Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist who writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections: the newly released Autumn Song: Essays on Absence (Nebraska, 2023) and All the Colors We … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrice Gopo: Words that Connect Us, Words that Help Us Feel Seen
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. “I am almost finished with Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I picked … Continue reading August Staff Reading List
John Mabry was the sports editor for the Lincoln Journal Star from 1997 to 2007. During that time he helped cover the Husker volleyball team at five NCAA Final Fours. He has written more than five hundred features for the Journal Star and its niche … Continue reading From the Desk of John Mabry: Nebraska Volleyball Day
John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball (Nebraska, 2023) is the perfect book to pick up during the Husker Volleyball season! Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story is the first book … Continue reading Upcoming Events Schedule for John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball
Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor of early modern European history in the Department of History and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: … Continue reading Excerpt: Bad Subjects
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, which established the National Park Service. Today, we celebrate National Park Service Founders Day to recognize the conservation and preservation efforts of the National Parks System covering more than … Continue reading National Park Service Founders Day List
Reviews Small but Important Riots Review in StrategyPage: “This is a remarkable book. Author O’Neill first wrote on this subject, and with this title, thirty years ago. But over the course of the last thirty years, he has continued to … Continue reading News & Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to announce the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2023: Julie Choffel and her manuscript Dear Wallace. “I’m thrilled that Dear Wallace won this prize and honored to work with … Continue reading Announcing the 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry Winner
The April Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education about fascist and antifascist movements in the United States. We seek to learn from past efforts to resist fascist threats and to build more democratic and mutually supportive … Continue reading Confronting the American Eugenics Movement: A Conversation with Julie Carr
R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading From the Desk of R. Eli Paul
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