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Alyssa on
20 August 2010, 2:02 pm
Back in April we mentioned a call for papers for the inaugural edition of The Journal of the Civil War Era, a peer-review journal published in collaboration with UNC Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University. There’s been great response, and the issues are starting to take [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, American History, Civil War, History, Labor Studies, Law / Legal History, Political Science, Southern Studies, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged 19th century, civil war, History, Journal of the Civil War Era
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Ellen on
14 April 2010, 9:52 am
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced. (read the whole story here) When I saw the story yesterday headlined “Miss. county [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Current Events, Education, Guest Bloggers, History, Law / Legal History, Public Policy.
Tagged 1973 denver keyes decision, education policy, keyes violations, latino students, mississippi schools, neighborhood schools, office for civil rights, resegregation, school desegregation, school districts, supreme court, title vi of the 1964 civil rights act
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Ellen on
29 March 2010, 9:44 am
We welcome a guest post today from Joshua M. Dunn, author of Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins. Dunn’s book explores the 1987 case that became the federal court’s most expensive attempt at school desegregation: Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Current Events, Education, Guest Bloggers, History, Law / Legal History.
Tagged arthur benson, desegregation, Education, joshua m. dunn, judge russell clark, kansas city missouri school district, kansas city school board, minority students, missouri v. jenkins, segregation
Posted by
Ellen on
14 December 2009, 4:28 pm
We announced last January that UNC Press was one of four university presses awarded a Mellon grant for a collaborative project to publish books in indigenous studies. As part of the joint project, some of our colleagues have set up a blog for the First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies series. You can get [...] Read more »
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Ellen on
7 December 2009, 7:31 pm
Hearty congratulations to multiple UNC Press authors who have recently been honored by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources for their outstanding work in North Carolina history and culture. Anna Hayes was awarded the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction for Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp. The award is given [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Law / Legal History, Literature, Nature, North Carolina, Travel, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged ann cary simpson, anna hayes, bland simpson, judge susie marshall sharp, north carolina literary and historical association, north carolina literature, r hunt parker memorial award, ragan old north state award
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admin on
12 June 2009, 1:01 pm
We welcome a guest post today from Fay Botham, author of the forthcoming book Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law. In her book, Botham demonstrates how Christianity was important to both racist and antiracist movements in the 19th and 20th centuries and how those movements influenced litigation over matters of [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, Civil Rights, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Guest Bloggers, History, Law / Legal History, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged almighty god created the races, biblical interpretation, brown v board of education, chief justice earl warren, christian belief, discrimination, fay botham, heterosexism, interracial marriage, judge leon bazile, loving for all, loving v virginia, mildred jeter, mildred loving, miscegenation, racism, richard loving, same-sex marriage
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admin on
21 May 2009, 12:17 pm
Today I’m pleased to have a guest post from Lois Shepherd, author of If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Shiavo. Shepherd was a lawyer living in Tallahassee during the sensational days of the Schiavo case. Her book strips away the politics and semantics that tend to oversimplify the [...] Read more »
Filed under Ethics, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine, Law / Legal History, Public Policy.
Tagged barack obama, ellen goodman, health care costs, health care policy, health care reform, health care reimbursement, lois shepherd, medicare, rationing health care, terri schiavo
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admin on
19 May 2009, 9:12 am
From the Washington Post: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III may not be sued by a Pakistani man who was seized in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks and who alleged harsh treatment because of his religion and ethnicity. The [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Asian Studies, Civil Rights, Current Events, Law / Legal History, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged ashcroft v iqbal, attorney general, eric muller, fbi, iqbal, john ashcroft, muslim, pakistan, racial profiling, religious profiling, robert mueller, supreme court
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admin on
20 April 2009, 12:38 pm
April 14, 2009 proved to be a dark day for progress and equality in, ironically, one of the most liberal collegiate atmospheres in the country. Forty-six years after the highly controversial Speaker Ban law was passed, it seems that the UNC Chapel Hill finds itself once again in the spotlight. In 1963, the Speaker Ban [...] Read more »
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admin on
15 April 2009, 12:50 pm
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is narrowing in on the year’s best southern books. Here’s how they describe the process: Each year, hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite hand-sell books of the year. These are the Southern books they have most enjoyed selling to customers; the ones that they couldn’t stop [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Awards, Biography / Autobiography, Cooking / Food, Law / Legal History, Local Indy Booksellers, North Carolina, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged anna hayes, holy smoke, Independent Booksellers, john and dale reed, siba book awards, susie marshall sharp, without precedent
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admin on
14 April 2009, 1:01 pm
Upcoming author events, including a C-SPAN taping tonight! Today, Tuesday, 4/14: John & Dale Reed in Kernersville, NC - Shakespeare & Company Books in Kernersville hosts the authors of Holy Smoke at 6 pm. Lars Schoultz in Durham, NC – The author of That Infernal Little Cuban Republic will read and speak at the Regulator [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Birds & Birding, Cooking / Food, Events, History, Latin American/Caribbean Hist., Law / Legal History, Military History, Nature, North Carolina, Politics, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged abraham lincoln, anna hayes, backyard birding, battle of guilford courthouse, bbq, birding, bulls head bookshop, carolina college for lifelong learning, gerda lerner, john and dale reed, john yow, joshua howard, lars schoultz, lawrence babits, lynn coulter, nancy carter crump, regulator bookshop, russell mcclintock, salem college, shakespeare and company books kernersville
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admin on
18 November 2008, 10:51 am
On WUNC’s (91.5 FM Chapel Hill) The State of Things today at noon, Frank Stasio and a panel of guests will be discussing the legal and religious meanings of marriage in light of the passage of Prop 8 in California and similar amendments in other states. Guests will include UNC Press author E. Patrick Johnson, [...]
Filed under African American Studies, Civil Rights, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Law / Legal History, Podcasts, Politics, Religion, TSoT, Theatre, UNC Press News.
Tagged black gay men, california, civil unions, definition of marriage, gay marriage, marriage, prop 8, proposition 8, right to marry, Sweet Tea
