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
Liza J. Nicholas is the author of Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State (Nebraska, 2008) and coeditor of Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Her new book Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, … Continue reading Excerpt: Bloodlines
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. “This month I finished reading Saratoga Schaefer’s horror novel, Trad Wife. … Continue reading July Staff Reading List
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
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
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
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on your favorite shows or discover new ones. If you’re looking to augment your watch list with some bookish inspiration, enjoy this selection of UNP titles and authors who have been featured … Continue reading 2026 Summer Watch List
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
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
Planning your next vacation or wanting to get away in the comfort of your home? We’ve curated a reading list for those of you bitten by the travel bug. With a selection of travelogues, tourist histories, and guidebooks, this list … Continue reading Summer Reading: On the Road
