Today, March 5 through Saturday, March 8, UNP will be at the 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference! The Spring Training Conference is a multi-disciplinary academic conference, featuring presentations on a wide range of baseball topics, including history, analytics, law, … Continue reading UNP at the 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference
On titles, memoirs-in-essays, novels-in-stories, and a forthcoming book Continue reading The Linked Essays Dilemma
“We’d never have got through it if I hadn’t been so strong.” —Ántonia Shimerda in My Ántonia by Willa Cather Save 50% off these books and more during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM25 in the discount code field … Continue reading Women’s History Month Sale
Reviews All Roads Lead to Rome Review in Lincoln Journal Star: “Author Thorness’s descriptions of the long-forgotten battles involved are vivid and his depictions of the Italian landscape 70 years later serve as reminders of the war which changed so … Continue reading News & Reviews
David Krell is the author of 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (Nebraska, 2021), Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966, and The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox (Nebraska, 2024). His … Continue reading Disco Balls and Baseballs: A Journey to 1978
Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–2006) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is a retired presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Cotton Candy (Nebraska, 2022); Kindest Regards: Poems, … Continue reading Excerpt: Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry
“For baseball fans, the University of Nebraska Press is a perennial MVP—most valuable publisher.” —George F. Will Steal some savings and save 40% on our baseball books! Enter coupon code 6BAB25 in the discount code field of your shopping cart … Continue reading Baseball Book Sale
Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Her book Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Nebraska, 2025) is the … Continue reading Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing a reading list that investigates and explores relationships—whether familial, romantic, platonic, or unrequited—through fiction, memoir, and scholarship. These books complicate the idea of fairy tale happy endings, instead attempting to depict the messy, genuine … Continue reading Reading List: Valentine’s Day
ICYMI Lion of the League by Larry R. Gerlach was the winner of the 2025 SABR Seymour Medal! Lion of the League, by Larry R. Gerlach, gives readers three books for the price of one: a biography of Bob Emslie, … Continue reading News & Reviews
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