ICYMI Perfect Eloquence Listed as a Sports Illustrated Best Sports Book of 2024 Awards Homing On the longlist for the 2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Award Reviews The Grapes of Conquest Review in California History: “if you have been … 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. Daddy Issues by Eric C. Wat will be published on September 1, 2025. Daddy Issues is a collection of … Continue reading Announcing the next book in Zero Street Fiction
As the year comes to a close, we are taking time to remember the scholars, activists, writers, and professionals who have left us in 2024. As book publishers, authors come to us with projects that encompass years of their lives, … Continue reading In Memoriam
Reviews The Dreamcatcher in the Wry Review in Booklist: “. . . there is a charm to how Midge represents the feeling of information overload. A particularly entertaining section of the book is devoted to the low-stakes headlines that make … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere Review in Motherhood, Literature, & Art: “What is most striking about All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere is the tenderness and care DeMisty shows for the women, girls, and daughters. Lines like, ‘Their hair was uncombed, … Continue reading News & Reviews
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
John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States’ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, … Continue reading The Untold Story of John Muir: A Conversation with Robert McNally
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
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
Reviews The Boy Who Promised Me Horses Review in Montana Quarterly: “There’s a fine line between deep emotion and sentimentality. David Charpentier finds it and strides it in this remarkable new memoir.” Review in Montana the Magazine of Western History: … Continue reading News & Reviews
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