Trending This Month: March 2024

Check out what’s trending at UNC Press with this list of the most viewed books on our website this month. See something that interests you? Our American History Sale is going on now so you can save 30% with the code 01UNCP30 at checkout.

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The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll

“An informative account of the theological dramas that underpinned and were unleashed by the Civil War. . . . This book’s substantive analysis belies its brevity. . . . This slim work of history is surprisingly timely.”—Publishers Weekly

“The best account and interpretation of how Christian ideas shaped, and were shaped by, the Civil War.”—Christianity Today

“Raises momentous questions for the history of American Christianity while offering . . . intriguing insights into an understudied aspect of our nation’s greatest civil ordeal.”—Books & Culture

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Revised and Updated Third Edition by Cedric J. Robinson With a new preface by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley

“A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought.”—Cornel West, Monthly Review

“Black Marxism has become an unlikely handbook for a new generation of radicals and activists.”—London Review of Books

Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway

“[Reading the Romance] is in a class by itself. It set[s] a standard for cultural studies, scarcely ever matched in subsequent work, of testing theories about the effects of mass culture with close study of the people presumably under its influence.”–Journal of American History

“A consistently absorbing and often brilliant analysis of [romance novels] and their eager consumers.”–Sandra M. Gilbert, New York Times Book Review

White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea butler

A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“This scathing takedown of evangelicalism’s ‘racism problem’ will challenge evangelicals to confront and reject racism within church communities.”—Publishers Weekly

“A concise history of the racism that structures white evangelical Christianity in America. . . . [The] clear and forceful synthesis provides a useful entry point for evangelicals and non-evangelicals alike seeking to learn the history and contemporary reality of white evangelical political power in the United States.”—Library Journal

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South by Barbara Krauthame

“Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”—Choice

“An important overview of the lives of African and African American peoples who played relevant, active roles in United States affairs, adeptly navigated tribal and United States federal bureaucracy, and effectively articulated their views on race and identity.”—Ohio Valley History

“In this compelling study Krauthamer successfully demonstrates black Americans’ struggle for their liberation and subsequent rights as citizens.”—Southern Historian