Reviews All Roads Lead to Rome Review in Lincoln Journal Star: “Author Thorness’s descriptions of the long-forgotten battles involved are vivid and his depictions of the Italian landscape 70 years later serve as reminders of the war which changed so … Continue reading News & Reviews
Now until the end of July, thousands of UNP books are available for 50% off across multiple imprints including Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, and the Backwaters Press. Find out how to save here. UNP is taking part in Lincoln … Continue reading Summer Reading List: History
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Twelve Days
ICYMI Godfall by Van Jensen and The Sound of Undoing by Paige Towers were selected as part of the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Both are in the book cover category. The covers were designed by UNP’s Nathan … Continue reading News & Reviews
ICYMI An excerpt from Inside the Mirror by Parul Kapur was featured in LitHub! Reviews Without Destroying Ourselves Review in American Indian Quarterly: “Goodwin’s work allows us to look to the past to see the vision and impact that Indigenous … Continue reading News & Reviews
Upcoming Author Events Sidney Thompson will be giving a talk during the Memphis Area Authors’ Festival at 2pm on April 6th, 2024. Join Gail Shaffer Blankenau for Lunch @ the Library on Wednesday, April 4th, at 12:10pm. She will discuss … Continue reading News & Reviews
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
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
Reviews Portrait of a City Review in Publishers Weekly: “Though Pauley never turns a blind eye to the wrongs committed by residents of Lincoln, his portrait is a genuine labor of love. Midwest history buffs will enjoy this tremendously.” Truman … Continue reading News & Reviews
Claire M. Wolnisty is an assistant professor of history at Austin College and the author of A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America (Nebraska, 2020). When I began research in U.S. Civil War Era history, … Continue reading From the Desk of Claire M. Wolnisty: A Different Manifest Destiny
UNP blog 