October 17, 2024

Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

Congratulations are in order for Marlene L. Daut, Sara E. Johnson, and Emily A. Owens, three of the four finalists—published by the University of North Carolina Press, and by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press—for the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,… Continue Reading Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

Categories African American History/African American Studies
October 15, 2024

New This Week: October 15th

Another week, another batch of new books publishing. Today we have books spanning topics on segregation scholarships in the US south, teen pop culture at the turn of the twenty-first-century, and North Carolina Politics. Find your next favorite read among these new titles or browse our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners,… Continue Reading New This Week: October 15th

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/New Books/North Carolina/Political Science
October 8, 2024

New This Week: October 8th

Celebrate the delicious fusion of Jewish and Mexican culinary traditions or learn about how native North Americans sparked a communications revolution through inscription with our two new books that publish today. Check out today’s new books or visit our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month. Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook by By Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle;… Continue Reading New This Week: October 8th

Categories Cooking / Food/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/New Books
October 1, 2024

New This Week: October 1

It’s New Books Tuesday and from a graphic history of reconstruction in DC to a new Reacting to the Past game book, we have an exciting list of new titles publishing today. Browse this week’s new books below and be sure to sign up for our monthly enews for updates on everything new each month. Freedom Was in Sight!: A… Continue Reading New This Week: October 1

Categories UNC Press News
October 1, 2024

Jimmy Carter Celebrates his 100th Birthday

Today Jimmy Carter becomes the longest-lived former US President in history as he celebrates his 100th Birthday. In honor of this we’re traveling back the 39th President’s inauguration on January 20th 1977 with this excerpt from the second edition of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter by Randall Balmer. Refreshingly concise…. Balmer presents Carter as an icon of progressive evangelicalism.… Continue Reading Jimmy Carter Celebrates his 100th Birthday

Categories Excerpts
September 30, 2024

Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief

The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina, as well as the other southern states that are impacted by this historic storm. Countless authors, series editors, UNC system school colleagues at UNC Asheville, Appalachian State University, and Western Carolina University, bookstores, as well as press staff members… Continue Reading Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief

Categories UNC Press News
September 27, 2024

Upcoming Tour Dates with Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration”

Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, one of the foremost experts on Black education in the United States and the South, will be touring this fall (in-person, unless noted as virtual) to discuss her new book A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, which UNC Press will publish in its John Hope Franklin Series in African American… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration”

Categories UNC Press News
September 26, 2024

2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#7 in the Sternwheeler Room) to say hello to editors Andrew Winters & Dawn Durante and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always… Continue Reading 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting

Categories UNC Press News
September 25, 2024

David Menconi on Working with Art Director Lindsay Starr

The following is a reblog from Losering Books, a blog by David Menconi, author of Oh, Didn’t They Ramble, Step it Up and Go, and editor of our American Music: New Roots series. It came about due to luck-of-the-draw happenstance, but I’ve sort of had my very own personal book-cover designer for most of my university-press writing career. That’s Lindsay Starr, currently… Continue Reading David Menconi on Working with Art Director Lindsay Starr

Categories UNC Press News
September 24, 2024

New This Week: September 24th

It’s Tuesday and that means we have new books publishing! This week we’re excited to celebrate the release of two new books: A lyrical memoir of North Carolina’s Piedmont region and an analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Learn more about… Continue Reading New This Week: September 24th

Categories Creative Nonfiction/Cultural Studies/Travel
September 17, 2024

New This Week: September 17th

Another week, another New Books Tuesday! This week we’re celebrating the release of TANGLED JOURNEYS, an ambitious historical narrative that tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that invites us into the process of American history making itself. Learn more about the book below and browse all of our new books this month here. Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History… Continue Reading New This Week: September 17th

Categories African American Studies/Women's Studies
September 13, 2024

Upcoming Tour Dates with Kate Masur, author of “Freedom Was in Sight!”

Leading historian and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Kate Masur will be touring (in-person, unless noted as virtual) to discuss Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region. Gorgeously illustrated by award-winning artist Liz Clarke, this graphic history draws on the words and experiences of people who lived during Reconstruction to powerfully show how the Civil War… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Kate Masur, author of “Freedom Was in Sight!”

Categories UNC Press News
September 11, 2024

Memorializing 9/11: An Excerpt from “Divided by Terror”

Today, 23 years after the attacks on 9/11, we’re reflecting back to some of the earliest commemorations in New York City with this excerpt from Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11 by John Bodnar. You can also read a Q&A with John Bodnar and Executive Editor, Debbie Gershenowitz here. New York City The earliest commemorations of the terrorist attacks on… Continue Reading Memorializing 9/11: An Excerpt from “Divided by Terror”

Categories American Studies/Excerpts/Political Science
September 9, 2024

Five Books to Read this Hispanic Heritage Month

Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th – October 15th every year to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans and celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries. We’re proud to publish a wide selection of Hispanic and Latin American titles, including two book series (Latinx Histories and Latin America in Translation) as… Continue Reading Five Books to Read this Hispanic Heritage Month

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./Latino Studies/Reading Lists
September 4, 2024

New This Month: September 2024

Happy September! With the first day of fall at the end of the month, now is the perfect time to start filling up your shelves for some cozy fall reading. Luckily, we have a great selection of new books publishing this month. Check out our September releases below or browse everything new this season in our Fall/Winter Catalog. Plus, if… Continue Reading New This Month: September 2024

Categories African American Studies/Cultural Studies/Health / Medicine/North Carolina/UNC Press News
September 3, 2024

In Memoriam: Distinguished Historian Peter S. Carmichael

We are saddened by the passing of Professor Peter S. Carmichael, a remarkable historian who made significant contributions in the field of Civil War studies. UNC Press is honored to have worked with him on many projects over the years, including most recently The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher. The new fall issue… Continue Reading In Memoriam: Distinguished Historian Peter S. Carmichael

Categories Civil War/History/UNC Press News
August 27, 2024

New This Week: August 27th

It’s Tuesday and you know what that means: new books! Today’s new books include a book that explores the University of Georgia’s long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it and a new book in our envisioning Cuba series. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the… Continue Reading New This Week: August 27th

Categories African American Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
August 20, 2024

New This Week: August 20th

It’s New Books Tuesday and we have two new books that are now officially on sale wherever books are sold. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by by Margaret Humphreys “Humphreys has written a superb biography that makes a… Continue Reading New This Week: August 20th

Categories African American Studies/Appalachian Studies/Sociology/Southern Studies/UNC Press News
August 14, 2024

Black Women’s Humor in the Cultural Marketplace: An Excerpt from “Sass”

Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor—and particularly sass—functions as a tool for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political marginalization. The following is an excerpt from Sass: Black Women’s… Continue Reading Black Women’s Humor in the Cultural Marketplace: An Excerpt from “Sass”

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Women's Studies
August 6, 2024

New This Month: August 2024

Happy August! This month marks the start of our Fall/Winter 2024 season and we’re excited to share some of the great titles we have lined up. Scroll down to browse all of the new books publishing this month, including a bunch of new paperbacks or browse our full Fall/Winter Catalog to see everything that’s coming this season. Sass: Black Women’s Humor and… Continue Reading New This Month: August 2024

Categories New Books