With Mignon G. Eberhart’s detective novel The Mystery of Hunting’s End (Bison Books, 1998) chosen as the 19th One Book One Nebraska selection for 2023, the University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce five more of Eberhart’s beloved and … Continue reading Five novels by Mignon G. Eberhart return to print
Congratulations to Jason Cannon, author of Charlie Murphy, and Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker, authors of Red Barber! They are finalists for the 2022 CASEY Award. Each year Spitball Magazine presents an award for the best baseball book … Continue reading Announcing the 2022 CASEY Award Finalists
Congratulations to two UNP authors who were recognized for their work! Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice (Bison Books, 2021) by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys won in the First Book Award category. The Track the Whales … Continue reading High Plains Book Award Winners: Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys & Marjorie Saiser
The One Book One Nebraska reading program is entering its nineteenth year. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and discuss one book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. A committee of … Continue reading 2023 One Book One Nebraska
Congratulations to two UNP authors who were recognized for their work! Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (Nebraska, 2021) by Paul Barba has been selected for the 2022 David J. Weber Prize for the best … Continue reading WHA Prize Winners: Paul Barba and Traci Brynne Voyles
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
Anthony Wood’s Black Montana is a finalist for the 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2022 SABR Baseball Research Awards Lawrence Baldassaro for Tony Lazzeri: Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer Josh Chetwynd for “Taking Your LUMPs: Major League Baseball’s History of … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
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
Congratulations to Jacqueline Saper, whose memoir From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran (Potomac Books, 2019) was named the 2020 Book of the Year in Traditional Nonfiction by the Chicago Writers Association! Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was … Continue reading “From Miniskirt to Hijab” Named a Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association
The American Astronautical Society recently announced the 2020 recipients for the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History, including the University of Nebraska Press for the Outward Odyssey series. The Ordway Award is named in memory of Frederick I. Ordway … Continue reading UNP receives the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History
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