Saturday, March 9 through Sunday, March 10, 2024, UNP will be at the Tucson Festival of Books. Come visit us at booth 202 to browse our books and meet our authors! Check out our virtual exhibit here for the same great books … Continue reading UNP at the Tucson Festival of Books
Craig Harris is a music historian, a skilled percussionist, and the author or coauthor of several books, including Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music and Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music. He is a former music educator … Continue reading Excerpt: Rise Up!
Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, … Continue reading Excerpt: Oracle of Lost Causes
The Nebraska Heritage Book Club was formed to discuss books about Nebraska history, and to uplift Nebraskan authors. This month, the book club is discussing the One Book One Nebraska pick of 2023: The Mystery of Hunting’s End. Join them on … Continue reading Upcoming Book Discussion for The Mystery of Hunting’s End
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 second edition of Black Gun, Silver Star (Bison Books, September 2022) by Art T. Burton. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Black Gun, Silver Star
John R. Wunder, renowned historian, author, and professor passed away on June 25, 2023 at the age of 78. The Western History Association writes that John Wunder was a “generalist in the best sense of the word,” publishing on a … Continue reading Remembering John R. Wunder
One of the best mystifiers in America. Gertrude Stein On this day in 1899, “First Lady of Mystery” Mignon Good Eberhart was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She had a long career, spanning sixty years, that brought her the Grand Masters Edgar … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Mignon G. Eberhart
Jim Minick is the author or editor of seven books, including the award-winning Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Poets and Writers, Oxford American, Orion, and Shenandoah. His latest … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Minick: The Tornado and the Flood
Lawrence A. Dwyer is an attorney at law in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a member of the Nebraska Bar Association and served on the board of directors of the Douglas County Historical Society. He is the author of Standing Bear’s Quest … Continue reading From the Desk of Lawrence Dwyer: Honoring Standing Bear’s legacy with USPS Forever Stamp
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
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