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 Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, February 2023) by Elliott … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning
On February 12 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2024 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal but the runner-up as well! Steven P. Gietschier’s Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years … Continue reading Clean Sweep for the 2024 Seymour Medal
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! A.M. Pate Award 2023 Union General (Potomac Books, 2023) by William L. Shea won the 2023 Pate Award. Given out annually, the A. M. Pate award recognizes the … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
ICYMI Changing Woman by Venetia Hobson Lewis was nominated as a Semi-Finalist for the 2023 Laramie Book Awards. Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 was selected by the American Library Association as one of … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews If This Were Fiction Review in Sweet Lit: “In your collection of essays, you deftly stretch and flex the delicate and injured tendons of memory to explore grief, love, and the relationship between the two. . .Your essays inspire … Continue reading News & Reviews
ICYMI Liza Black (Picturing Indians) and Nancy Marie Mithlo (Knowing Native Arts) on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss Killers of the Flower Moon. Reviews Truman and the Bomb Review in Parameters: “Truman and the Bomb is relevant to today’s … Continue reading News & Reviews
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! WHA Awards We Are Not Animals (Nebraska, 2022) by Martin Rizzo-Martinez won the 2023 John C. Ewers Award which is given annually for the best published book on … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
In December of each year Choice publishes its list of Outstanding Academic Titles. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles, both print and digital, reviewed by Choice during the previous year and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of … Continue reading Announcing the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2023
Reviews Galloping Gourmet Review in True West Magazine: “Collecting the West columnist and William F. Cody historian Steve Friesen has just released his latest book about his favorite Western hero, Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill (Bison Books, … Continue reading News & Reviews
Is there anything better than a good book? At UNP, the answer is most often ‘no,’ but a movie or TV show inspired by a book is a close second. November was an exciting month for tv-adaptions of UNP books, … Continue reading UNP Goes to Hollywood
