McNeese Presents History, In-Print and On-Screen

Associate Professor of History Tim McNeese has several projects that will soon be available to the public in a variety of formats.
 
McNeese will have an article published by Faulkner University in the fall issue of Journal of Faith and the Academy as part of a series on faith in literature. The article focuses on morality as presented in selected works of William Shakespeare, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. The publication is based on a paper McNeese presented at the Institute of Faith and the Academy’s annual conference in February.

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In November, the educational publisher InfoBase will release three e-books McNeese recently authored. The book topics will include the American industrial revolution of the early 1800s; the construction of the Panama Canal; and the American naval mission to open Japan to the outside world during the early 1850s.
 
Also in November, an hour-long documentary on the life of General John J. Pershing will air on Nebraska Educational Television (PBS). McNeese appears often in the documentary as an historical expert on Pershing’s early life. Barney McCoy, Emmy award winning filmmaker, produced the documentary as well as a shorter version for NET's "Nebraska Stories" (below) and related radio broadcasts for the NET Radio (NPR), which also featured McNeese and were aired in 2016.  
 
McNeese is the author of over 120 books on history for children, middle-grades, high school, and college readers. Television appearances are nothing new for McNeese, who was featured on the History Channel program “Risk Takers, History Makers” in 2006 and several episodes of “America: Facts Vs. Fiction” on the American Heroes Channel in 2014 and 2016. He has taught at York College since 1992.