Welcome back to the work week. I hope you’re enjoying the warm (yet rainy weather), and perhaps have the good fortune of being able to spend the day curled up with a good book. If not, here’s a bit of reading to tide you over.

Remember how on Friday I mentioned that University of Nebraska Press author John Turnbull (The Global Game) would appear on NPR’s Only a Game? Well, he did, on Saturday, and you can listen to him and fellow editor Alon Raab discuss soccer with host Bill Littlefield here.

In other news, UNP author William L. Ramsey has received the 2008 George C. Rogers award for his book, The Yamasee War. The award is presented annually by the South Carolina Historical Society to the author of the best book of South Carolina history published during the preceding calendar year. Ramsey was honored on Saturday during the annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston.

The Yamasee War, by the way, tells the story of the violent conflict between southeastern American Indian tribes and English colonists in South Carolina from 1715 to 1718. In the book, Ramsey argues the war was a pivotal event in the formation of the Old South.