Wednesday, March 6 through Saturday, March 9, UNP will be at the 2024 NINE Spring Training Conference. The Spring Training Conference is a multi-disciplinary academic conference, featuring presentations on a wide range of baseball topics, including history, analytics, law, media … Continue reading UNP at the NINE Spring Training Conference
Jim Leeke is a former news journalist, a retired copywriter and creative director, and a U.S. Navy veteran. He is the author of several books, including The Turtle and the Dreamboat (Potomac Books, 2022), The Best Team Over There (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: The Gas and Flame Men
Reviews A New Deal for Quilts Review in The Literate Quilter: “In her Preface, Smucker connects Pandemic quilt making to the past and in the last chapter includes examples of Pandemic quilts, demonstrating how quilters respond to current events and … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews The Book of Revolutions Review in Catholic Biblical Quarterly: “In sum, F.’s exemplary reader-friendly work of critical biblical scholarship respects traditional approaches in demonstrating that pluralism, not singularity, better explains the origins of the Torah, its conflicting teachings, and … Continue reading News & Reviews
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
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list! NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
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
Black History Month originates from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)’s national Negro History Week initially founded in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. The celebration was later officially proclaimed by President Gerald Ford as … Continue reading 10 Books for Black History Month
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
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list! NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
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