We’re excited to see several of our baseball books on Alex Belth’s list of “100 Best Baseball Books” ever written for Esquire magazine. Read the excerpts below to see what they said about each book. The Summer Game by Roger … Continue reading Six UNP Books Featured in Esquire’s Top 100 Baseball Books
Join the University of Nebraska Press’s virtual book launch “Negatives and Voids in Cultural Geography” for the newest addition to the Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth series, Negative Geographies (Nebraska, 2021), on December 13, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. CST … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Book Launch for Geography Series
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces surprise attacked the U.S. naval base, where they destroyed or damaged nearly 20 American naval vessels and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 … Continue reading 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Paul A. Johnsgard, an internationally respected naturalist and UNP author, passed away on May 28, 2021, at the age of eighty-nine. Johnsgard was a professor emeritus of … Continue reading In Memoriam: Paul A. Johnsgard, 1931-2021
Paul Barba is an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University. His book, Country of the Cursed and Driven (Nebraska, 2021), is new this month. Part I Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s–1760s On May 12, 1745, a party … Continue reading Excerpt: Country of the Cursed and Driven
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 finally reading The Breaking of Northwall by Paul O. Williams. It’s … Continue reading November Staff Reading List
Books Look Review in Wall Street Journal: “His lavishly illustrated Look: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America aims not only to rescue the glossy from obscurity but to burnish its reputation for courageous journalism. In the process, … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Keith Ryan Cartwright is a communications specialist for the Rutherford County Board of Education in Tennessee, an adjunct professor at Middle Tennessee State University, and a journalist. He … Continue reading Behind the Book with Keith Ryan Cartwright
Join author Molly P. Rozum alongside guests Shelia McManus and Royden Loewen for the virtual launch of Grasslands Grown, sponsored by the University of Manitoba Press, on Tuesday, November 23 at 7:00 p.m. CST. Register for the event here! In … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Grasslands Grown Virtual Launch
Henrietta Tongkeamha (1912–93) lived and documented her experiences raising a family in southwestern Oklahoma. Raymond Tongkeamha left home in the 1960s and encountered the world beyond southwestern Oklahoma through military service and jobs in Oklahoma City, Dallas, and elsewhere before returning to the … Continue reading Excerpt: Stories from Saddle Mountain
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