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
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 James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life of Science during the Age of … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge
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 Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy (Potomac Books, 2025) by … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Fuji Fire
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 started reading Special Places, Sacred Circles: A Memoir by … Continue reading May Staff Reading List
“On the plains it is often said that bison is such an important resource that all life is organized around this species and its by-products” (Bamforth 1988; Wedel 1986). —Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America On May 8, … Continue reading No Longer Grazing: The Removal of Bison from Montana
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 The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks (Bison Books, 2025) by Fred Haefele. About the Book: … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks
From now until Friday, June 12, save 40% on all baseball books. Not sure where to start? We’ve compiled a list of our latest baseball titles which uncover little-known aspects of America’s favorite pastime. Ford Frick offers a re-evaluation of … Continue reading Reading List: New in Baseball
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
Reviews They Are Dead and Yet They Live Review in Emerging Civil War: “They Are Dead and Yet They Live extends our understanding of what we consider Civil War Memory, especially in a time in our nation’s history when Americans … Continue reading News & Reviews
Randolph Lewis is a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Navajo Talking Picture”: Cinema on Native Ground (Nebraska, 2012), Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (Nebraska, 2006), and Under Surveillance: Being Watched in … Continue reading Excerpt: Bummerland
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