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23 July 2010, 1:45 pm
Earlier this month the 12th annual Harlem Book Fair hosted a panel that included UNC Press authors Frank A. Guridy and Stephen Gillroy Hall. A video of the discussion, called “Can We Tell the Truth About the Black Past?”, is available through C-SPAN’s Book TV, which can be viewed here. Guridy is the author of [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, Cuba, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged 19th century, black diaspora, duke university press, frank guridy, harlem book fair, jim crow, stephen g. hall
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6 May 2009, 4:10 pm
We’ve got several authors out there making appearances online in various forms. If you’ve missed some of the live appearances in this busy spring, take a moment to follow-up virtually. In history… Russell McClintock, author of Lincoln and the Decision for War, was interviewed recently by Michael Noirot over at This Mighty Scourge. An excerpt [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil War, Cuba, Current Events, History, Interviews, Islamic Studies, Latin American/Caribbean Hist., Middle Eastern Studies, Native American Studies, Politics, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged amy wood, cocaine, gary bunt, islam, louis perez, lynching, michael noirot, native american religion, paul gootenberg, paul harvey, russell mcclintock, tisa wenger, us-cuba policy
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21 April 2009, 1:54 pm
New York, NY – Today! Tuesday 4/21 at 6 pm – Ann Marie Stock, author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (hot off the press!), will be speaking at the Havana Film Festival at the King Juan Carlos Center. Raleigh, NC – Wed., 4/22 at 11 am – Rob Christensen, [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Birds & Birding, Cooking / Food, Cuba, Events, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Local Indy Booksellers, Media Studies, Military Studies, Nature, North Carolina, Politics, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged ann marie stock, armchair birder, bbq, cuban filmmakers, dale volberg reed, E. Patrick Johnson, gerda lerner, giovannis room, havana film festival new york, holy smoke, john shelton reed, john yow, joshua howard, malaprops bookstore, monticello, temple beth or raleigh nc, thomas jefferson
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24 March 2009, 4:08 pm
If you’re in NC, you’ve got a couple chances to catch up with our busily touring authors this week. Tonight!!, Tuesday, March 24: Nancy Carter Crump, reception @ 5 pm, reading @ 5:45pm, Wilson Library UNC-CH. The author of Hearthside Cooking will be featured as part of the Southern Historical Collection Book Series, featuring authors [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Biography / Autobiography, Cooking / Food, Cuba, Events, Local Indy Booksellers, Military History, Military Studies, North Carolina, Politics, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged anna hayes, gerda lerner, josh howard, lars schoultz, nancy carter crump, quail ridge books, regulator bookshop
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4 December 2008, 5:11 pm
Louis A. Pérez Jr., a leading American scholar of Cuba and author of many prizewinning books on Cuban history — including his five most recent books published proudly by UNC Press — was celebrated by colleagues, friends, and family last month on his induction into the 2008 class of Fellows of the American Academy of [...] Read more »
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13 August 2008, 10:27 am
Have you seen the gorgeous jacket (designed by Rich Hendel) for Louis Perez’s new book? The New Yorker Books Department has, and they’re digging it! (There should be some joke here about judging a book, etc., but I’m going to say let’s just make those jokes quietly to ourselves and move on.) Lou Perez is [...] Read more »
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4 August 2008, 10:56 am
The XVII International AIDS Conference takes place this week (Aug 3-8) in Mexico City. This is the first time the bi-annual conference has been held in a Latin American city. As we learn from Shawn Smallman, author of The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America, Latin American countries represent a mosaic of policies, cultures, and infection [...]
