About the University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is the largest university press between Chicago and California. It publishes scholarly and general-interest books (with more than 5,000 titles in print and an additional 150 new titles released each year) and journals (with more than 30 different journals published each year) in topics ranging from anthropology and literary criticism to history and sports. In addition to the Nebraska imprint, the Press also publishes books under Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books imprints and publishes the books of The Jewish Publication Society. The Journals division produces the publications of Nebraska Extension, a division of the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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Featured Books

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

Terra Trevor

My Side of the River

Elias Kelly

Unpapered

Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez

Baseball

Steven P. Gietschier

Baseball's Endangered Species

Lee Lowenfish

Road to Nowhere

Chris Donnelly

Jazz Age Giant

Robert F. Garratt

One Season in Rocket City

Dale Tafoya
Foreword by Sandy Alderson

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Erik Sherman

Little Poison

John Dechant

Space Age Adventures

Mike Bezemek

Toward a More Perfect Union

Edited by Charles E. Rankin

Losing Eden

Sara Dant
Foreword by Tom S. Udall

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

Chachi D. Hauser

Paige Towers

Terese Svoboda

Pamela Carter Joern

Edited by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Mine Mine Mine

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

The Ordinary Spaceman

Clayton C. Anderson

Foreword by Nevada Barr

Leo Durocher

Paul Dickson

No Place I Would Rather Be

Joe Bonomo
With a new epilogue by the author

Tris Speaker

Timothy M. Gay

Tales from the Deadball Era

Mark S. Halfon

Lefty O'Doul

Dennis Snelling
With a new epilogue by the author

The Called Shot

Thomas Wolf

When Women Ruled the Pacific

Joy Schulz

Recovering Women's Past

Edited by Séverine Genieys-Kirk

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975

Giusi Russo

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Bedross Der Matossian

Hoarding New Guinea

Rainer F. Buschmann

The Forgotten Diaspora

Travis Jeffres

Memory Wars

A. Lynn Smith

A Different Trek

David K. Seitz

The Begging Question

Erik Hansson
Foreword by Don Mitchell

Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900

R. Douglas Hurt

The Visible Hands That Feed

Ruzana Liburkina

The Beauty Hunters

Adil Babikir

Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives

Edited by Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons

Speculative Wests

Michael K. Johnson

California Dreams and American Contradictions

Monique McDade

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts

Julie Carr

Agents of Empire

James Robbins Jewell

The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000

John M. Findlay

The First Atomic Bomb

Janet Farrell Brodie

A Connected Metropolis

Maxwell Johnson

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado

Unsettling Agribusiness

LaShandra Sullivan

Transimperial Anxieties

José D. Najar

Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas

Edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen

From the Boarding Schools

Arnold Krupat

The Incarceration of Native American Women

Carma Corcoran

The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge

Sherman Coolidge and Grace Coolidge
Edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski

The Korean War Remembered

Michael J. Devine

Empire between the Lines

Elizabeth Stice

Bad Subjects

Jennifer J. Davis

Histories of French Sexuality

Edited by Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross

A Generation Removed

Margaret D. Jacobs

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

Paulette F. C. Steeves

Basket Diplomacy

Denise E. Bates
Epilogue by Chairman David Sickey, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana

Unfair Labor?

David R. M. Beck

Remembering World War I in America

Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi

French St. Louis

Edited by Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey, and Peter J. Kastor

From the UNP Blog

Remembering Mark Spitzer

It is with sadness that we share the news that Mark Spitzer, author and fish enthusiast, passed away on January 19, 2023. He began his career as a Writer in Residence for three years at the bohemian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, where he translated French criminals and misanthropes. He taught creative writing an [...]

Five novels by Mignon G. Eberhart return to print

With Mignon G. Eberhart’s detective novel The Mystery of Hunting’s End (Bison Books, 1998) chosen as the 19th One Book One Nebraska selection for 2023, the University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce five more of Eberhart’s beloved and foundational detective novels are returning to print for the first time in m [...]

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