Michael K. Johnson is Professor of American literature at the University of Maine at Farmington. His books include Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) as well as two biographies, Can’t … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael K. Johnson: Speculative Visions of the American West
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains (Bison Books, 2022) by Jennifer J. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Birthing the West
Congratulations to the following Nebraska authors who were finalists for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! More than 2,500 entries spread across 55 genres were submitted from University and independent publishers for consideration. The Finalists were determined … Continue reading Announcing the 2023 Foreword Indies Finalists
ICYMI UNP’s new Podcast Behind the Book Awards Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora won the AAAS Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing (Poetry) Award Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Poetry Foundation: “Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s Mine Mine Mine enters not only the South African … Continue reading News & Reviews
Terese Svoboda has published four of her books of fiction with the University of Nebraska Press: the recently released Dog on Fire, Bohemian Girl and the reprints Tin God and Trailer Girl and Other Stories. She has also published a … Continue reading From the Desk of Terese Svoboda: Not Settling
Save 40% off these books in honor of Passover! Enter 6PSP23 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires April 13, 2023 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Continue reading Passover Sale with Jewish Publication Society
Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History at University of the Pacific. She is author of American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (2017) and co-editor of Girlhood: A Global History (2012). … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Helgren: March is the Birthday Month of Camp Fire and Girl Scouts
William C. Kashatus is a historian, educator, and the author of more than twenty books, including Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code (Nebraska, 2017) and Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color … Continue reading From the Desk of William C. Kashatus: Remembering Tim McCarver
Monique McDade is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College. Her book, California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal (Nebraska, 2023), was published this month. California Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American … Continue reading Excerpt: California Dreams and American Contradictions
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (Nebraska, 2022) by Aileen Weintraub. About the Book: A laugh-out-loud memoir about … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Knocked Down
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