The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Reviews Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country Review in H-Environment: “Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country does good work in illustrating the contemporary West in all its nuance through the lens of Stegner, and should have broad, interdisciplinary appeal among historians, literary and cultural studies … Continue reading News & Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of native … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale 2024
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. “This month I’ve been reading Leslie Patten’s Ghostwalker. I didn’t know … Continue reading October Staff Reading List
Reviews The Dreamcatcher in the Wry Review in Publishers Weekly: “It’s in the 20 essays comprising the book’s final third that Midge’s righteous ferocity burns brightest . . . Readers will be dazzled by Midge’s abrasive wit.” The Boy Who … Continue reading News & Reviews
Carol Bradley is the author of Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills (Wiley, 2010) and Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top (St. Martin’s Press, 2014). Her latest book … Continue reading From the Desk of Carol Bradley: On Hollywood Falling Horses
With Halloween fast approaching, we’re excited to get into the spooky season by embracing all things that go bump in the night. If you’re looking for your next scare, we’ve got plenty of vampires, aliens, and other unsettling beings to … Continue reading UNP Books as Classic Halloween Movies
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including The First Migrants (Nebraska, 2023) and Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: Great Plains Homesteaders
Truth is stranger than fiction, as the haunting season begins in earnest, the most unnerving tales are often those that occur in real life. We have curated a list of true crime books that reckon with systemic failings, explore policy-shaping … Continue reading True Crime Books to Read this Fall
ICYMI Dodge County, Incorporated by Sonja Trom Eayrs was featured in a Forbes article: “Big Problems With Big Livestock Farms” Reviews Dodge County, Incorporated Review in Booklist: “It’s a terribly disturbing account that nevertheless offers a glimmer of hope in … Continue reading News & Reviews
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