Brian K. Burton is professor emeritus of management and retired associate vice president for academic affairs at Western Washington University. He is the author of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Battlefield Guide (Nebraska, 2026), The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide (Nebraska, 2007), and Extraordinary Circumstances: … Continue reading Excerpt: Forward to Richmond
T.R. Sullivan is a retired beat writer who covered the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 2020. He was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. His new book The Texas Rangers and Me: A Baseball Writer’s Thirty-Two Years … Continue reading Excerpt: The Texas Rangers and Me
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in reviews, social media posts, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano (Nebraska, 2025) by Jim Leeke. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Big Loosh
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in reviews, social media posts, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books (Nebraska, 2025) … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Too Good to Be Altogether Lost
Coquelle Thompson (ca. 1848–1946) was an accomplished storyteller who lived through the Rogue River Wars of 1855–56. His tribal community was evicted from its homeland and resettled with other Athabaskan groups on the Siletz Reservation, where he lived for ninety years. … Continue reading Excerpt: Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories
UNP’s running (and walking) team, Footnotes, participated in the Lincoln Track Club’s 48th Havelock Charity Run on Saturday, June 6. On a cool, cloudy June morning, my husband and I packed up our 20-month-old daughter in the hiking pack and took off … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Footnotes at the 2026 Havelock Charity Run/Walk
This month, the University of Nebraska Press is participating in Give to Lincoln, a community-wide celebration of the nonprofits that help Lincoln learn, grow, imagine, and thrive. Since 1941, UNP has been a distinctive nonprofit publisher committed to the University of Nebraska’s … Continue reading Support the University of Nebraska Press during Give to Lincoln
We are excited to share that Bedross Der Matossian was named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Near Eastern Studies! The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability … Continue reading Bedross Der Matossian Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
UNP’s running (and walking) team, Footnotes, participated in the Lincoln Track Club’s Spring Forward on Saturday, March 21. The 10-Mile, 5k and 1-Mile races began near the Lincoln Zoo. This year marks Footnotes’ fifth attendance at the Lincoln Track Club’s … Continue reading People Make Publishing: The Footnotes at the Spring Forward
Looking to add to your library? Come shop UNP’s office overstock at the Dirty Book Sale. Open to students and the public alike, each book will be available for $5, or you can fill a bag with books for $20! … Continue reading UNP Hosts Dirty Book Sale
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