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Ellen on
2 September 2010, 9:47 am
We welcome a guest post today from Susan Nance, author of How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1835. Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the “East,” such as the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing [...] Read more »
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Ellen on
23 August 2010, 3:09 pm
A Charlotte Observer story introduces a North Carolina man inspired by the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture to keep track of regional nicknames. Read more »
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Alyssa on
4 August 2010, 10:29 am
A few years ago I visited Italy with my family, sightseeing at the typical tourist destinations. The food scene was straight out of a movie: open air cafes lining the streets and fresh markets on every corner. When we traveled to a smaller town in the north, we noticed something we hadn’t seen in the [...] Read more »
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Alyssa on
20 July 2010, 4:16 pm
Startling statistics from a study done by the University of Memphis and USA Swimming have been reported: about 68.9 percent of African American children are unable to adequately swim, compared to 40 percent of white children with low swimming skills. While the disproportionate rates of swimming skills can be traced to early 20th-century segregation, the [...] Read more »
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Alyssa on
24 June 2010, 1:10 pm
When former President Bill Clinton was elected nearly 18 years ago, there was heated debate about gays serving in the United States military. Originally, a proposed federal law was to ban all gays from the armed services; Clinton rallied support for a compromise and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was born in 1993. Seven [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, Civil Rights, Cultural Studies, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Military History, Military Studies, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged Allan Berube, don't ask don't tell, gay and lesbian veterans, gay rights movement, Gay/Lesbian studies, gays in the military, steve estes, u.s. military
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Rachel on
16 June 2010, 8:50 am
Here’s the deal. I’m a dog. And I like to read and travel through time. A few weeks ago, the fine people at UNC Press gave me this nifty time machine. (They think the blue goggles will distract me from the fact that it’s made out of old UNC Press books held together with duct [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Cooking / Food, History, North Carolina, Southern Studies, UNC Press News.
Tagged Dan Pierce. Real NASCAR, dog reading, Foy Edelman, gus, Intellectual Life and the American South 1810-1860, Michael O’Brien, Sweet Carolina, The North Carolina Gazetteer, William Powell
Posted by
Ellen on
7 June 2010, 9:44 am
The Wall Street Journal‘s got a breezy and abbreviated history of the book all wrapped up in this entertaining six-minute video. Check it out: A fun, snappy little glimpse at a four-hundred-year history, no? But if you want the full history of books in America in all its juicy detail, you can find it in [...] Read more »
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Alyssa on
27 May 2010, 10:58 am
Alan Jabbour, who authored Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians with his wife Karen Singer Jabbour, provides some insight to a grassroots ritual that led to the creation of a federal holiday. –alyssa Many rural community cemeteries in western North Carolina hold “decorations.” A decoration is a religious [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Author blog entry, Cultural Studies, Guest Bloggers, North Carolina, Southern Studies, folklore.
Tagged appalachian cemeteries, appalachian culture, appalachian mountain customs, appalachian traditions, blandford cemetery, cemetery decorations, confederate memorial day, decoration day, dinner on the ground, folklorist alan jabbour, fontana lake, general john a. logan, grand army of the republic, great smoky mountains national park, ladies memorial association, mary logan, memorial day, petersburg virginia, union veterans
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Ellen on
5 May 2010, 1:10 pm
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans is more than a book we’ve just published — it’s a multimedia project based on interviews with dozens of female military veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book juxtaposes 48 photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Gender Studies, Military History, Women's Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, Iraq, Laura Browder, sascha flaeging, women combat veterans, women in the military
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matt on
14 April 2010, 2:47 pm
Though the American Civil War was a multi-year event, spanning four years of death and destruction, it seems to be most tied to the month of April. The cruel month was host to the first battle of the war, at Fort Sumter, as well as the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865. However, the most [...] Read more »
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matt on
31 March 2010, 8:47 am
Since March is coming to an end, and April is going to be a busy month here on the Press Blog, this is going to be the last post in our series of books for National Women’s History Month. So far, we’ve covered some important books on topics like women at war, the role of [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, History, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged American Revolution, Building a Housewife's Paradise, capitalism, childbirth, consumption, fertility, food, grocery store, National Women's History Month, Revolutionary Conception, supermarket, Susan Klepp, Tracey Deutsch, women
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matt on
18 March 2010, 11:09 am
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 [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, History, Literature, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged barbara sicherman, books, Edith Hamilton, Ida B. Wells, literacy, Megan Sweeney, National Women's History Month, prison, Reading is my Window, Well-Read Lives
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Ellen on
9 March 2010, 10:52 am
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 [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Interviews, Music, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged ann petry, barbara sicherman, books, bruce springsteen, cynthia ozick, fred sonic smith, jo march, little women, louisa may alcott, patti smith, reading, robert mapplethorpe, sam shepard, simone de beauvoir
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matt on
24 February 2010, 4:32 pm
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 Wrongs: [...] Read more »
Filed 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.
Tagged Billy E. Barnes, Change Comes Knocking, James Leloudis, Long Civil Rights Movement, North Carolina Fund, Robert Korstad, Terry Sanford, To Right These Wrongs
Posted by
Ellen on
16 February 2010, 4:01 pm
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. [...]
Filed under American History, American Studies, History, North Carolina, Southern Studies, Sports, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged alexander winton, arthur mcdonald, autocar, barney oldfield, bowman gray stadium, christie, dale earnhardt, darracq, daytona 500, daytona beach, de dietrich, fiat, ford, humpy wheeler, louis chevrolet, mark martin, mercedes, napier, nascar, peerless, ransom olds, renault, the intimidator, tony stewart, victory hemery, vincenzo lancia, william j. morgan, willie k. vanderbilt, winter speed carnival, winton, world speed records
