Good news here at the University of Nebraska Press. In the past few days, we’ve learned that no less than SIX of our titles are up for various awards:

— The Great Plains During World War II by R. Douglas Hurt, and Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West, by Andrea G. Radke-Moss, have been both been selected as finalists for the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.

— Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty by Dan Levitt, Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star by Tom Swift, are two of the three finalists for the Seymour Medal, which the Society for American Baseball Research awards to the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.

— The Wide Open by Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor is a finalist for Foreword’s Book of the Year award in the anthologies category.

— And, finally, Good Neighbors, Bad Times by Mimi Schwartz is also a Foreword Book of the Year contender in the autobiography/memoir category.

We’ll know whether any of our titles actually nab the prizes later this spring, and you can bet there will be another blog post if they do. Congrats to all the finalists!