Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Lisa Hendrickson Communications and a former corporate and nonprofit public relations director. She has written or edited five books, including Indiana at 200: A Celebration of the Hoosier State and Kiritsis and Me: Enduring 63 Hours at Gunpoint. … Continue reading From the Desk of Lisa Hendrickson: The Joys of Going Down the Rabbit Hole
Erin Flanagan is a professor at Wright State University. She is the author of two short story collections, The Usual Mistakes (Nebraska, 2005) and It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories (Bison Books, 2013). Her book, Deer Season (Nebraska, 2021), is now available. … Continue reading From the Desk of Erin Flanagan: This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For
Two of UNP authors, Brenda Child and Tsianina Lomawaima, recently published opinion pieces on boarding schools in the Washington Post . In Child’s essay, she discusses how United States boarding schools for Indians were used by the government as a … Continue reading UNP Authors Brenda Child, Tsianina Lomawaima in the Washington Post
A new book series celebrating LGBTQ+ literature The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce a new book series that will highlight LGBTQ+ authors. The series, Zero Street Fiction, will invite submissions of novels and short story collections from … Continue reading Announcing Zero Street Fiction
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 just finished Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and … Continue reading August Staff Reading List
Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, passed away on August 20, 2021 at the age of 85. Oates was a Kendall Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Massachusettes-Amherst. In the “Civil War quartet”, one of his best-known works, … Continue reading Remembering Stephen B. Oates
Book Disparates Review in Lit Pub: “If you love the personal essay, or are open to learning to love it, the freewheeling, luminous, disparate Patrick Madden is well worth the time.” Bad Tourist Review in Tahoe Mountain News: “Raw and … Continue reading News and Reviews
Today marks the 200th year anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. On August 24, 1821, eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which approved a plan … Continue reading 200th Year Anniversary of Mexican Independence from Spain
Guy Harrison is an assistant professor of journalism and electronic media at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. His new book, On the Sidelines (Nebraska, 2021), is out this month. I conducted my research on women sportscasters in the U.S. for the better … Continue reading From the Desk of Guy Harrison: Issues Impacting Women Sportscasters
After twenty years, President Biden announced that American troops would be leaving Afghanistan. As the events continue to unfold in Afghanistan, these books from our list shed light on the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan and how it has influenced … Continue reading From the Headlines: Books on the US Involvement in Afghanistan
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