Pub Date : 2021-07-04DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1303
L. 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.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-03DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1090
Jennifer Cromwell
Ancient Kellis, modern Ismant el-Kharab is located in Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert. The main occupation of the village was from the early to late Roman period (late 1st century to the beginning of the 5th century AD). Excavated as part of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the site has revealed textual and archaeological evidence from which a detailed picture of life can be painted. To date, the main publications of the village’s finds have focussed on the textual remains, of literary and documentary texts in Coptic, Greek, and Syriac.1 A comparable publication of the archaeological evidence from the site is still pending, but the context of the surviving evidence is clear. Many of the documents were found in House 3, left there after the abandonment of the village around the turn of the 5th century, and reflect the concerns of several generations of its residents. One reason for the abundance of textual sources is the volume of written communication between individuals in Kellis and others in the Nile Valley, mostly members of the community who had travelled there for a variety of reasons. This Oasis–Valley duality is fundamental to understanding many of the documents, as well as the realities of life for Kellites. The distinction is made clear through reference to the Oasis (ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ) and the Valley (“Egypt”, ⲕⲏⲙⲉ) and the importance of location will be raised at several points in the following discussion. The Manichaean nature of the community, for which the texts are the primary evidence, has received the greatest amount of scholarly attention to date. Yet, there is vast potential for the examination of a range of topics, especially in conjunction with the surviving material remains. Examination of the domestic textile industry in Kellis holds particular promise. Possible routes of research include: the use of raw material, equipment (including matching the physical with the textual evidence), production techniques, organisation of work, gendered divisions in labour, the economic value and impact of textiles, local and national networks, and the religious use and role of textiles. Given the restricted scope of the current study, my intention is to provide a snapshot into the world of Kellis textiles and to demonstrate the potential for a complete study of textiles at the village. In order to do so, I look at three different areas: • The lexical study of textiles, both in Greek and Coptic. Concerning the latter, the Kellis material makes an important contribution in two respects: it significantly expands the chronologic and geographic range of our Coptic evidence, being among our earliest corpora of Coptic documents and located far from the Nile Valley. • The procurement of raw materials. Wool is used as a case study to highlight the range of evidence available and the different areas of life in the Oasis upon which light is shed. • The economy of textiles and textile production.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1094
F. Sibley, Jan Paseka, R. Beckemeyer
Nebraska had been very poorly surveyed prior to 2005 and 63 counties had fewer than 10 records. By 2017 the number of county records had nearly quadrupled, to over 3000 records, the average county total had increased from 9 to 33 and all counties had at least 21 records. An effort was made to collect data more or less uniformly from all 93 Nebraska counties. The areas with intense corn and soybean farming, eastern and southcentral areas, are low in diversity (2130 species per county), the southeast and western half of the state are higher (31-40 species) and the northwestern and northern Sandhill counties are the richest with more than 50 species per county. The present state list of 109 species represents 12 additions since 1998. Eleven 3 Odonates of Nebraska 2019 additional species have been reported from the state, but are considered invalid or have been re-identified. This paper presents a short history of odonate study in Nebraska and an analysis of the data for the 109 species recorded in Nebraska to date. These species are primarily Eastern (37) or species common in the east but transcontinental in distribution (40). The Midwestern species (11) and Western species (17) account for only 16% of the county records. At the Iowa/Nebraska border and more markedly at the Nebraska/Wyoming border, there is an obvious drop-off in eastern species. Eastern species are common to the middle of the state and then drop off gradually to the Wyoming border and very sharply in Wyoming. Transcontinental species (28) going north of Nebraska show a marked Midwestern gap with some species present in western Iowa and western Nebraska with no records in between. The much smaller number of Transcontinental Southern species (12) include 7 of the 10 commonest species in the state. They show no Midwestern gap but drop off precipitously at the Wyoming border. The 17 western species drop off quickly east of the Panhandle at about the 101st parallel.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.32873/UNL.DC.ZEA.1074
Ellen Stepleton
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Pub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.32873/UNL.DC.ZEA.1070
R. M. Hunt, R. Skolnick, J. Kaufman
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the remote upper reaches of the Niobrara River valley, paleontologists discovered an unbelievable trove of fossil bones eroding from two adjacent hillsides. Under these two “fossil hills” were buried entire skeletons of extinct animals that previously had been known only by fragmentary remains. Over the next two decades, leading museums of the day expended great effort exposing and then extracting whole portions of this bonebed for public exhibition and for research purposes. Many years later, scientists from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln reopened the old quarries to search for clues, long overlooked, that might explain why rhinoceroses, chalicotheres, and entelodonts had perished together millions of years ago at this particular place. In the process, they uncovered carnivore dens unrecognized by the first excavators. Today, the displays at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument lead visitors through the forensic evidence that discloses a sequence of events culminating in the demise of many hundreds of animals. The exhibits at the visitor center also include murals by artist Mark Marcuson and a diorama that uses full skeletal mounts, all illustrating the fascinating story of the Agate bonebed. In addition, the park is situated in a 3,000-acre preserve of shortgrass prairie and tells the story of rancher James Cook, who first noticed the bones in the 1880s, and his friendship with the scientists who came to excavate at Agate. Visitors can follow several trails to view the historic fossil sites, where wayside exhibits explain the paleontological investigations, and reconstruct the landscape of a dryland paleoriver valley and its animals, 22 million to 23 million years ago.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-14DOI: 10.32873/UNL.DC.ZEA.1071
J. Canterbury, P. Johnsgard
This book profiles 60 of the most abundant, characteristic, and interesting birds that have been regularly reported from the Ucross Ranch and the adjacent Powder River Basin. The 20,000-acre Ucross Ranch lies on the western edge of the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming. Ucross is a textbook example of the prairie grassland/shrubland habitat type referred to as the sagebrush steppe, a landscape that is an icon of Wyoming’s vast open spaces. We focus especially on those species that occur year-round or are present as breeders during the summer months, and we place emphasis on a unique group of sagebrush steppe–adapted birds. We provide information on each profiled species’ identification, voice, status, and habitats. “Identification” describes its important visual characteristics (field marks), “voice” provides information on its songs and calls, “status” indicates its relative regional and seasonal abundance, and “habitats and ecology” provides a brief description of its behavior and environmental adaptations. Each species profile also has a calendar of average weekly seasonal occurrence based on long-term regional records. An introductory essay describes the early history of the Ucross Ranch, which is followed by essays on the natural environment and habitats of the ranch, including the characteristic sagebrush steppe and its associated bird species. The 22,000-word text is supplemented with 60 color bird photographs, a map of the vegetation communities in the Great Plains, and a Bird Checklist of the Ucross Ranch.
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{"title":"Accounting for Agent Heterogeneity in Market and Policy Analysis","authors":"K. Giannakas","doi":"10.13014/K2416V8V","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13014/K2416V8V","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213927,"journal":{"name":"Zea Books","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125963516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation in Pedagogy and Technology Symposium: Selected Conference Proceedings","authors":"University of Nebraska Online","doi":"10.13014/k2q23xfd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13014/k2q23xfd","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213927,"journal":{"name":"Zea Books","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130727008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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