We are pleased to announce that UNP author Norman L. Macht is the winner of the 2008 Larry Ritter Award, granted by the Society for American Baseball Research‘s Deadball Era Committee, for his book, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. Our congratulations go out to Mr. Macht for this outstanding accomplishment! Continue reading UNP Author Receives Ritter Award
As we make our foray into April, I can’t help but think, “Where did the first quarter of this year go?” I can’t believe that the first part of this year is now, well, history. Before another month flies by, let’s take a look at what happened… This Week in History March 30, 1870: Texas was readmitted to the Union.Interested in the Civil-War-era history of the rebel state of Texas? If so, you won’t want to miss Texas, the Dark Corner of the Confederacy by B. P. Gallaway. The book contains forty documents dating from the eve of the Civil … Continue reading This Week in History: March 30-April 4, 2008
Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman will take part in an interview on the 1400AM KLIN Morning News program on Monday, April 7th at 8:35 AM. Tune in for what promises to be an exciting, insightful interview on baseball history. For more information, visit the KLIN Web site here. Continue reading Author Lee Lowenfish on Lincoln Radio Station
Robin Hemley, author of Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), was announced as a recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in a press release distributed by the Guggenheim Foundation on April 3rd. The fellowship was awarded to 190 artists, scientists, and scholars from a pool of more than 2,600 applicants. To view the Guggenheim Foundation press release and for a link to the full list of this year’s recipients, click here. Congratulations to Robin on this high honor! Continue reading UNP Author Announced as Guggenheim Fellow
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Nebraska residents will want to mark their calendars for an appearance, reading, and signing by celebrated local author William Kloefkorn at the O Street Barnes & Noble in Lincoln on Saturday, April 26th. He will read from Restoring the Burnt Child, the second volume in the author’s four-part memoir, which will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Negotiating the no man’s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy’s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. The event is part of National Poetry … Continue reading Local Event Alert!
Eat, Link, and Be Merry A new Bison Books edition of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food by Gregory McNamee is available this month from UNP. In its pages, McNamee details the myriad of ways in which food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation over the course of human history. Moveable Feasts gathers revelations from history, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and many other fields and spins them into entertaining tales of discovery while adding more than ninety delicious recipes from various culinary traditions around the world, all of which have … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: April 3, 2008
Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 by Norman A. Geske “A major contribution to the literature on Blakelock, who has been one of the most mysterious and misunderstood artists in America’s history. . . . [Geske] helps readers see that Blakelock was a groundbreaking artist in many areas. Geske presents the artist as a forerunner of modernism, and a big influence on 20th-century artists such as Franz Kline. After reading this book, one can no longer think of Blakelock as just an isolated, late-19th-century romantic landscape painter! . . . Highly recommended.”—CHOICE Continue reading Praise for Beyond Madness
Check out this link to an interview with Neil deMause, author of Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit for the National Review Online‘s "Between the Covers" feature with John J. Miller. http://radio.nationalreview.com/betweenthecovers/post/?q=MThjNTFhZTY2NDUyMTkxOGMwOGNjMDZiZmYzY2RhYzc= Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. For more information, visit the book’s site at http://nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Field-of-Schemes,673388.aspx or the author’s Web page at http://www.fieldofschemes.com/. Continue reading Interview with Field of Schemes Author Neil deMause
SMALL ACTS OF TRIVIA New from the University of Nebraska Press is Good Neighbors Bad Times. Echoes of my Father’s German Villiage by Mimi Schwartz. A twelve year journey was started with the tale of a Torah being rescued by Christians in Krestallnacht during the Holocaust. This and other stories of the small German Village before, during, and after the Nazi reign are taken from first person perspectives and used to prove how humanity will soar even in times of hate. In today’s Tuesday Trivia we will test your knowledge of more small acts of kindness and … Continue reading “Tuesday Trivia: April 1, 2008”
