Jeff Goldberg was the UConn women’s basketball writer for the Hartford Courant from 2001 to 2006 and is the author of Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women’s Basketball Classic (Nebraska, 2011) and Unrivaled: UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women's Basketball (Nebraska, 2015). I found myself recently making one of those observations that causes you feel every bit of your age, which at 57, can really pack a wallop.

David Benac is Chair of the Department of History and associate professor at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Conflict in the Ozarks: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Courtois Hills. His new book Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing (Nebraska, 2026) was published in June. Why write a history of Rainforest Action Network?

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 on the big screen. From a new adaptation of a popular children’s series to a documentary about our national mammal, these books, films, and TV shows are the perfect excuse to lounge indoors as we approach the dog days of summer.

Home Front Studies invites submissions for the inaugural New Voices Prize in Home Front Studies, an annual essay competition recognizing innovative scholarship on civilian life and communities duri…

Shop our annual SUMMER READING SALE! Whether you’re interested in history, poetry, sports, memoir, or want to find that perfect gift—save 50% on thousands of our books, including our imprints Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books. Just enter 6SUMM26 in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click “Apply.”  Offer expires July 31, 2026 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Browse the sale.

Michael W. Childers is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University. He is the author of Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement, winner of the Internation…

“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 —Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America On May 8, 2026, Montana’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rescinded grazing permits for seven allotments where bison have grazed freely since 2005, in Phillips County, Montana.

We are excited to share that Bedross Der Matossian was named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Near Eastern Studies! The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.

The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the recent partnership with The Georgia Review to publish the Georgia Review Books series. Georgia Review Books showcases work that, per The Georgia Review mission statement, “challenges us to reconsider any line, distinction, or thought in danger of becoming too rigid or neat, so that our readers can continue the conversations in their own lives.” The series editor is Gerald Maa, director and editor of…

Looking to add to your library? Come shop UNP’s office overstock at the Dirty Book Sale. Open to students and the public alike, each book will be available for $5, or you can fill a bag with books for $20! A wide selection of titles will be available from all genres and disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary fiction, creative nonfiction, biography, poetry, and groundbreaking research in Women and Gender Studies, Native American Studies, Literary Criticism, and more.

The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1. The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication of the book by the University of Nebraska Press under its imprint, Backwaters Press. The judge for the 2026 contest is Diane Seuss, the author of six books of poetry, including…

UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 4-7 in Baltimore, Maryland. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Visit us at booths 1069/1071 to browse our books and journals! Attending the conference virtually or can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit 

“For baseball fans, the University of Nebraska Press is a perennial MVP—most valuable publisher.” —George F. Will Steal some savings and save 40% on these baseball books! Enter coupon code 6BAB26 in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click “Apply.” Offer expires June 12, 2026 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Shop Now!

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Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortun...

Sarah Kee is the Publicity Assistant at UNP and compiles the Staff Reading List every month. Rebecca Jefferson is the Marketing Associate at UNP, editor of the Behind the Book blog, and has never taken a statistics class. As the year comes to a close, we're excited to share our staff reading wrapped containing fun highlights pulled from our monthly staff reading list, spanning December 2024 to November 2025.

Rosemary Sekora is the Marketing and Sales Manager for UNP. Our books and journals were read, cited, reviewed, circulated, purchased, borrowed, and shared across platforms this year. And not just in the traditional outlets! One was made into a documentary, one celebrated a 50th anniversary, one was displayed in Times Square in New York, one was seen onscreen…

Looking for holiday gifts or want to add to your own library? Come shop UNP’s office overstock at Books in the Barrel Room! Bring your own shopping bag and enjoy $4 pints from White Elm Brewing Company while you shop. Advance ticket: $25 a bag + 30 minute early entry At the door: $5 a book or $30 a bag…

The Heart Folds Early is a story of transformation through tragedy, and an examination of the way in which great loss can make us simultaneously fearful and ...

Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and n...

Happy Holidays from the University of Nebraska Press! Great books make great gifts, so for the rest of the year, until December 31, 2025, our entire catalog is available for 50% OFF. This sale includes over 4,000 books, so there’s something for everyone. Just enter 6HLW25 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click Add Promotion Code when making your purchase. Shop Now!

The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of native rituals and beliefs, the books presented here are all 50% OFF and represent our most recent offerings in this ever-expanding discipline.

What book will all Nebraskans be encouraged to read in 2026? We will all find out on November 15th at the Nebraska Celebration of Books (N.COB) literary festival. A mesmerizing...

This year Heartland Fall Forum is in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 14-16, 2025. Heartland Fall Forum is the premiere gathering place for those interested in independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. The event is hosted jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. Find UNP at tables 121-122 in the Exhibitor's Hall for your next read; we look forward to seeing you! Click here for the full schedule of events.