Awards
The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas, by Robert M. Utley, was True West Magazine’s 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year.
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Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II, by James J. Kimble, was named the 2021 “One Book One Nebraska” title by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and the Nebraska Library Commission. Three of the four “One Book One Nebraska” finalists were UNP books, including The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays, by Lisa Knopp, and Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the “Omaha Star” Newspaper, 1938-1989 by Amy Helene Forss.
