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UP Week: WHY does your press #TeamUp?

November 11, 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: WHY does your press #TeamUp?

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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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From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain ’n’ Books

November 7, 2025November 3, 2025 univnebpress

Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, coauthor of Forbidden Talent, with … Continue reading From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain ’n’ Books

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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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Five different covers of books about Indigenous peoples.

Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale 2025

November 4, 2025October 31, 2025 univnebpress

The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of native … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale 2025

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Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly

November 3, 2025October 31, 2025 univnebpress

Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of the story collection American Masculine, winner of numerous prizes including the American Book Award; the novel American Copper; and the poetry collection Atomic Theory … Continue reading Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly

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October Staff Reading List

October 31, 2025October 28, 2025 univnebpress

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. “This month I finished reading Mona Awad’s We Love You, Bunny, … Continue reading October Staff Reading List

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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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