The April Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education about fascist and antifascist movements in the United States. We seek to learn from past efforts to resist fascist threats and to build more democratic and mutually supportive … Continue reading Confronting the American Eugenics Movement: A Conversation with Julie Carr
Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, … Continue reading From the Desk of Margaret Jacobs: Reflections on the Supreme Court case, Haaland v. Brackeen
ICYMI Daybreak at Chavez Ravine in People’s Magazine Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Land & Climate Review: “In Mine Mine Mine, the sanctity of the body, love, and family all suffer a perverse inversion for the sake of mining a wealth from … Continue reading News & Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall will be published May 1, 2024. In Berlin, the past … Continue reading Announcing the second book in the Zero Street Fiction series
ICYMI Continental Reckoning on CPSAN-2 Reviews The Time Left Between Us Review in Broad Street Review: “The Time Left Between Us is a gripping new book by local author Alicia DeFonzo who documents her grandfather’s journey serving in World War II, … Continue reading News & Reviews
To help spread the word about new UNP books, our publicity team launched the UNP Influencer Partnership earlier this year. As part of the partnership, influencers can request and receive galleys (physical or e-book) or finished books of their choice. … Continue reading UNP Influencer Partnership: Fall/Winter 2023 titles now available
Reviews Oracle of Lost Causes Review in Publisher’s Weekly: “In this detailed yet disjointed account, historian Hulbert (Martial Culture, Silver Screen) profiles John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), a Missouri Confederate and editorial writer who rose to ‘B-list celebrity’ as he navigated … Continue reading News & Reviews
John R. Wunder, renowned historian, author, and professor passed away on June 25, 2023 at the age of 78. The Western History Association writes that John Wunder was a “generalist in the best sense of the word,” publishing on a … Continue reading Remembering John R. Wunder
Awards Will Rogers Medallion John Mort’s Oklahoma Odyssey and Ella Cara Deloria’s Dakota Way of Life are both finalists Foreword INDIES Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction is a Silver Winner for Autobiography & Memoir Andrew Farkas’ The Great Indoorsman … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews At the Base of the Giant’s Throat Review in The Wall Street Journal: “The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them. Anthony Palumbi’s book, At the … Continue reading News & Reviews
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