Dr. Autumn Lorimer Linford is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. Her decades-long journalistic career spanned the United States from Wyoming to North Carolina and her award-winning historical research has appeared in top academic journals like American Journalism. Her book, … Continue reading From the Desk of Autumn Linford: Giving Newsgirls their Place in History
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
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in reviews, social media posts, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car (Bison Books, 2025) by Jim … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Frontier Comrades
Reviews HUM Review in Publishers Weekly: “In Urdu, hum can mean both ‘we’ and ‘I,’ an ambiguity Sheriff uses skillfully in many poems about their beloved.” 52 Writing Prompts Review in Hippocampus Magazine: “The beauty of the book is in its … Continue reading News & Reviews
Brian K. Burton is professor emeritus of management and retired associate vice president for academic affairs at Western Washington University. He is the author of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Battlefield Guide (Nebraska, 2026), The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide (Nebraska, 2007), and Extraordinary Circumstances: … Continue reading Excerpt: Forward to Richmond
ICYMI Ojibwe Ethnogenesis (Nebraska, 2025) is the Winner of the 2026 Wisconsin Historical Society Book of Merit Award. Rare Good (Nebraska, 2026) was featured in Publishers Weekly’s Fall 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview. Reviews Ford Frick Review in Epoch Times: … Continue reading News & Reviews
Dima Arzyutov is a historical anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University. His research examines Arctic and Siberian Indigenous histories in relation to the critical assessment of the … Continue reading Of Letters, Bridges, and Transnational Arctic Anthropology
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in reviews, social media posts, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano (Nebraska, 2025) by Jim Leeke. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Big Loosh
Reviews Inside the Hot Zone Review in Health Security: “I highly recommend the book, especially to those wanting a first-person account of what it was and is like being on the leading edge of biosecurity.” Review in Journal of Military … Continue reading News & Reviews
David Benac is Chair of the Department of History and associate professor at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Conflict in the Ozarks: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Courtois Hills. His new book Rainforest Radicals: A … Continue reading From the Desk of David Benac: What the Rainforest Action Network’s First Two Decades Teach Us Today
