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Encountering Palestine sits at the intersection of cultural and political geographies, offering reflections on colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel.

Available in person at #HMLondon2025 or online ⬇️
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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In Search of Virginia Faulkner. How I came to write my first book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, coming in January from the @univnebpress.bsky.social. It all began 17 years ago on NeglectedBooks.com.

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November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Today's UP Week blog tour asks "WHY does your press #TeamUP?"

On the blog, @jacobflaws.bsky.social, author of SPACES OF TREBLINKA, discusses the importance of accessible scholarly work in our current media ecosystem.
UP Week: WHY does your press #TeamUp?
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year's theme for UP Week is "Team UP," to celebrate the ways that university presses and their authors Team UP with a vast network of reviewers, booksellers, freelancers, translators, librarians, teachers, and students to advance knowledge and understanding.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'NAZIS AT THE WATERCOOLER by @tcraigpetty.bsky.social has both intellectual and emotional resonance and stands as a meaningful contribution to the expanding body of scholarship on the enduring legacies of the Third Reich," writes Mikkel Dack for @hnetreviews.bsky.social. bit.ly/43WdfII
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy University Press Week! Each year, we take a tour of the blogs in our larger community with a series that daily addresses different aspects of the UP Week theme.

The #UPweek blog tour today asks "WHO TeamsUP for your Press?"
UP Week: WHO #TeamsUP for your Press?
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year's theme for UP Week is "Team UP," to celebrate the ways that university presses and their authors Team UP with a vast network of reviewers, booksellers, freelancers, translators, librarians, teachers, and students to advance knowledge and understanding.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain 'n' Books

Wilder is author of THE LAST COWS which explores the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranching in the American West.
From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain ’n’ Books
Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, coauthor of Forbidden Talent, with Redwing T. Nez, and editor of Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest, volumes 1 and 2.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
POSITIVE POLLUTIONS AND CULTURAL TOXINS by John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living, arguing for a recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the world.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
OUR PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EDUCATION is the story of a tribe and university—with almost nothing in common aside from a shared name—that collaborated to support Indigenous language and cultural revitalization.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Adesina runs through one genre and narrative angle after another in his studies of his life’s most pressing absences," writes @literaryhub.bsky.social of DEATH DOES NOT END AT SEA. bit.ly/3WC5aoF

 
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
TAKING CHARGE, MAKING CHANGE by Robert W. Galler Jr. shows how individuals and families helped to found the Crow Creek Tribal school, maintain enrollment, secure funding, and influence school policies.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THE GREATER PLAINS tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them

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November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The press' annual Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale has begun! Throughout November, get 50% off all Native Studies titles from Nebraska and Bison Books using code 6NAT25.

Learn more 👇
Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale 2025
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.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"There is much to gain from African knowledge, not least an understanding of how one's ancestors can bless a life. We learn as much from Nigerian poet Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto," writes Foreword of THE NAMING.

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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New book from @jasonhdormady.bsky.social through @univnebpress.bsky.social:

Conflict and Correspondence: Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939–1947

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November 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

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November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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From Chernobyl with Love is 6 today! @univnebpress.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Conflict and Correspondence is now available from the @univnebpress.bsky.social in hard, soft, and digital. #academicsky #Mexico #Urban #Guadalajara #belonging #conflict #cities Learn how tapatios found belonging through conflict in mid-century Mexico.

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November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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New arrival from @univnebpress.bsky.social! I highly recommend this innovative look on Peru’s history by Gonzalo Romero.
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Excerpt: WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY by Shann Ray

A novel in five novellas, WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY offers a prismatic deep dive into the human heart through fierce narratives of intimacy both lovely and heartbreaking.
Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly
Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of the story collection American Masculine, winner of numerous prizes including the American Book Award; the novel American Copper; and the poetry collection Atomic Theory 7. Ray grew up in Alaska and on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeast Montana. Ray's most recent book…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
DREAMS OF A YOUNG REPUBLIC examines American Catholic missionaries’ perceptions and expectations for a China that would forever be free and democratic, between the 1911 revolution that created the Republic of China and the communist revolution of 1949.

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October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM