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
ICYMI Liza Black (Picturing Indians) and Nancy Marie Mithlo (Knowing Native Arts) on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss Killers of the Flower Moon. Reviews Truman and the Bomb Review in Parameters: “Truman and the Bomb is relevant to today’s … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews Galloping Gourmet Review in True West Magazine: “Collecting the West columnist and William F. Cody historian Steve Friesen has just released his latest book about his favorite Western hero, Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill (Bison Books, … Continue reading News & Reviews
We’re pleased to share our new Spring / Summer 2024 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Jewish Publication Society, and the Backwaters Press. Visit our NetGalley page for a … Continue reading Introducing the Spring / Summer 2024 Seasonal Catalog
Reviews Lincoln and California Review in Civil War Books and Authors Blog: “Written in a style appealing to popular audiences while also possessing the full trappings of modern historical scholarship, Brian McGinty’s informative survey of the many Civil War-era connections … Continue reading News & Reviews
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