Publisher Profile / University of Nebraska Press
Facts
Mission and genres: “The University of Nebraska Press is a nonprofit scholarly and general interest press that publishes new titles annually under the Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac Book imprints, and in partnership with the Jewish Publication Society, along with 31 journals. As the largest and most diversified press between Chicago and California, with more than 4,000 books in print, the University of Nebraska Press is best known for publishing works in Native studies, history, sports, anthropology, and geography, American studies and cultural criticism, and creative works. For more information, visit nebraskapress.unl.edu.”
Year Founded: 1941
Titles Published Yearly: 170
Reviews
Eyeing the Red Storm: Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite by Robert M. Dienesch
Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War by Perry D. Jamieson
Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal by Sue Eisenfeld
A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History by Tim Grove
Young Widower by John W. Evans
The Last Days of the Rainbelt by David J. Wishart
Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History by Jonathan Black
Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America by Lawrence R. Samuel
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park by Jules Leclercq
Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting by Beverly Deepe Keever
501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die by Ron Kaplan
The Future of the Jewish People in Five Photographs by Peter S Temes
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts
A Mind Like This by Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer by Timothy F. Grainey
Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt Edited by Marie Odile Delacour & Jean-Rene Huleu, Translated by Melissa Marcus
Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
The Book of What Stays by James Crews
Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns by Judy Muller
Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of Golf by Zackary Michael Jack
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda
The Overseer’s Cabin by Édouard Glissant, Translated by Betsy Wing
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ’68 Racial Divide by Steve Marantz
Driving With Dvořák: Essays on Memory and Identity by Fleda Brown
The Nebraska Dispatches by Christopher Cartmill
Death as a Side Effect by Ana María Shua, Translated by Andrea G. Labinger
The Year 3000: A Dream by Paolo Mantegazza, Edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, Translated by David Jacobson
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong & Nick Perry
Sleep in Me by Jon Pineda
Goodbye Wifes and Daughters by Susan Kushner Resnick
The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat by Michael Robert Evans
Quotidiana by Patrick Madden
Things Seen by Annie Ernaux
In the Mind’s Eye: Essays Across the Animate World by Elizabeth Dodd
Lana’s Lakota Moons by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing by Steve Cox & Ted Kooser
So You Want to Write about American Indians? A Guide for Writers Students and Scholars by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
The French Navy and the Seven Years War by Jonathan R. Dull
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
Violations: Stories of Love by Latin American Women by Psiche Hughes
Last Call by K.L. Cook
Breathing in the Fullness of Time by Willliam Kloefkorn
How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize by Joan Fry
Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West by Daryl Farmer
Baseball and the Media: How Fans Lose in Today’s Coverage of the Game by George Castle
I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist by Baya Gacemi, Translated by Constantina Mitchell & Paul Cote
The Hermaphrodite by Julia Ward Howe
Gang of One by Fan Shen
Fault Line by Laurie Alberts
Turning Bones by Lee Martin
The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball’s 1913-1914 World Tour by James E. Elfers
The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery by Meriwether Lewis & Author William Clark, Edited by Gary E. Moulton
Phantom Limb by Janet Sternburg
When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood by Margaret Bell
Best of Prairie Schooner by Hilda Raz & Kate Flaherty
Swallow Summer by Charles R. Brown
Awards
Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11 by Robert W. Jordan. 2015 Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir
Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses by Sonja Livingston. 2015 Finalist for Essays
Darkened Rooms of Summer by Jared Carter. 2014 Finalist for Poetry
The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew by Sue William Silverman. 2014 Finalist for Essays
Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food Edited by Peggy Wolff. 2013 GOLD Winner for Anthologies
Young Widower by John W. Evans. 2014 SILVER Winner for Grief/Grieving
American Jews and America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball by Larry Ruttman. 2013 Finalist for Sports
Body Geographic by Barrie Jean Borich. 2013 BRONZE Winner for Essays
Your Midwest Garden: An Owner’s Manual by Jan Riggenbach. 2013 Finalist for Home & Garden
Hoosh by Jason C. Anthony. 2012 GOLD Winner for Travel Essays
We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Ellen Cassedy. 2012 SILVER Winner for History
Stolen Horses by Dan O’Brien. 2010 SILVER Winner for General
Searching for Tamsen Donner by Gabrielle Burton. 2009 Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir
Good Neighbors, Bad Times by Mimi Schwartz. 2008 BRONZE Winner for Autobiography & Memoir
The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie Edited by Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor. 2008 GOLD Winner for Anthologies
The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood by Michelle Herman. 2005 Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir
The Book of What Stays by James Crews. 2011 HONORABLE Mention for Poetry
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. 2011 Finalist for Historical
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ’68 Racial Divide by Steve Marantz. 2011 GOLD Winner for Sports
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber. 2010 Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir
Sleep in Me by Jon Pineda. 2010 Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir
Quotidiana by Patrick Madden. 2010 BRONZE Winner for Essays
Foreword Mentions
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Press Releases
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