Posted by
Ellen on
13 August 2010, 1:01 pm
We are delighted to announce that new and recent issues of the popular journal Southern Cultures are now available in ebook format. Light up your Kindle with the spring 2010 issue, the summer 2010 special “southern lives” issue, and the fall 2010 special roots music issue. (Check out all three issues at the UNC Press [...] 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
Posted by
matt on
22 April 2010, 8:13 am
On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day celebrations and teach-ins were held in Philadelphia, PA. Over the forty years since then, Earth Day has spread throughout the United States and around the globe, becoming an observed event in almost every nation worldwide. To recognize this important day, UNC Press would like to welcome author [...] Read more »
Posted by
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
20 November 2009, 2:51 pm
We love fan mail here at UNC Press. Who doesn’t, right? Fan mail from kids is extra awesome, though. Here’s something that really made our day recently. Eight-year-old Sydney C., of Asheville, North Carolina, was one of the guests at last month’s Asheville book party (which Rachel has blogged about). Sydney met Press authors Foy [...] Read more »
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Rose on
10 November 2009, 9:12 am
Creating lifetime readers is the goal and it’s all thanks to Pizza Hut. Wait, what? That’s right, you read me correctly. National Young Readers Week is an annual event that was co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Pizza Hut created The BOOK IT! Program [...] Read more »
Filed under Appalachian Studies, Current Events, Juvenile, folklore.
Tagged Adventures of Molly Whuppie, Ann Shelby, appalachian folktales, barbara duncan, BOOK IT!, Center for the Book, cherokee, Library of Congress, National Young Readers Week, oral traditions, Origin of the Milky Way, Pizza Hut
Posted by
admin on
16 July 2009, 1:02 pm
Looking for something new, fun and relatively inexpensive to do this summer? Several counties and towns in western North Carolina offer a variety of festivals, celebrations, and cultural events that feature bluegrass music, dance, and traditional food of Southern Appalachia. The festivals in western NC are a sample of what is offered all along the [...] Read more »
Filed under Appalachian Studies, Cooking / Food, Current Events, Events, Music, Native American Studies, North Carolina, Travel.
Tagged appalachian road trip, blue mountain inn, blue ridge mountains, bluegrass music, cherokee bluegrass festival, cherokee nc, clogging, country vittles restaurant, fiddle music, fred fussell, h. f. robinson, haywood county courthouse, haywood county nc, jam sessions, jo sam queen, lake junaluska, maggie valley opry house, mountain heritage center, mountain heritage day, mountain street dance, raymond fairchild, sam queen, scotch-irish, scots-irish, smoky mountain folk festival, smoky mountain jamboree, soco gap square dance team, southern appalachia, stuart auditorium, swain county nc, waynesville nc, western north carolina university
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admin on
25 March 2009, 4:03 pm
We’re mourning two great losses over here at the Press this afternoon. In addition to being UNC Press authors, both men were giants in their fields, and indeed helped establish and define new fields of scholarship. Both lived long, fulfilling lives in which their pioneering intellectual pursuits served the public good. Both gave of themselves [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Civil Rights, Labor Studies, North Carolina, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged african american history, archie green, folklore, john hope franklin, laborlore, musicologist
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admin on
28 October 2008, 2:00 pm
Three UNCP authors deserve special cheers for winning awards recently: Rob Christensen, author of The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics, has been awarded the 2008 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. The successor to the organization’s Mayflower Cup, the Ragan Old North State Award honors Sam [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Appalachian Studies, Awards, Civil Rights, Fiction, History, Juvenile, North Carolina, Politics, UNC Press News.
Tagged anne shelby, appalachian folktales, Civil Rights, juvenile fiction, north carolina politics, rob christensen, SNCC, virginia authors, wesley c hogan
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admin on
17 June 2008, 12:49 pm
The biggest annual trade show in the American book biz, BookExpo America was held in Los Angeles this year from May 29 to June 1. UNC Press had a double booth and featured several great books coming up on our Fall 2008 list. Pics of our booth and a peek at some forthcoming gems, after [...]
