On February 4 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2022 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal, but both of the finalists as well! Steven Treder’s Forty Years a Giant: … Continue reading Clean Sweep for the 2022 Seymour Medal
In celebration of Black History Month, we are sharing a wonderful selection of titles exploring Black spaces, ideas, communities, history, and voices. Here are twelve books exploring those important topics of which we can always strive to further our education … Continue reading Black History Month Reading List
Sarah Deutsch is a professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Making a Modern U.S. West
Paul Barba is an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University. His book, Country of the Cursed and Driven (Nebraska, 2021), is new this month. Part I Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s–1760s On May 12, 1745, a party … Continue reading Excerpt: Country of the Cursed and Driven
Check out the list below for titles from Potomac Books that are in paperback for the first time! 9/12: The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders by William H. Groner and Tom Teicholz “9/11 was a tragedy on many … Continue reading New in Paperback from Potomac Books
Check out the list of books under the Nebraska imprint that are available in paperback for the first time! The Chalmers Race by Rick Huhn “This book goes beyond baseball, also giving readers an understanding of America itself after the … Continue reading New in Paperback this Fall
Join Politics & Prose for a Live! virtual event with Scott D. Seligman as he discusses his newest book, A Second Reckoning (Potomac Books, 2021), on Tuesday, October 26 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Register for the event here! A Second … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Politics & Prose with Scott D. Seligman
David Krell is the author of Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory, and Popular Culture. His most recent book is 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (Nebraska, 2021). My original idea for a book about the 1962 … Continue reading From the Desk of David Krell: My Journey to 1962
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 just finished Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and … Continue reading August Staff Reading List
Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, passed away on August 20, 2021 at the age of 85. Oates was a Kendall Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Massachusettes-Amherst. In the “Civil War quartet”, one of his best-known works, … Continue reading Remembering Stephen B. Oates
