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Alyssa on
10 August 2010, 11:45 am
On July 26, a mural entitled SERVICE was dedicated at UNC’s School of Government in the Knapp-Sanders Building. The mural depicting a gathering of African-American figures from throughout North Carolina’s history seated at the counter of a diner was painted by Colin Quashie as a creative interpretation of the historic 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in. [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil Rights, North Carolina, Women's Studies.
Tagged charlotte messenger, civil rights movement, Ella Baker, james edward shepard, NAACP, nc central university, SERVICE mural, william c. smith
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Ellen on
1 July 2010, 9:55 am
Anne Raver of The New York Times takes a stroll through the gardens of Monticello, where director of gardens and grounds Peter Hatch reveals some of Thomas Jefferson’s trial-and-error (and error, and trial, and error) gardening history. The folks at Monticello restored Jefferson’s original 2-acre kitchen garden about thirty years ago, and have returned to [...] Read more »
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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
Posted by
Ellen on
3 May 2010, 1:37 pm
It is night. A lone black woman walks through a cornfield in South Carolina. The stars wink above her. Crickets and cicadas grow quiet as she passes and then resume their orchestral humming, now punctuated by the sound of rustling leaves a little farther off. She moves toward an unpainted one-room building. When she gets [...] Read more »
Posted by
Beth on
5 April 2010, 8:05 am
A Virginian, whose father was friends with Thomas Jefferson An accomplished orator, known for his sweet voice and famously aquiline nose Fathered fifteen children Named his estate on the James River “Sherwood Forest” after the setting of the Robin Hood tales, because he saw himself as a political renegade and outlaw Voted for Virginia’s secession [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil War.
Tagged 10th president, annexation of texas, confederate congress, edward crapol, imperialism, interpretation of the constitution, John Tyler, john tyler: the accidental president, states' rights, tenth president, virginia secession, whig party, william henry harrison
Posted by
Ellen on
10 March 2010, 3:48 pm
Today we celebrate the birthday of Lillian Wald (1867-1940), founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York’s Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Wald was a second-generation German Jewish immigrant who developed close associations with Jewish New York even as she consistently dismissed claims that her work emerged [...] Read more »
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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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Ellen on
8 March 2010, 2:00 pm
Have you heard? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has sponsored a bill to replace U.S. Grant on the $50 bill with Ronald Reagan. In an op-ed for the LA Times, Grant biographer Joan Waugh offers a brief history lesson in defense of the Union general and 18th President of the United States and cautions against further [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil War, Current Events, History, Politics, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged 50 dollar bill, joan waugh, rep. patrick mchenry, Ronald Reagan, U. S. Grant
Posted by
matt on
12 February 2010, 4:32 pm
Today, February 12th, 2010, marks the 101st anniversary of one of the nation’s most important organizations, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Because of today’s important nature, we want to focus on someone central to the organization’s success, as well as many more victories in the civil rights movement. Born in 1903, [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Civil Rights, History, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, HK on J 2010, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopled, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, SCLC, Shaw University, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Studen Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Ellen on
19 November 2009, 9:23 am
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark, Katherine Mellen Charron [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil Rights, Podcasts, TSoT, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged african american education, african american voting rights, citizenship schools, civil rights activists, freedom struggle, katherine mellen charron, septima poinsette clark
Posted by
Rachel on
28 October 2009, 3:08 pm
First, let’s set the scene: A little closer… Last Sunday, UNC Press held a book party at the historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. The event celebrated three of our fall 2009 titles: Foy Allen Edelman, author of SWEET CAROLINA, spent six years traveling every inch of North Carolina to collect the best in [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil Rights, Cooking / Food, Fiction, History, Literature, Local Indy Booksellers, Media Studies, Music, North Carolina, Recipes, Southern Studies, Travel, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged Asheville, Foy Allen Edelman, Give my Poor Heart Ease, Long Story Short, Marianne Gingher, Morgan Freeman, North Carolina authors, Sweet Carolina, The Grove Park Inn, William Ferris
Posted by
Ellen on
13 August 2009, 9:37 am
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 [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Guest Bloggers, History, Women's Studies.
Tagged annie oakley, belle starr, bloomer women, buffalo bill, calamity jane, deadwood, famous ohio women, frank bogardus, frank butler, lillian smith, may manning lillie, pawnee bill, phoebe ann moses, sells brothers circus, wild west, women and guns, women sharpshooters
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admin on
29 July 2009, 4:14 pm
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 [...] Read more »
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admin on
27 July 2009, 4:19 pm
Last week best-selling fiction writer E. Lynn Harris died at the age of 54. Harris’s closeted and openly gay black characters paved the way for a new and vibrant genre of popular literature with widespread appeal. Personally, Harris was a kind and generous man who sought to encourage and support other gay black writers, including [...]
Filed under African American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Guest Bloggers, Literature, Southern Studies.
Tagged basil henderson, down low, e. lynn harris, E. Patrick Johnson, gay black characters, gay black writers, invisible life, james baldwin, just ast i am, lgbt novels, regulator bookshop, Sweet Tea
