Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the awesome responsibility of educating a new state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Established as a comprehensive university, uniting the arts and sciences, commerce and agriculture, and open to all regardless of age, sex, color, or nationality, it has as its motto Literis dedicata et omnibus artibus dedicated to letters and all the arts.The University at first was confined to four city blocks and didn t have a building until 1871. Cows grazed the campus. But soon the high aspirations of the state began to be realized....
Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the awesome responsibility of educating a new state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Es...
Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914 55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of letters that shed light on Kees s complex personality. Robert E. Knoll traces the odyssey of a Nebraska boy who made his way in a fiercely competitive national scene, befriending the movers and shakers of the art worlds on both coasts. Kees s letters satirical, witty, poetic, gossipy, intensely individual provide the feel of lives being lived, of a career going forth, and finally, of the darkness that...
Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914 55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains ...
