The Center sponsors long-term research programs, multidisciplinary journals, and other publications on plains topics. Great Plains Quarterly and Great Plains Research are multidisciplinary journals promoting research and creative scholarship on plains topics.
The Atlas of the Great Plains, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains and the Journals of Lewis & Clark are long-term projects unique to the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Since 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Humanities scholarly journal
The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region.
GPQ
Since 1991
Great Plains Research
Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Great Plains Research publishes original research and scholarly reviews of important advances in the natural and social sciences with relevance to and special emphases on environmental, economic and social issues in the Great Plains. It includes reviews of books and reports on symposia and conferences that included sessions on topics pertaining to the Great Plains.
GPR
Edited by David Wishart
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
The Encyclopedia is a single volume more than 900 pages with:
- twenty-seven major topics
- an interpretive essay introducing each topic
- twenty to sixty shorter, individual entries per topic
- special attention to different experiences by gender, race, and ethnicity
- a detailed index
- many maps and illustrations
Published September 2004.
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With the University of Nebraska Press
Discover the Great Plains series
Discover the Great Plains is a series from the Center for Great Plains Studies published in cooperation with the University of Nebraska Press to provide short books of substance on the natural wonders, diverse cultures, history, and contemporary life of the Great Plains.
Published 2011
Atlas of the Great Plains
The Atlas of the Great Plains serves as a resource for citizens, policy-makers, business-persons, students, teachers, librarians and others both within and beyond the boundaries of the region. It will provide information on the broad patterns and local features of the ten states and three provinces in the Great Plains region.
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Published 2001
The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
The project, under the editorial direction of Gary E. Moulton (left), Thomas C. Sorensen Emeritus Professor of American History and former Associate Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL, was sponsored by the Center from its inception in 1979 until its completion in 2001.
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Other publications
Scholarly works published by the Center in association with the University of Nebraska Press:
- Discover the Great Plains series
- Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer, editors. Atlas of the Great Plains (2011)
- Willa Cather. The Troll Garden. Edited by James Woodress (1983)
- Robert W. Cherny Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915 (1981)
- Virginia Faulkner, and Frederick C. Luebke, editors. Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains (1982)
- Merlin Lawson, and Maurice Baker, editors. The Great Plains: Perspectives and Prospects (1981)
- Frederick C. Luebke, editor. Ethnicity on the Great Plains (1980)
- Brian W. Blouet, and Frederick C. Luebke, editors. The Great Plains: Environment and Culture (1979)
- Paul Schach, editor. Languages in Conflict: Linguistic Acculturation on the Great Plains (1980)
Scholarly works subsidized or assisted by the Center:
- Kaci Nash. The Long Struggle: Standing Bear & the Ponca (2016)
- Tom Lynch, Paul A. Johnsgard, Jack Phillips, editors. Natural Treasures of the Great Plains: An Ecological Perspective (2015)
- John R Wunder, Frances W. Kaye, and Vernon Carstensen, editors. Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience (1998)
- John R Wunder, editor. Law and the Great Plains: Essays on the Legal History of the Heartland (1996)
- Ralph H. Virgil, Frances W. Kaye, and John R. Wunder, editors. Spain and the Plains: Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains (1994)
- Frederick C. Luebke, Frances W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton, editors. Mapping the North American Plains (1987)
- Warren W. Caldwell, C. Bertrand Schultz, and T. Mylan Stout, editors. Man and the Changing Environments in the Great Plains. A special issue of Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science (1983)
- Joan Crane. Willa Cather: A Bibliography (1982)
- Greg Kuzman, editor. Forty Nebraska Poets (1981)
Archival Guides, Inventories, and Surveys published by the Center:
- Alan Nielson, compiler. An Historical Survey of Opera Houses and Legitimate Theaters Built in the State of Nebraska between 1865 and 1917 (1978)
- Janet Warkentin Rife. Germans and German-Russians in Nebraska: A Research Guide to Nebraska Ethnic Studies. Edited by Roger Welsch (1980)
- Joseph Svoboda. Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories (1983)
- Joseph Svoboda and David Dunning. Preliminary Guide to Ethnic Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories (1978)
Previous scholarly journals:
Plains Song Review, founded in 1999 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was an interdisciplinary literary journal that explores a sense of place in the Great Plains through fiction, poetry, nonfiction essays and photographs and graphic literature of emerging and established writers and artists.
Catalogs produced by the Great Plains Art Museum:
- Nebraska Carver Alfred Larson 1866-1963 (1989)
- The Prints of Lyman Byxbe (1991)
- Paintings by Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk, Winnebago Woman Artist (1993)
- The Art of Paul Goble, Author-Illustrator (1995)
- Favorite Forms by Charles M. Russell: Interplay between selected Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings (1996)
- Migrations of the Imagination: Photographs by Michael Forsberg and Drawings, Sculptures, and Quotations by Paul A. Johnsgard and Additional Works of Art (2002)
- Paintings of My People: Paintings by Mark L. Moseman (2004)
- The Canopy Overhead: The Later Years of Dwight Kirsch (2008)
- Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution in the Galápagos Islands and the Great Plains (2009)
- Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 (2022)
Booklets produced by the Center:
- American Encounters: Lewis and Clark, the People, and the Land (1991)
- Norris from Nebraska (1991)
- Willa Cather's University Days: The University of Nebraska, 1890-1895 (1995)
- Bison Poems: Of Bison and the Great Plains (2002)
- Monticello and Jefferson's West: Inaugurating the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003)