This #GivingTuesday, Become a UNC Press Club Sustainer

It’s Giving Tuesday at UNC Press! To celebrate this national day of giving, UNC Press invites you to become a Sustainer of the UNC Press Club by signing up for automatic monthly giving through Network for Good on our website.

What is the UNC Press Club? The Press Club is a group of book lovers who, through their membership, help the Press recruit leading authors and make their publications available in numerous formats. As a nonprofit publisher, roughly 80% of the UNC Press budget comes from the sale of books. Private gifts from corporations, foundations, and individuals like you make up over 12% of our budget.

What’s in it for you?

• Press Club members get special invitations and access to UNC Press authors, news, and events.
• UNC Press is a not-for-profit business, so your gift is a charitable, tax-deductible gift.
• If you become a Sustainer before Wednesday, December 31, your name will be entered into a drawing for your choice of one of the “essential” UNC Press book sets listed below.

For what you might spend on a cup of coffee or lunch with friends, you can become a UNC Press Club Sustainer and be a part of our publishing excellence. Sign up today!

Essential UNC Press North Carolina Nature & Travel Books

• Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State’s Natural Communities, by David Blevins and Michael P. Schafale
• Farm Fresh North Carolina: The Go-To Guide to Great Farmers’ Markets, Farm Stands, Farms, Apple Orchards, U-Picks, Kids’ Activities, Lodging, Dining, Choose-and-Cut Christmas Trees, Vineyards and Wineries, and More, by Diane Daniel
• Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt, by Tom Earnhardt
• Hugh Morton’s North Carolina, by Hugh Morton
• Birds of the Carolinas, by Eloise F. Potter, James F. Parnell, Robert P. Teulings and Ricky Davis

Essential UNC Press Civil War Books

• Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Rod Andrew Jr.
• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust
• Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader, by Gordon B. McKinney
• A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War, by Daniel E. Sutherland

Essential UNC Press Religious Studies Books

• What Is Veiling? by Sahar Amer
• How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, with Select Translations, by Carl W. Ernst
• The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans
• Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, by Leonard Rogoff
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion, edited by Samuel S. Hill

Essential UNC Press African American Studies Books

• Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900, by Catherine W. Bishir
• African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina, by Sarah Bryan, Beverly Patterson and Michelle Lanier
• The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War, by David S. Cecelski
• The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860, by John Hope Franklin
• Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, by Heather Andrea Williams