December Staff Reading List
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books we gifted to loved ones this holiday season! Continue reading December Staff Reading List
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UNP PAB Member Mark Scherer Exemplifies Commitment to Teaching, Research, and Service
The following was written by Matt Bokovoy, UNP Senior Acquisitions Editor and is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Mark Scherer has spent his twenty-two-year career at the University of Nebraska–Omaha’s Department of History enjoying the … Continue reading UNP PAB Member Mark Scherer Exemplifies Commitment to Teaching, Research, and Service
Excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas
The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing … Continue reading Excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas
Remembering Fred Luebke
Fred Luebke, founding director of the Center for Great Plain Studies at UNL and founding editor of Great Plains Quarterly, passed away on November 27, 2021 at the age of 94. After earning his degree in 1968, he became a … Continue reading Remembering Fred Luebke
From the Desk of Amy Helene Forss: Borrowing from Our Foremothers
Amy Helene Forss serves as Metropolitan Community College’s History Program chair and Social Sciences Department corepresentative in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the author of Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the “Omaha Star” Newspaper, 1938–1989 (Nebraska, 2014). Her newest book, … Continue reading From the Desk of Amy Helene Forss: Borrowing from Our Foremothers
UNP Mourns the Loss of Scholars DeMallie and Parks
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. The University of Nebraska Press lost two of its most renowned scholars this spring with the passing of both Raymond J. DeMallie (October 16, 1946– April 25, … Continue reading UNP Mourns the Loss of Scholars DeMallie and Parks
News & Reviews
Awards What Isn’t Remembered Longlisted for 2022 PEN American Literary Award for the Debut Short Story Collection category! Reviews Let Me Count the Ways Review in Publishers Weekly: “With quotations from medical literature, historical treatises, and poetry threaded in, the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Excerpt: Marianne Is Watching
Deborah Bauer is an associate professor of history at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her book, Marianne Is Watching (Nebraska, 2021), is new this month. Introduction Baroness Lucie von Kaulla was an ambitious young woman from Austrian high society who married, and … Continue reading Excerpt: Marianne Is Watching
Where in the Monster-Fish World Is Mark Spitzer: The End?
Mark Spitzer is an associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America’s Most Misunderstood Fish, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West (Bison … Continue reading Where in the Monster-Fish World Is Mark Spitzer: The End?
UNP Publishes New Book Series: Many Wests
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. The University of Nebraska has long been a leading publisher in the history and culture of the American West and its borderlands. That’s why we are thrilled … Continue reading UNP Publishes New Book Series: Many Wests
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