Heinous crime was not a nightly television show—it was as real as dusk. It lingered in sharp shadows, under neighborhood street lights, between dark suburban houses, in police sketches on milk cartons, in slow vans and cars with tinted windows, … Continue reading Reading List: True Crime
Tyler Alexander is an educator in Vermont who teaches American history and government. He is a former James Madison Fellow and studied forestry, history, and education at the University of Maine and the University of Vermont. One of Alexander’s ancestors served alongside Dan Mason in Company D of the Sixth Vermont. His new book If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War (Potomac Books, 2025) was published in September. At Lee’s Mills: “We crossed the stream amid a shower of leaden hail, part of the time in the water nearly … Continue reading From the Desk of Tyler Alexander: If I Can Get Home This Fall
Airing today on public televisions nationwide (check local listings), streaming on PBS.org and the PBS App, is the new documentary From Rails to Trails based on Peter Harnik’s 2021 book, From Rails to Trails: The Making of America’s Active Transportation … Continue reading New PBS Documentary From Rails to Trails Airs October 15
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! National Book Awards Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation honoring the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Jason Brown is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He has published four books of short stories: A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, Driving the Heart and Other Stories, Why the Devil … Continue reading Excerpt: Character Witness
This year Heartland Fall Forum is in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 14-16, 2025. Heartland Fall Forum is the premiere gathering place for those interested in independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. The event is hosted jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and … Continue reading UNP at Heartland Fall Forum 2025
Reviews Moses Malone Review in Publishers Weekly: “Sportswriter Knepper (The Knicks of the Nineties) gives Moses Malone, the first modern basketball player to jump to the pros straight from high school, his due in this insightful biography.” Abortion in Mexico … Continue reading News & Reviews
Gbenga Adesina, a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the inaugural Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Black and Diasporic Poetry at the Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from New York University, where … Continue reading Excerpt: Death Does Not End at the Sea
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
B.J. Hollars is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail (Bison Books, 2021) and Midwestern … Continue reading From the Desk of B.J. Hollars: When Life Gives You a Climate Crisis, Write About Dinosaurs
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