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News & Reviews

December 4, 2025December 1, 2025 univnebpress

Reviews Fuji Fire Review in The Military Report: “If you want to understand what leadership looks like— and what happens when it fails—this is the book. Not glamorous. Not heroic. Just true.” Review in Warriors Publishing: “It’s compelling reading and … Continue reading News & Reviews

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News & Reviews

November 20, 2025November 18, 2025 univnebpress

Reviews Making Space Review in H-Diplo: “Byrnes’s study makes a critical intervention into the history and historiography of the postwar and postcolonial immigrant communities in France, exploring how and why municipalities such as Saint-Denis and others reacted to and created … Continue reading News & Reviews

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Holiday Sale

November 18, 2025November 13, 2025 univnebpress

Happy Holidays from the University of Nebraska Press! Great books make great gifts, so for the rest of the year, until December 31, 2025, our entire catalog is available for 50% OFF. This sale includes over 4,000 books, so there’s something for … Continue reading Holiday Sale

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UP Week: WHO #TeamsUP for your Press?

November 10, 2025November 6, 2025 univnebpress

Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year’s theme for UP Week is “Team UP,” to celebrate the ways … Continue reading UP Week: WHO #TeamsUP for your Press?

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Books that #TeamUP for UP Week 2025

November 6, 2025November 5, 2025 univnebpress

Next week, join UNP in celebrating University Press Week 2025! Celebrated from November 10-14, this year’s theme is “TeamUP!” encouraging presses and their supporters to acknowledge the daily contributions of all members of this global community. Collaborative work is the … Continue reading Books that #TeamUP for UP Week 2025

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UNP Books on NetGalley

November 5, 2025November 3, 2025 univnebpress

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

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Rags of the First Division awarded the Purple Poppy

October 30, 2025October 28, 2025 univnebpress

Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo’s Lost War Horses (Potomac Books, 2017) and From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division (Potomac Books, 2015). The author donates a portion … Continue reading Rags of the First Division awarded the Purple Poppy

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Excerpt: Out of Gaza

October 27, 2025October 23, 2025 univnebpress

Katharina Galor is the Hirschfield Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University. Born in Germany, where her parents had fled from communist Romania, Galor was educated in Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. She is the author or coauthor … Continue reading Excerpt: Out of Gaza

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News & Reviews

October 22, 2025October 16, 2025 univnebpress

Reviews Starlings Review in Bird Guides: “A powerful story of the perils of messing with the ecosystem, however small and well-intentioned the original action might be.” Review in H-Net: “Starlings is both highly readable and deeply entertaining, tracing how starlings went … Continue reading News & Reviews

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Reading List: True Crime

October 17, 2025October 20, 2025 univnebpress

Heinous crime was not a nightly television show—it was as real as dusk. It lingered in sharp shadows, under neighborhood street lights, between dark suburban houses, in police sketches on milk cartons, in slow vans and cars with tinted windows, … Continue reading Reading List: True Crime

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