The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall will be published May 1, 2024. In Berlin, the past … Continue reading Announcing the second book in the Zero Street Fiction series
José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. His new book Transimperial Anxieties was published in June. From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation … Continue reading Excerpt: Transimperial Anxieties
LaShandra Sullivan is an associate professor of anthropology at Reed College. Her new book Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil was published in June. In the last half century Brazil’s rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane … Continue reading Excerpt: Unsettling Agribusiness
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
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I’ve just started Emily Henry’s Happy Place, which follows Harriet and … Continue reading May Staff Reading List
Jim Minick is the author or editor of seven books, including the award-winning Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Poets and Writers, Oxford American, Orion, and Shenandoah. His latest … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Minick: The Tornado and the Flood
John Dechant is the author of several books, including Scoreless: Omaha Central, Creighton Prep, and Nebraska’s Greatest High School Football Game (Bison Books, 2016). His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines and the Golfer’s Journal. He is the president of the publishing … Continue reading From the Desk of John Dechant: Paul Runyan–A Pro’s Pro
Jim Minick’s Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (Bison Books, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Without Warning tells the human story of the 1955 tornado … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Jim Minick’s ‘Without Warning’
We’re pleased to share our new Fall / Winter 2023 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Jewish Publication Society, and The Backwaters Press. Visit our NetGalley page for a … Continue reading Introducing the Fall / Winter 2023 Seasonal Catalog
Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published numerous articles on … Continue reading From the Desk of Fredric Brandfon: A Policy of Silence; the Vatican and the Holocaust
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