Reacting to the Past Game Books: Now Available from UNC Press

As previously announced, starting this month UNC Press is proud to be the publisher of Reacting to the Past ™ game books, an award­–winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning. Originally developed under the auspices of Barnard College, today they are created and sustained by the Reacting Consortium of colleges and universities.

New titles are forthcoming Spring 2023; following is a roundup of highlights from the series.


Changing the Game: Title IX, Gender, and College Athletics
By Kelly McFall & Abigail Perkiss

Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman
By Mary Jane Treacy

Mexico in Revolution, 1912-1920
By Jonathan Truitt & Stephany Slaughter

Forest Diplomacy: Cultures in Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1757
By Nicolas W. Proctor

Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791
Second Edition
By Jennifer J. Popiel & Mark C. Carnes

Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty
By Jace Weaver & Laura Adams Weaver


About the Reacting Consortium: The Reacting Consortium is a nonprofit consortium of institutions and individual instructors, whose mission is to promote imagination, inquiry, and engagement as foundational features of teaching and student learning in higher education through the development and dissemination of Reacting to the Past ™ role-playing games