Nebraska Book Award winner: Nonfiction (Autobiography) Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television By Ron Hull Read an excerpt “Possessing a remarkable memory, and with attention to detail, Hull takes us on an intimate pilgrimage. . . . Ron’s … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Backstage
Nebraska Book Award winner: Youth Nonfiction Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days By Nancy Plain “Nancy Plain’s Light on the Prairie . . . places Butcher’s work in its historical and sociological context, and provides a … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Light on the Prairie
Nebraska Book Award winner: Nonfiction (History) Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867 By James E. Potter “A masterful narrative of wartime passions, played out on the battlefields, in the newspapers, and in the territorial … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Standing Firmly by the Flag
Nebraska Book Award winner: Anthology Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on on Loren Eiseley Edited by Tom Lynch and Susan Naramore Maher “Artifacts and Illuminations, the first comprehensive collection of new critical essays about Loren Eiseley’s work, will transform Eiseley … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Artifacts and Illuminations
2012 was a great year and we are proud of all of our authors and their accomplishments. See our previous award winners below:
The History of the Holocaust in Romania
By Jean Ancel
The National Jewish Book Award
Writing Based on Archival Material category
No Word for Welcome
Banzai Babe Ruth
Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
By Robert K. Fitts
IPPY Awards
Silver Medal in the sports/fitness/recreation category
The History of the Holocaust in Romania by Jean Ancel published by UNP and Yad Vashem won the Writing Based on Archival Material category of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. The History of the Holocaust in Romania is a comprehensive analysis of the Holocaust in Romania during World War II. Jean Ancel (1940–2008) was a Romanian-born Israeli independent historian and a research associate of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research. To see the full press release, check out the Jewish Book Council. Congrats to all the winners and finalists! Continue reading 2012 National Jewish Book Award announcement
In case you missed it yesterday, Epistolophilia by Julija Šukys is on the longlist for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. You can see the announcement here. The shortlist for the prize will be announced Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Congrats again, Julija! Continue reading Longlist for the Charles Taylor Prize announced
Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine has announced the finalists for the 2012 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. UNP’s Connie Mack by Norman L. Macht and Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts were among the finalists. The CASEY Award started in 1983 as a way to honor the authors and publishers of outstanding baseball books. See the other CASEY Award finalists here. Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 was one of the UNP’s Spring 2012 season releases. The novel describes a rough period in the life of the Philadelphia Athletics founder and manager, Connie … Continue reading Two finalists from UNP for Best Baseball Book of the Year
The University of Nebraska Press attended the Western History Association’s 52nd annual conference last week in Denver, Colorado. Brian Frehner’s Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 won the Hal K. Rothman Award for the best book in western environmental history and Anne Hyde’s Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (part of UNP’s History of the American West series) won the Caughey Western History Prize for the best book of the year in western history. Congratulations to Brian and Anne! We enjoyed seeing so many of our authors at the conference and are … Continue reading UNP comes away with two awards at WHA
UNP author, Paul Johnsgard, was named the 2012 winner of the Ralph Schreiber Conservation Award from the American Ornithologists’ Union. Read more about the award here. Continue reading Johnsgard wins conservation award
