Join Executive Editor Clark Whitehorn as he invites UNP authors who have known the peculiar, unusual, or spiritual side of the afterlife to share their tales of hauntings, ghosts, or strange phenomena. Join the event on Facebook or visit Francie & … Continue reading A Bison Books Ghost Story (virtual) Campfire on Oct. 27
Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor of history and of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University. They are the author of Neplanta Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift (Nebraska, 2020) and “This Land Was Mexican Once”: … Continue reading Brain Candy from the Desk of Dr. Heidenreich Zuñiga
This week the Nebraska Center for the Book invites you to virtually join the 2020 Celebration of Nebraska Books (October 19-23). In addition to announcing next year’s One Book One Nebraska Selection, the celebration will honor the winners of the … Continue reading #CelebrateNEBooks This Week!
The following is an excerpt from Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard (Bison Books, 2020). From Chapter 2: Mammals Family Vespertilionidae (Vesper Bats) Townsend’s Big-earedBat. Corynorhinus townsendii .HL (NW), Ra Identification: This easily identified pale-brown bat … Continue reading Excerpt: Wildlife of Nebraska
Claire M. Wolnisty is an assistant professor of history at Austin College and the author of A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America (Nebraska, 2020). When I began research in U.S. Civil War Era history, … Continue reading From the Desk of Claire M. Wolnisty: A Different Manifest Destiny
This year the Western History Association annual conference is online! View the full conference program here and take a look at our virtual book exhibit. We are offering our conference discount of 50% off and free shipping until October 31 … Continue reading Western History Association Virtual Book Exhibit
Introducing our fourth virtual book tour, the Haunted West! Who? Boo! Or boo hoo? The bold, experimental, and entertaining books from the University of Nebraska Press have the wonderful and exhilarating ability to haunt the imaginations of their readers long … Continue reading Virtually Bison Books: Haunted West
The American Astronautical Society recently announced the 2020 recipients for the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History, including the University of Nebraska Press for the Outward Odyssey series. The Ordway Award is named in memory of Frederick I. Ordway … Continue reading UNP receives the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History
Richard Piersol is a retired journalist. He was born in Tecumseh, Nebraska, and now lives in Lincoln. He has been an avid reader since childhood of books published by the University of Nebraska Press. Bob Gibson, MLB player from Omaha, Nebraska, passed away … Continue reading Remembering Bob Gibson
Laurie Smith Camp, Nebraska’s senior judge for the United States District Court, passed away on September 23 at the age of 66. Before Smith Camp became the first woman to be appointed as U.S. district judge in Nebraska, she was … Continue reading Remembering Laurie Smith Camp
