Tune in at 2 p.m. to hear Tracy Crow's interview with Amy Fladeboe of The Weekly Reader. The program airs on 89.7 KMSU-FM, in Mankato, Minn. and is also available via streaming here. Crow is the author of Eyes Right, a memoir of the challenges of being a woman and a Marine. Continue reading Radio interview with Tracy Crow
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central by Steve Marantz is the Gold winner in Sports. James Crews' The Book of What Stays received honorable mention in Poetry. Click here to see the full list of winners. Congratulations to Steve and James! Continue reading ForeWord Book of the Year Award winners
Jackson, Mississippi is the story of the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, told by one of its foremost activists, John R. Salter Jr. The struggle for civil rights featured some of the bloodiest resistance by a panoply of repressive resources—“lawmen,” hoodlums, politicians, and vigilantes—but also introduced Salter to the movement’s most compelling and important figures, including NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers. The Journal of Mississippi History called it “A meticulously crafted, almost hour-by-hour account of the rise and fall of one of the region’s more remarkable grass-roots protest movements.” This month, people are remembering Medgar Evers' legacy. He was assassinated June … Continue reading Remembering Medgar Evers
Timothy Grainey, author of Beyond Bend it Like Beckham, was interviewed by Bruce Berglund for New Books in Sports. Take a listen to the interview here. Continue reading Discussing women’s soccer
This year is the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act and the Homestead National Monument is right here in Nebraska! Visit the National Park Service site to see events celebrating this landmark in American History. And forthcoming this September is Nancy Plain's Light on the Prairie which features 62 of Solomon D. Butcher's photographs taken of this monumentous event which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it. Continue reading Celebrating the Homestead Act
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader was reviewed on Strategy Page by A. A. Nofi. Nofi called the book "…an absolutely essential work for any serious student of the military aspects of the Civil War or the history of the U.S. Army and of American warmaking." Read the full review here. Continue reading UNP book ‘essential’
No Word for Welcome by Wendy Call was mentioned in The Seattle Times for winning first-place prize in the Best History/Political Book in English category of the International Latino Book Awards. Continue reading Seattle Times mentions author award
Derek Krissoff has been named the new Editor in Chief for the University of Nebraska Press, effective July 16. He comes to UNL from the University of Georgia Press in Athens, Ga., where he has been a senior acquisitions editor since 2006. During his tenure in Georgia, Krissoff acquired books in history and geography. See the full press release here. Continue reading New UNP editor-in-chief
Congratulations to Dan Aadland for winning the 1st place prize for book/E-book in the 2012 Excellence in Craft contest sponsored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America! His book, In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter’s Journey, is a quest to hunt Teddy Roosevelt's favorite places offering an introspective commentary on the ecology of the Northern Plains, the psyche of the West, Roosevelt's historical significance, and the culture and perceptions of hunting. Congrats again, Dan! Continue reading Aadland wins first place prize
Island of Bones by Joy Castro, coming this Fall, recieved a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. Robert K. Fitt's Banzai Babe Ruth was reviewed in The Washington Post. Not by the Sword by Kathryn Watterson was mentioned in The Triangle at Drexel University. And Matthew Gavin Frank's Pot Farm won the grand prize at the 2012 New York Book Festival. Continue reading The Friday roundup
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