From now until Friday, June 12, save 40% on all baseball books. Not sure where to start? We’ve compiled a list of our latest baseball titles which uncover little-known aspects of America’s favorite pastime. Ford Frick offers a re-evaluation of … Continue reading Reading List: New in Baseball
Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her research focuses on Jewish childhood, rescue, and the long-term impact of genocide. Michlic is author, editor, and coeditor of numerous books, including Poland’s Threatening … Continue reading From the Desk of Joanna Beata Michlic: Rethinking Rescue and Children’s Agency in the Holocaust
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She is the author or editor of twenty books, including Selfish Women and After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Against Affect
This month, the University of Nebraska Press is participating in Give to Lincoln, a community-wide celebration of the nonprofits that help Lincoln learn, grow, imagine, and thrive. Since 1941, UNP has been a distinctive nonprofit publisher committed to the University of Nebraska’s … Continue reading Support the University of Nebraska Press during Give to Lincoln
Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight provides a popular history of spaceflight from the rocket scientists of the 1930s to today, focusing on the lives of astronauts, cosmonauts, technicians, scientists, and their families. These books bring to life experiences … Continue reading Outward Odyssey Authors: Reflections on Artemis II
Reviews They Are Dead and Yet They Live Review in Emerging Civil War: “They Are Dead and Yet They Live extends our understanding of what we consider Civil War Memory, especially in a time in our nation’s history when Americans … Continue reading News & Reviews
Teo Rivera-Dundas is a writer in western Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wassaic Project, Anderson Center at Tower View, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, San Diego. His writing has appeared in Gulf … Continue reading Excerpt: Slow Guillotine
Kerry James Evans is the author of Nine Persimmons (Backwaters Press, 2026) and Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a PhD in English from Florida State University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and a BA in … Continue reading The Ghost in the Orchard: On Nine Persimmons
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “This month I finished reading Slow Guillotine by Teo Rivera-Dundas, which follows … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
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