ibadan, NigeriaLaura Diaconu Maxim, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza University" of Iasi, RomaniaMei-Ling Lin, National Open University, TaiwanMickey Langlais, University of Nebraska – Kearney, USAMohamed Mehdi Jelassi, IHEC Carthage, TunisiaNadarajah Pushparajah, University of Jaffna, Sri LankaOzgur Demirtas, Inonu University, TurkeyQingzhi Huan, Peking University, ChinaRachita Shrivastava Roy, Department of Higher Education, Chhatisgarh-India, IndiaRiam Elmorshedy, South Valley University, EgyptRonaldo R. Larioque, NUEVA ECIJA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PhilippinesUğur DEMİRCİ, Turkish National Police, TurkeyYanzhe Zhang, Jilin University, China/AustraliaYusramizza Md Isa, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

Amplify Your Impact: Going No-Tech, Low-Tech, and High-Tech: Interactive Library Spaces as Passive Outreach

UNO Libraries supports University of Nebraska at Omaha’s mission to transform and improve the quality of life locally, nationally, and globally through shared values of excellence, engagement, inclusion, discovery, integrity, and university spirit. We do this in part through continuous assessment and development of our learning spaces and environments. We make small changes to ensure our students feel safe, welcome, and at home, and come to see us as a trustworthy, surprising, delightful space. These small changes include developing interactive spaces along a technological continuum so everyone can take ownership of the library in some way.

5 Precision animal welfare for pigs

Abstract Precision animal management (PAM), was a term created by engineers to describe technologies that improve the sustainability of intensive animal production systems. Focused efforts include improving product-efficiency and environmental impact (e.g. robotics in milk production). These PAM technologies have been incorporated in intensive swine production systems (e.g. feeding systems, waste-management). There is a perception that animal welfare efforts reduce efficiency, thus reducing sustainability. This perception is challenged with the development and application of precision animal welfare (PAW) technologies. Examples include: 1) a response system to stimulate sows to stand when they are crushing piglets (Swineguard, Swine Tech, Cedar Rapids, IA); 2) a visual-based automatic tracking system to detect sickness and agonistic interactions at an per-animal level (Schmidt et al., University of Nebraska at Lincoln, NE), and; 3) environmental enrichment (EE) that simultaneously provides mental-stimulation to pigs and automatically collects data (Hulbert et al., K-State, Manhattan, KS). The first two technologies may be applied for improved efficiency, which may not motivate animal caretakers to adopt new housing strategies. Restricted space-allowance limits behavior-expression, and consequently, limits the amount and type of data that can be gained from the technologies. Therefore, more work is needed to apply these technologies on pigs in alternative housing systems (e.g. pens instead of farrowing stalls). Animal welfare improves with EE, but pigs can extinguish EE-use (i.e. boredom) or destroy EE-devices. Non-destructible, stimulating EE were tested on mini-boars. The automated data served a behavioral-biomarker for detecting subclinical injury biomedical research projects. This EE can be scaled-up for commercial pigs and has great potential for improving welfare of pigs in intensive systems while simultaneous providing semi real-time information to animal caretakers at an per-animal level. For swine production, early-adopters and investors are needed to help animal welfare researchers and engineers to transform technologies from PAM into PAW.

Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Brian L. Wilcox.

The APA Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. The 2019 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest is Brian L. Wilcox. Throughout his extensive career, Wilcox "has worked at the intersection of psychology and social policy, making a unique and valuable contribution to advancing both fields, as well as social justice and the public interest. He most recently served as professor and director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Nebraska. Among the many areas in which his work has had a positive impact are child welfare, child poverty, child maltreatment, early childhood education, adolescent risk behavior, the impact of media and divorce on youth, and the prevention of HIV." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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Panel Discussion: Are Reparations Possible? Lessons to the United States from South Africa

Introduction: On September 25, 2019, the Honorable Richard Goldstone joined Dr. Lewis Gordon f or a conversation about reparations at the University of Nebraska at Omaha ( The public discussion was offered as part of a series of events for Human Rights Week. It was co sponsored by the Goldstein Community Chair for Human Rights, the Schwalb Cent er for Israel and Jewish Studies, and the UNO Department of Black Studies. Goldstone and Gordon were brought to the University of Nebraska at Omaha by the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights. The Honorable Richard Goldstone, Dr. Lewis Gordon, Dr. Alecia Anderson (moderator)*

Googly eyes and yard signs: Deconstructing one professor’s successful rebuffing of a right-wing attack on an academic institution

Right-wing populism is on the rise worldwide, and political attacks against universities have increased in the United States since the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, an incident occurred at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln which resulted in accusations of hostility toward conservative students. Just over a year later, political forces again attempted to denigrate the university’s reputation, but this time they did not succeed. This (multimodal) positive discourse analysis/generative critique combines collaborative auto-ethnography to describe the way these events were represented in the media, deconstructing a professor’s methods of countering a right-wing attack on an academic institution. Findings demonstrate the use of multiple strategies such as controlling the narrative through social media savvy; using linguistic strategies such as refutation of strawman fallacies, syntax, deixis and emotional appeal; and use of image.

