R. Douglas Hurt is a professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Food and Agriculture during the Civil War; The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century; and The Great Plains during World … Continue reading Excerpt: Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900
WITMonth – aka Women in Translation Month – is an annual celebration of women writers from around the world, writing in languages other than English. Started by Meytal Radzinski in 2014, WITMonth is a way to spread the word about … Continue reading WITMonth 2023 Reads
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
ICYMI Daybreak at Chavez Ravine in People’s Magazine Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Land & Climate Review: “In Mine Mine Mine, the sanctity of the body, love, and family all suffer a perverse inversion for the sake of mining a wealth from … Continue reading News & Reviews
Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 and Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935. … Continue reading Excerpt: Hoarding New Guinea
Rebecca Jefferson is the Marketing Associate at the University of Nebraska Press and Editor of the Behind the Book blog. Below, she interviews Dave Van Dore, an avid collector of Bison Books with over 500 titles. Launched in 1961 as … Continue reading Interview with a Bison Books Collector
The price of the following electronic editions have been reduced. Grab your digital copies today! Cultural Negotiations DAVID L. BROWMAN In Cultural Negotiations archaeologist David L. Browman has scoured the archaeological literature and archival records of several institutions to bring the stories … Continue reading New Reduced Ebook Prices
Maxwell Johnson is a humanities instructor at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. His newest book, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, was published last month. In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise … Continue reading Excerpt: A Connected Metropolis
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. “Earlier this year, I picked up copies of our Eberhart … Continue reading July Staff Reading List
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall will be published May 1, 2024. In Berlin, the past … Continue reading Announcing the second book in the Zero Street Fiction series
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