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In THE FENWAY EFFECT, David Krell chronicles the cultural impact of the Boston Red Sox on business, media, and the National Pastime with engaging stories and anecdotes about the team’s rich history.

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On the Backs of Others - Nebraska Press In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their relia...

"@edarmstonsheret.bsky.social offers a powerful critique of heroic narratives and provides a sophisticated framework for understanding how geographical knowledge was produced." - Journal of Historical Geography
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Written with lyricism and insight, THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD is a reckoning and a reclamation. While these personal narratives came from a desire to guide her daughters, their universal truths compel us to consider how we can guide our daughters.
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Ravelings - Nebraska Press In Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”—“to entangle”—as she explores the deaths and departures of loved...

"Her metaphors and insights are apt and moving, making this collection a joy." -Booklist

RAVELINGS by Lisa Knopp looks on life, change, and love through the eyes of a 60-year-old woman. Grab your own copy through the link below:
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How a Czech firefighter led the country to its first World Baseball Classic The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, “We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball,” which follows the story of how a team of amateur ballplayers from the Czech Republic reached the World Basebal...

"In 15, 20 years, if I save one person from a fire, my job is done.”

Czech firefighter Martin Schneider lives two lives. He's had to play hero in both of them.

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We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball - Nebraska Press Despite long odds and low funds, the Czech Republic’s national baseball team of amateur players managed to shock the world at the 2023 World Baseball Class...

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Invite Everyone into the Room: An Interview with Jill Christman - Chicago Review of Books A conversation with Jill Christman on her new memoir, "The Heart Folds Early"

"We all have wounds we return to again and again on the page...Grief is one of mine."

@gaylebrandeis.bsky.social's interview with @jillchristman.bsky.social on "The Heart Folds Early” @univnebpress.bsky.social is out now.
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This memoir hits hard.
So many aspects of it are relatable.
Congratulations to @univnebpress.bsky.social & Tim Hillegonds for creating a beautiful book.
After reading this book, I have a new courage to do something that I’ve avoided for years.

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There are just 5 days left to submit your manuscript to the 2026 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize! One winner in poetry and one winner in fiction will receive $3000 and publication through @univnebpress.bsky.social.

Contest closes March 15. Submit now: prairieschoonerbookprizeseries.submittable.com/submit

Check out Thomas C. Rust's review of Chas Henry's "Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy," published in 2025 by @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #disaster
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Life Beyond Fear: Why This Book Was Written Natalie Oceanheart is a trained psychologist and volunteer counselor. She immigrated to the United States in 2023 after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been awarded for her volunteer services and leadership by the Red Cross. Her new book Life Beyond Fear: A Ukrainian Woman’s Memoir (Potomac Books, 2026) was published this month. When you see the title of my book, your eye will stop on the name of the country on the cover, and you will immediately realize that this is a book about war.

Life Beyond Fear: Why This Book Was Written

Natalie Oceanheart chronicles the harrowing journey of a Ukrainian woman and her family, forced to flee their war-torn homeland in search of safety, hope, and a new beginning.

Land of Sunshine - Nebraska Press Although denied the right to vote, late nineteenth-century women writers engaged in debates over land settlement and expansion through literary texts in regi...

"Anderson's study suggests a productive template for future scholarship, which can leverage expanded, digital access to obscure periodicals to reconceive the ideological production of space through print culture."-American Periodicals

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"I wrote intensively in the years right after the abortion as I tried to hang onto another pregnancy, so that’s why the details of those years are so fresh and vivid in the book. I wrote them down." - Jill Christman
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News & Reviews Reviews When We Only Have the Earth Review in North American Review: "Waberi’s poems plead, reason, celebrate, demand, and yearn. Waberi’s language is an act of noticing. Carlson’s translation completely captures the concerns and voice of the poet. The rest of the conversation is up to the reader." Between the Wires Review in Slavic Review: "Beorn's book is a significant step towards change; his well-researched and judicious work not only gives voice to those silenced; it places Janowska more firmly on the map of the Holocaust."

News and Reviews featuring @abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social @waitmanwbeorn.com @ramcnally.bsky.social @tracibrynne.bsky.social @tracibrynne.bsky.social and more!

LIVING WEST AS FEMINISTS moves from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations. As Krista Comer travels over thirteen thousand miles, she has remarkable conversations focusing on questions about the where of women.
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Reviewed in NINE, Gerlach's LION OF THE LEAGUE was described as, "a book well worth the time of anyone interested in the early history of the National League [of Baseball]."
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Check out Cari M. Carpenter's novel, SELECTED WORKS OF ORA EDDLEMAN REED being reviewed in Western American Literature:
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Excerpt: Making the Miami Cubanita Paula Davis Hoffman is an adjunct professor of history at Houston City College. Her new book Making the Miami Cubanita: A Pop Cultural Genealogy (Nebraska, 2026) was published this month. At the end of the nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal glorified cubanas as “the most feminine and simple women in the world.” Ever since, the stereotype of Cuban femininity as chaste and dutiful has informed Cubans’ racial, social, and ethnic identity in the dominant American imagination, and this gendered and deracialized narrative has taken different forms and served various purposes throughout the Cuban diaspora.

Excerpt: MAKING THE MIAMI CUBANITA by Paula Davis Hoffman

This new book examines the cultural precepts and political aims underlying the construction of Cuban femininity in pop culture outlets produced by, for, and about Cuban Americans of the Cuban diaspora.

The essays in SELECTED MISDEMEANORS are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life.

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Stalking the Big Cat of Georgia, a new documentary series produced by Hal Jacobs and inspired by BIG CAT by @fourcrickets.bsky.social, is screening now!

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Announcing the Judge for the 2026 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Diane Seuss will be the judge for the 2026 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Photo credit to Gabrielle Montesanti. Diane Seuss is the author of six books of poetry, including Modern Poetry (2024), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize; and frank: sonnets…

We are happy to announce that @dseuss.bsky.social will be the judge for the 2026 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry Competition! Submissions will be accepted April 1-May 1.

DODGERLAND is an account of two memorable seasons of the late seventies Los Angeles Dodgers and a transformative, multilayered tale of Los Angeles in a time of promise unrealized and great potential squandered.

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For some Latinas, college is the first time they are immersed in American culture outside their homes. WISE LATINAS is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education.

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"A memoir keenly relevant to our times by a gifted writer," writes Brenda Barrera in a starred @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of AND YOU WILL CALL IT FATE. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

UNP Books on NetGalley 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! Peruse the forthcoming titles that are available on the platform this month: Northern Slave, Black Dakota WALT BACHMAN…

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"THE WIZARD OF COLLEGE BASEBALL provides a detailed backstory of one of the sport's most influential characters who, until now, has largely been overlooked," writes Willie Steele for NINE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

"READING THE CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR invites its readers to pursue the potential for dialogue and comparison across the fields, methodologies, and approaches with which it engages," writes Hannie Lawlor for Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...

We're so excited to share that DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA (@prairie-schooner.bsky.social) by Gbenga Adesina is a finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards! 🎉 bit.ly/4r4ijDF