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Bicycling Blogger

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 While our chief blogger Cara is still cycling across Nebraska this week, here's another University of Nebraska Press cycling memoir to check out: An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 by Kevin J. Hayes. In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865–1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He passed through Nebraska on his trip and he also managed to meet the legendary baseball player A. G. Spalding in Chicago, take in professional baseball games in Detroit and Chicago, participate in several bicycle races in Omaha, attend an opera … Continue reading Bicycling Blogger

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Running for Reading

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This past weekend, the University of Nebraska Press fielded a women's 10k team in our local Havelock Charity Run, and our charity funds went to the Lincoln Literacy Council. To top it all off, we also earned 3rd place in our division. UNP Runners from left to right: Erica Corwin (web sales coordinator and sometimes blogger), Tish Fobben (direct mail manager), Amy Lage (UNP facebook fan), Cara Pesek (Publicity Manager and chief blogger), Donna Shear (director), Joeth Zucco (Senior Project Editor) If you're a runner or you're interested in reading about running, check out Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running … Continue reading Running for Reading

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Off the Shelf: The Age of the Ship of the Line by Jonathan R. Dull

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Read from the Preface of The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan R. Dull: "Between 1689 and 1815 the British (or initially the English allied with the Scots) fought seven wars against France. Their navies played an important, sometimes critical, role. The power of the rival navies was based chiefly on their ships of the line, great wooden warships carrying two or three tiers of iron or brass cannon. The age of the ship of the line is largely the story of the navies of Britain and France, the two powers … Continue reading Off the Shelf: The Age of the Ship of the Line by Jonathan R. Dull

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This Day in History, and three bicycling links

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It’s a lovely, lovely Friday here in Lincoln, and it’s also time for another round of This Day in History. The first anniversary doesn’t apply directly to literary history or to any University of Nebraska Press titles, but it is an important date as far as bloggers are concerned – on this day in 1977, Apple introduced the first practical home computer, the Apple II. And nerds everywhere rejoiced. Today is also the birthday of Pat Garrett, the American sheriff who shot Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the south, who, as … Continue reading This Day in History, and three bicycling links

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Happy birthday Dad! Happy publication day Alexander Cartwright! Happy upcoming Father’s Day!

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Every year, June 2, my dad’s birthday, sneaks up on me. Rarely do I have a gift for him (though it always serves as a reminder of Father’s Day, a few weeks later).  Had I been thinking, this year I would have given my dad a copy of Monica Nucciarone’s new book, Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend. My dad (like many dads out there) loves both baseball and baseball history, and I’m sure he’d appreciate learning more of Cartwright’s very interesting life, which included founding the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York, joining the California Gold … Continue reading Happy birthday Dad! Happy publication day Alexander Cartwright! Happy upcoming Father’s Day!

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Photographic Review of BEA

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Here are a few shots from BookExpo America: More than 50 people attended BEA’s Independent Publishers Editors Buzz panel Saturday morning. Tom Swanson pitched Ted Kooser’s forthcoming book, Lights on a Ground of Darkness. ForeWord Magazine's Independent Publisher of the Year Award looks nice in the UNP booth. A wider view of the UNP booth after Thursday's setup. Continue reading Photographic Review of BEA

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Saturday BEA review

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Mystery Blogger had this to say about Day 2 at BookExpo America: I have that sick, elated feeling I get when a book I wish I’d written appears in front of me.     An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson, is the first modern biography of the most amazing character of early America. And there were a few around then. Walker & Co. publishes this new biography in October. I snagged an advance at the Book Expo America on Saturday. Written by the British writer Andro Linklater, this is a book that fills a great void.  … Continue reading Saturday BEA review

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Off the Shelf: Alexander Cartwright by Monica Nucciarone

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Read from the Introduction of Alexander Cartwright: The Life behind the Baseball Legend by Monica Nucciarone: "Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938 in Cooperstown, New York. In Honolulu, Hawaii, a street as well as a park are named for him, and each year his gravesite is visited by hundreds of baseball fans, both locals and tourists. They leave baseball mementos and notes thanking him for the sport. Since at least the 1930s, his reputation as the primary founder of modern baseball has seemed solid and accepted, and his accomplishments are of … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Alexander Cartwright by Monica Nucciarone

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And here’s what ForeWord Magazine had to say about us:

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During an awards ceremony at BookExpo America today, ForeWord Magazine named the University of Nebraska Press its 2008 Independent Publisher of the Year. In a year marked by layoffs across the publishing industry and the shuttering of many major publishing imprints, ForeWord's editorial staff cited Nebraska's outstanding works of translation, regional fiction, poetry, and memoir. The University Press also earned praise for publishing highly accomplished travel, sports, story, and scholarly books. "At ForeWord, we are always excited to receive a new catalog from them because we've discovered over the years that if they've chosen to publish a book, then it … Continue reading And here’s what ForeWord Magazine had to say about us: