Reviews Baseball’s First Superstar Review in the Epoch Times: “Gaff has unearthed a trove of baseball treasure with descriptions and stories of Mathewson by those who knew him best.” Starlings Review in the Lincoln Journal Star: “This book belongs in … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews Planting Seeds of the Divine Review in Publishers Weekly: “Smith makes a valuable case for using scripture to unlock a more ‘personal and intimate’ dimension of Jewish spirituality. Readers will find this a thought-provoking companion to their Torah study.” … Continue reading News & Reviews
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 Cast out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Cast Out of Eden
Reviews Tell Me about Your Bad Guys Review in Booklist: “Readers willing to put in the time will be rewarded with a precise and provocative look into one engaged and meticulously self-analytical individual’s experience of being a parent.” Georgia and … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews Starlings Review in Booklist: “Stark follows the starling’s movements across the continent through articles in newspapers, magazines, and scientific journals as people’s original welcome for their new avian neighbors quickly turned to aggravation. . . . This combination of … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews The Golden Land Review in Vol.1 Brooklyn: “What makes The Golden Land a superb novel is the sheer facility of Shick’s storytelling. The book smoothly carries us along the story lines that run from Boston to Myanmar over fateful periods in … Continue reading News & Reviews
Robert W. Galler Jr. is a professor of history at St. Cloud State University. His new book Taking Chage, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School (Nebraska, 2025) was published in … Continue reading Excerpt: Taking Charge, Making Change
Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. She is a columnist for High Country News and formerly Indian Country Today. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s, and more. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
Oriol Ambrogio Gali is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. His latest book Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 was published by Nebraska in December. Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of … Continue reading Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of over thirty journals, and today we’re highlighting five to subscribe to in the New Year. Covering the latest scholarship in Women and Gender Studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, Environmental … Continue reading Five Journals to Subscribe to in the New Year
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