Congratulations to UNP author Elliott West for being a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist! The Pulitzer Prize in History is awarded to a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States. The prize-winner was Jacqueline Jones for … Continue reading Elliott West is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist
The University of Nebraska Press is excited to join the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating literary translation this May. Annually, the ALTA hosts Write the World, a series of virtual panels on all aspects of translation. This year … Continue reading Reading List: #ReadTheWorld
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
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 here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Victoria Lamont is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Westerns: A Women’s History (Nebraska, 2016) and coauthor of Judith Merril: A Critical Study. Her most recent book is The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Bower Atmosphere
Mark Fiege is a professor of history and Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University. He is the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Michael J. Lansing is a professor of history at … Continue reading Excerpt: Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country
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 Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster (Bison Books, March 2023) by R. Eli Paul. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Skywalks
Congratulations to UNP author Elliott West for being awarded the 2024 Bancroft Prize! West was one of two winners for his book Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. It was described by the jury as “a … Continue reading Continental Reckoning Wins Bancroft Prize
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
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