Held each fall in and around the majestic State Capitol in downtown Austin, the annual Festival Weekend features a rich variety of author presentations and panels, book signings, cooking demonstrations, programs and activities for kids of all ages, food trucks, … Continue reading UNP Authors at the Texas Book Festival
Reviews Might Kindred Review in Waxwing: “As a daughter of immigrants, and a Jewish, queer poet, Gomery weaves the past, present, and future throughout five sections in the book, where we are presented with time and place in non-linear sequence. … Continue reading News & Reviews
Lisa Hendrickson’s Burning the Breeze is a finalist for the Evans Biography Award Wynne Brown’s Forgotten Botanist is a WILLA award winner and Burning the Breeze is a finalist Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla and Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora are … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
C. Thomas Shay is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Nebraska, July 2022). Writing Under Prairie Skies … Continue reading From the Desk of C. Thomas Shay: The Making of an Ethnobotany
Geoffrey D. Kimball is an independent scholar. He is the author of Koasati Dictionary (Nebraska, 1994), Koasati Grammar (Nebraska, 1991), and translator of Kosati Traditional Narratives (Nebraska, 2010). His new book Yukhíti Kóy (Nebraska, 2022) is now available. Introduction The Atakapa language is attested … Continue reading Excerpt: Yukhíti Kóy
Michael Weeks is a lecturer of history at Utah Valley University. His book Cattle Beet Capital (Nebraska, 2022) is now available. From the Introduction Few companies in the American West articulate the agricultural transformations of the twentieth century more completely than … Continue reading Excerpt: Cattle Beet Capital
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez is the Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of several books, including To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes and A History … Continue reading Excerpt: In Praise of the Ancestors
On Saturday, June 25 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. meet local Nebraska authors including three UNP authors hosted by Chapters Books & Gifts. Suzanne Ohlmann author of Shadow Migration, Marjorie Saiser author of The Tracks the Whales Make, and Amy … Continue reading Meet Local Nebraska Authors on June 25
Gerald R. Gems is a professor emeritus of kinesiology at North Central College. He is the author and editor of several books, including Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers (Nebraska, 2017) and The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: Sports and Aging
Derek Moscato is an associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University. The following is an excerpt from his book Dirt Persuasion (Nebraska, 2022). Chapter One: A Pipeline Runs Through It Nearly three hours west of Omaha, in the heart of … Continue reading Excerpt: Dirt Persuasion
