Archive for 'American Studies'
National Women’s History Month: By the Book
Two weeks ago, I blogged here about National Women’s History Month, making the first in a series of posts about new and recent books available from UNC Press focusing on the lives of women. That entry featured books that looked at the lives of American women in the Civil War and women returning from tours [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, History, Literature, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
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Louisa May Alcott and the Godmother of Punk
We love it when new UNC Press books seem to be in conversation with other books of the moment. Take Patti Smith’s acclaimed new memoir, Just Kids (HarperCollins 2010), which offers an inside look at the punk pioneer’s artistic influences and collaborations, including Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Shepard, and Fred “Sonic” Smith–all [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Interviews, Music, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
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To Right These Wrongs: A Groundbreaking Project
The first few books from UNC Press’ Spring|Summer 2010 catalog made it to bookshelves this month, and many more will be debuting in the coming months. One of the books we’re excited to publish, in partnership with Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, is Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis’ To Right These [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under African American History, African American Studies, American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Civil Rights, Film, History, North Carolina, Public Policy, Southern Studies, UNC Press News.
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Real NASCAR in Real Time: Dan Pierce is blogging!
Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France, by Daniel S. Pierce, is hot off the press and hitting bookstores now. If you’re a racing fan or southern history buff, this book is the can’t-miss backstory behind what has become a billion-dollar industry and one of the most popular spectator sports in America. [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2010 under American History, American Studies, History, North Carolina, Southern Studies, Sports, UNC Press Authors.
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Ira Glass at the mic and on the page
AND NOW . . . the story of a regular man whose job is to find the Big Ideas peeking out from the small foibles and successes of our everyday lives . . . the story of a man who helps us not only to hear them, but also to feel them.
Act I, Scene I
Ira [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under American Studies, Events, Media Studies.
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Andrew Finstuen on Obama’s Civil Faith
Over at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, Andrew Finstuen offers a response to the spiritual tones within President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, noting that the president summoned a unifying “civil faith” to lead the country through challenging times. Finstuen is author of Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under American Studies, Current Events, Politics, UNC Press Authors.
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LaGarrette Blount, Video Games, and Athletes’ Rights
We welcome a guest post today from Michael Oriard, whose most recent book is Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era, which we will publish this November. He recently blogged about the scholarly obligation of the “scholar-athlete” arrangement in college sports over at the New York Times’ college sports blog, [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2009 under American Studies, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Sports.
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Happy Birthday, Annie Oakley
A guest post today from Laura Browder, author of Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America and the forthcoming (May 2010) When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, which features photographs by Sascha Pflaeging.
Let’s take a moment today to celebrate the 149th birthday of Annie Oakley. But let’s remember her not [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2009 under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Guest Bloggers, History, Women's Studies.
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Michael Jackson and a Lifetime of Celebrity
Last month, the passing of Michael Jackson sent people all across the globe into mourning. From his most loyal listeners to even those too young to remember Jackson the musician but instead Jackson the punchline to jokes, the outpouring of respect for one person was unparalleled in this decade. In the following guest post, Charles [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Media Studies, UNC Press Authors.
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Check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Wash., D.C.!
Looking for an inexpensive get-away this summer? Well, you’re in luck. Now through July 5th on the National Mall in Washington DC is the annual cornucopia of world culture–the Smithsonian Folklife Festival! The best part about it? IT’S FREE!
This year one of the festival’s three themes is Wales which, of course, reminded me of the [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2009 under American Studies, folklore.
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Judith Walzer Leavitt on The State of Things today
Judith Walzer Leavitt, who guest blogged for us yesterday, will be appearing on WUNC’s The State of Things today with Frank Stasio, discussing the evolving role of fathers in the childbirth process. The show starts at noon (eastern) and Judy’s segment will begin around 12:40. You can listen to the show online or download a [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2009 under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Interviews, Podcasts, TSoT, UNC Press Authors.
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Dads in scrubs: now assisting in a delivery room near you!
Today’s guest post is from Judith Walzer Leavitt, author of the recently released Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. In her book, Leavitt follows the history of how expectant fathers, over the course of the twentieth century, gradually shifted from twiddling their thumbs in the waiting room to coaching [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine.
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I would do aaaanything for you
. . . but I won’t do that.
So, maybe (?) you’ve never greeted your spouse at the door wearing nothing but Saran Wrap. But what would you do if you thought it would help your relationship? What would you expect your partner to do to keep you around?
Kristin Celello, author of Making Marriage Work and [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2009 under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Interviews, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
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In memoriam, Archie Green (1917-2009)
I wrote briefly last week (in rather vague terms) about some of Archie Green’s accomplishments. Over the weekend, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times both published lengthy obituaries. I wanted to offer a more personal glimpse of him here from a longtime friend and colleague of Green’s, Robert Cantwell. In 2001 UNC Press [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2009 under American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Guest Bloggers, Labor Studies, UNC Press News, folklore.
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Robert McElvaine on The News Hour: reconsidering consumption
I’ve posted a couple of items recently (here and here) about the renewed relevance in these painful economic times of Robert McElvaine’s classic collection of letters written to FDR, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man.
On Friday, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer aired a wonderful segment featuring McElvaine and [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under American History, American Studies, Current Events, Economics, Interviews, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
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