Cancer Biology and You: An Interactive Learning Event for Native American High School Students to Increase Their Understanding of Cancer Causes, Prevention, and Treatment, and to Foster an Interest in Cancer-Related Careers.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have made a compelling call to action not only to strengthen the pipeline of available STEM-trained talent, but in addition to foster students who are members of populations currently under-represented in science. Furthermore, the scientific community must not only increase the accessibility of STEM-related education, but also implement and test evidence-based practices. Presented here, we detail the proceedings of a hands-on, science-focused informal learning opportunity aimed at educating an underrepresented population in cancer biology. Fifteen undergraduate and graduate student volunteer instructors from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center engaged with 89 high school students, mostly Native American, in an informal learning event called "Cancer Biology and You Day." Throughout the event, students completed two independent lessons focusing on breast cancer and skin cancer and demonstrated strong learning gains associated with the lessons as assessed by KWL charts. Exit surveys of the students indicated high levels of satisfaction with the event, and positive attitudes associated with considering a career in science/research were evident in survey responses. Overall, we report the event as a success and outline how similar experiences may be achieved.

Erratum to: Do Skills Acquired from Training with a Wire Navigation Simulator Transfer to a Mock Operating Room Environment?

BACKGROUND Skills training and simulation play an increasingly important role in orthopaedic surgical education. The intent of simulation is to improve performance in the operating room (OR), a trait known as transfer validity. No prior studies have explored how simulator-based wire navigation training can transfer to higher-level tasks. Additionally, there is a lack of knowledge on the format in which wire navigation training should be deployed. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES (1) Which training methods (didactic content, deliberate practice, or proficiency-based practice) lead to the greatest improvement in performing a wire navigation task? (2) Does a resident's performance using a wire navigation simulator correlate with his or her performance on a higher-level simulation task in a mock OR involving a C-arm, a radiopaque femur model, and a large soft tissue surrogate surrounding the femur? METHODS Fifty-five residents from four different medical centers participated in this study over the course of 2 years. The residents were divided into three groups: traditional training (included first-year residents from the University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic), deliberate practice (included first-year residents from the University of Nebraska and the University of Minnesota), and proficiency training (included first-year residents from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic). Residents in each group received a didactic introduction covering the task of placing a wire to treat an intertrochanteric fracture, and this was considered traditional training. Deliberate practice involved training on a radiation-free simulator that provided specific feedback throughout the practice sessions. Proficiency training used the same simulator to train on specific components of wire navigation, like finding the correct starting point, to proficiency before moving to assessment. The wire navigation simulator uses a camera system to track the wire and provide computer-generated fluoroscopy. After training, task performance was assessed in a mock OR. Residents from each group were assessed in the mock OR based on their use of fluoroscopy, total time, and tip-apex distance. Correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationship between resident performance on the simulator and in the mock OR. RESULTS Residents in the two simulation-based training groups had a lower tip-apex distance than those in the traditional training group (didactic training tip-apex distance: 24 ± 7 mm, 95% CI, 20-27; deliberate practice tip-apex distance: 16 ± 5 mm, 95% CI, 13-19, p = 0.001; proficiency training tip-apex distance: 15 ± 4 mm, 95% CI, 13-18, p < 0.001). Residents in the proficiency training group used more images than those in the other groups (didactic training: 22 ± 12 images, p = 0.041; deliberate practice: 19 ± 8 images; p = 0.012, proficiency training: 31 ± 14 images). In the two simulation-based training groups, resident performance on the simulator, that is, tip-apex distance, image use, and overall time, was correlated with performance in the mock OR (r-square = 0.15 [p = 0.030], 0.61 [p < 0.001], and 0.43 [p < 0.001], respectively). CONCLUSIONS As residency programs are designing their curriculum to train wire navigation skills, emphasis should be placed on providing an environment that allows for deliberate practice with immediate feedback about their performance. Simulators such as the one presented in this study offer a safe environment for residents to learn this key skill. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level II, therapeutic study.

Registration of Great Northern Common Bean Cultivar ‘Panhandle Pride’ with Enhanced Disease Resistance to Bean Rust and Common Bacterial Blight

‘Panhandle Pride’ (Reg. no. CV‐325, PI 691461) great northern common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivar was developed by the dry bean breeding program at the University of Nebraska and released in 2016. It was bred specifically for adaptation to western Nebraska growing conditions and for enhanced resistance to bean rust and common bacterial blight (CBB). Seed yield of Panhandle Pride was comparable to the other cultivars in the on‐station and on‐farm trials conducted in Nebraska and was greater than ‘Orion’ and lower than ‘Matterhorn’ in regional trials. Seed size (100‐seed weight) for Panhandle Pride was larger than Marquis and Beryl‐R in trials grown in Nebraska, and larger than Orion and Matterhorn in regional trials. Panhandle Pride carries the sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers SAP6 and SU91 linked to a major CBB resistance quantitative trait locus, and its reaction to the CBB pathogen under field conditions was consistent across 3 yr at the West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte, NE, with disease ratings of 6.0, 4.3, and 5.2. Panhandle Pride has the Ur‐3 and Ur‐6 genes for resistance to bean rust and carries the SS68 Kompetitive Allele Specific polymerase chain reaction (KASP) and SK14 SCAR markers linked the Ur‐3 bean rust resistance locus. It also carries the single dominant hypersensitive I gene that provides resistance to all non‐necrotic strains of the Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) and the SW13 SCAR marker linked to the I gene for resistance to BCMV. Panhandle Pride has bright white seed, blooms 44 d after planting, and is a midseason bean, maturing 87 d after planting.