Matt Pavelich has done something wondrous in The Harrows: A Novel of the American Century (Bar R Books, $24.95). This five-generation story of the Harrow family rolls off the pages with such liquid grace and poetic clarity that one feels a new Montana classic has...

UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books we gifted to loved ones this holiday season or are planning to read in the new year! "This year I am gifting my dad a copy of Rick Gosselin's The Team That History Forgot since he's a big Kansas City Chiefs fan.

Leslie Stainton has served on the board of directors of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table. She is a two-time Fulbright recipient and a former lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College. Stainton is the author of Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts and Lorca: A Dream of Life…

As we come to a close on this year, we're excited to share a preview of some of our forthcoming 2026 books. Save 50% on all pre-orders using code 6HLW25 during our Holiday Sale. Bummerland by Randolph Lewis In Bummerland (Bison Books, March) Randolph Lewis scours the soul of the country during the first Trump administration and pandemic era with a sharp eye and keen wit, looking for glimmers of democratic hope and redemption in America.

In his new book "The Team That History Forgot," sportswriter Rick Gosselin highlights the story of one of the most exciting professional football teams of the 1960s: the Len Dawson-led Kansas City Chiefs.

CAFe Speaker Series: “Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures”Nathan Sowry ...

UNP’s running and walking team, Footnotes, participated in the 25th annual Lincoln Track Club Holiday Run (1-mile and 5K) at Pioneers Park on Sunday, December 7. All proceeds (roughly $4000.00) went to the Capital Humane Society. #RunForBowWowsAndMeowsMeows I thought the windchill in the teens would deter participants but there was a very decent turn out and lots of cheerful faces. The Humane Society brought several cold hardy dogs who needed to be adopted and lots of runners and walkers showed up with their dogs.

There's an old saying that a conservative becomes a liberal after being accused of a crime, and a liberal becomes a conservative after becoming the victim of a crime. Author Jim Reese's new book Coming to a Neighborhood Near You: The Repercussions of Crime and Punishment turns that well-worn saw on its face.

The following is a letter from Jane Ferreyra, director of the University of Nebraska Press. To our UNP community of authors, readers, and supporters, As the year draws to a close, we’re looking back with gratitude—and forward with excitement. Because of your support, the University of Nebraska Press continues to do what few publishers can: bring rigorous scholarship, distinctive voices, and regional stories to readers everywhere.

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 ...

Anthony R. Pahnke is an associate professor of international relations at San Francisco State University and serves as the vice president of Family Farm Defenders. He is the author of Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement and Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform. His most recent book Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change (Nebraska, 2025) was published in November…

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.