ICYMI Van Jensen’s Godfall was picked up by Imagine TV, with the television adaption to be directed by Ron Howard. As part of Nebraska Research Days, author Dana Fritz will talk about her book, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, … Continue reading News & Reviews
Join the University of Nebraska Press in celebrating University Press Week 2023! Celebrated from November 13-17, this year’s theme is “Speak UP!” and the Association for University Presses encourages “presses and their supporters to shout to the rooftops about the … Continue reading Upcoming: University Press Week 2023
People from all over the world had descended to render Bass’ story for the screen, based on my books. It was humbling to see all that, and I can’t wait to see the results. Sidney Thompson, in an interview with … Continue reading Lawmen: Bass Reeves airing November 5th
Join the University of Nebraska Press and UNL’s English department in celebrating the first publication in our Zero Street Fiction series with some events celebrating the series later today! Zero Street is committed to LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Zero Street Fiction
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies around. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I’ve been rereading Bram Stoker’s Dracula this month to get in on … Continue reading October Staff Reading List
Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, … Continue reading Excerpt: Oracle of Lost Causes
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro’s Cuba (Potomac Books, October 2022) by John A. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Operation Pedro Pan
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! Chicago Writes Book of the Year If This Were Fiction (Nebraska, 2022) by Jill Christman is a Finalist in the Traditional Nonfiction category. The winner will be announced … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Reviews Portrait of a City Review in Publishers Weekly: “Though Pauley never turns a blind eye to the wrongs committed by residents of Lincoln, his portrait is a genuine labor of love. Midwest history buffs will enjoy this tremendously.” Truman … Continue reading News & Reviews
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