Damon Root is an award-winning legal affairs journalist and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books, 2023) and Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court. His writing has also appeared … Continue reading Excerpt: Emancipation War
David Benac is Chair of the Department of History and associate professor at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Conflict in the Ozarks: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Courtois Hills. His new book Rainforest Radicals: A … Continue reading From the Desk of David Benac: What the Rainforest Action Network’s First Two Decades Teach Us Today
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
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
Jim Ingraham is an award-winning sports columnist for the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram in Ohio. He is the author of Mike Hargrove and the Cleveland Indians: A Baseball Life. His most recent book So Young, So Great: Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America was published by … Continue reading Excerpt: So Young, So Great
Pearl E. Casias served as the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s chief judge for twelve years. She also served on the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council and was the first woman elected chair of the tribe. Her new book Red Woman: My … Continue reading Excerpt: Red Woman
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! 2025 Forward INDIES UNP was named INDIE Publisher of the Year! Scarlett (Potomac Books, 2025) by Leslie Stainton is the Bronze Award Winner in Autobiography and Memoir. 2026 … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Anthony Lookout (1956–2026) was an Osage songwriter and musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma. His Osage name was Hunkathali, meaning “good eagle,” from the Hunka clan. He spent his life playing music as a multi-instrumentalist performing and recording songs and music videos and … Continue reading Excerpt: Tilton and Grace Entokah
William C. Kashatus is a historian, educator, and the author of more than twenty books, including Blue-Eyed Soul Brother, Lefty and Tim, and Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Line. His most recent book … Continue reading Excerpt: Spitballer
We’re pleased to share our new Fall/Winter 2026 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Backwaters Press, and the Jewish Publication Society. Visit our NetGalley page for a select list … Continue reading Introducing the Fall/Winter 2026 Seasonal Catalog
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