Short answers, pulled from the story.
The University of Nebraska Press was founded in November 1941 at the prompting of Chancellor Chauncey Samuel Boucher, who hired Emily Schossberger as its first editor. It became the 32nd American university press and the seventh in the Midwest.
Bison Books is the trade imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, launched in 1961 as its first imprint. It originally focused on inexpensive paperbacks sold in non-traditional venues such as truck stops, drug stores, and gas stations, and later shifted its focus to the trans-Mississippi West in 2013.
The University of Nebraska Press has published more than 4,000 books since its founding in 1941, adding approximately 150 new titles each year. It also publishes thirty journals in both print and electronic editions.
The Bancroft Prize is the highest honor bestowed on history books in the United States. Three books published by the University of Nebraska Press have received the Bancroft Prize.
In September 2011, the University of Nebraska Press entered a collaborative publishing arrangement with the Jewish Publication Society, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 and is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English. UNP handles production, distribution, and marketing of JPS publications, including the NJPS Tanakh.
The University of Nebraska Press acquired Potomac Books in April 2013. Potomac Books had begun in 1983 as Brassey's, the U.S. imprint of a British military publishing enterprise, and was renamed Potomac Books in 2004 after being acquired by Books International in 1999.