The annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) began yesterday in Chicago and will last through the weekend. Open to all baseball fans, the meeting includes top featured speakers from around the baseball world—front office executives, players, managers, … Continue reading UNP at SABR’s 51st Annual Convention
Awards Will Rogers Medallion John Mort’s Oklahoma Odyssey and Ella Cara Deloria’s Dakota Way of Life are both finalists Foreword INDIES Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction is a Silver Winner for Autobiography & Memoir Andrew Farkas’ The Great Indoorsman … Continue reading News & Reviews
Curtis H. Freese, author of Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife, will present themes from his new book during a webinar hosted by the Great Plains Conservation Network to discuss the mission to … Continue reading Virtual Event with Curtis H. Freese
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading Excerpt: The Begging Question
Reviews At the Base of the Giant’s Throat Review in The Wall Street Journal: “The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them. Anthony Palumbi’s book, At the … Continue reading News & Reviews
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 Charlie Murphy: The Iconoclastic Showman behind the Chicago Cubs (Nebraska, June 2022) by Jason Cannon. About the Book: … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Charlie Murphy
Reviews Henry James Framed Review in Gay and Lesbian Review: “Michael Anesko has dedicated a prodigious amount of scholarship to produce an accessible, highly entertaining account of the 24 times that James sat for his portrait… This is a book … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Mónica Gomery’s Might Kindred was a category finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award Reviews We Who Walk the Seven Ways Review in Foreword Reviews: “Covering topics as diverse as race, religion, and the craft of writing, We Who Walk the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Jim Minick’s Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (Bison Books, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Without Warning tells the human story of the 1955 tornado … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Jim Minick’s ‘Without Warning’
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 The Women Who Built Omaha (Bison Books, 2022) by Eileen Wirth. About the Book: During the 1930s the … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to The Women Who Built Omaha
