This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team. The author, drawing upon his experiences as a devoted "Huskerviller" along with an extensive collection of interviews and questionnaires with fellow Husker fans, composes a story that highlights how the culture, history, and geography of Nebraska are intimately embedded in fans' devotion to the Cornhuskers. The book features photographs and an extensive bibliography, while two appendices provide samples of the author's questionnaires and 16 essays written by...

"Popular culture stories--found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies--gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties. Aden offers a well-constructed argument that creating a sense of place (and with it a sense of personal identity and community) serves as an important enticement for many popular cultures works. . . . Aden handles contemporary theory deftly [and] does an excellent job of identifying many of the tensions present in 20th-century America." --"Quarterly Journal of Speech " "Stories encountered at the movies, on television, and in popular magazines are...

The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became the first federal property to feature a slave memorial.
In "Upon the Ruins of Liberty, " Roger Aden offers a compelling account that explores the development of this important historic site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary racial politics....