Maxwell Johnson is a humanities instructor at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. His newest book, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, was published last month. In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise … Continue reading Excerpt: A Connected Metropolis
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Hansson: The Symptom of Sweden’s Racial Crises
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on some of our recently published history books. With our summer reading sale, you can get our summer-themed books for 50% off! From now until the end of July, Lincoln City Libraries is … Continue reading Summer Reading List: History
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading Excerpt: The Begging Question
Arnold Krupat is a professor emeritus of global studies and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak (Nebraska, 2021) and Companion to James Welch’s “The Heartsong of Charging … Continue reading Excerpt: From the Boarding Schools
Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH’s annual conference this year is in Los Angeles, California, from March 30th-April 2nd. You can find Senior Acquisitions Editor Matt … Continue reading UNP at OAH 2023
William A. White III is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California–Berkeley. His new book, Segregation Made Them Neighbors: An Archeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho (Nebraska, 2023), was published this month. Segregation Made Them Neighbors investigates the relationship … Continue reading Excerpt: Segregation Made Them Neighbors
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 Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports (Nebraska, 2022) by Clayton Trutor. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Loserville
Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is author of the award-winning book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North … Continue reading From the Desk of Brenden W. Rensink: Engaging the Present with the Past
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 Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History (Potomac, 2021) by Aki J. Peritz. About the Book: … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Disruption
UNP blog 