University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Big House on the Prairie
75 Years of the University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 2016 the University of Nebraska Press celebrates its 75th anniversary. Proudly rooted in the Great Plains, the Press has established itself as the largest and most diversified publisher located between Chicago and California. The achievements of a vast network of devoted authors, editors, board members,...
by William H. Beezley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating...
Dream Like a Champion
Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Since becoming the Nebraska women’s volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to four national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appearances, and the nation’s top winning percentage in women’s volleyball. In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the coaching and leadership philosophy...
Nebrasketball
Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When fall rolls into winter, most sports fans in Nebraska long for spring football. But Coach Tim Miles has given hibernating fans a reason to cheer through winter for the first time in twenty years. Since taking over the men’s basketball program in 2012, Miles has gone from being relatively unknown...
by James C. Olson, Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award and The Home Place, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.
The Origins of the Final Solution
The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
In 1939, the Nazi regime’s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and...
Forever Red
Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
Black Print with a White Carnation
Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha’s Near North Side—a historically black part...
Forever Red
More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
Sandoz Studies, Volume 1
Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family’s remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail...
Echo of Its Time
The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Throughout its existence the Federal District Court of Nebraska has echoed the dynamics of its time, reflecting the concerns, interests, and passions of the people who have made this state their home. Echo of Its Time explores the court’s development, from its inception in 1867 through 1933,...
Moments of Impact
Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University, respectively. At a time when the overwhelming majority of their opponents and teammates...
by Mildred R. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The World of Willa Cather describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather’s best novels and short stories. It offers material that can be found nowhere else. Here are Willa Cather of Red Cloud, her family and friends, and the things that formed her sensibilities.