New This Week: April 8th
It’s Tuesday and you know what that means: new books! With three new books on Civil War history and a revised and expanded edition of a Tar Heel essential, you’ll want to keep scrolling to check out today’s new releases. Plus, our American History Sale is going on now which means you can save 30% on these titles, or any other UNC Press print books.
UNC A-Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University, Revised and Expanded Edition by Nicholas Graham, Cecelia Moore
In this revised and expanded edition, UNC A to Z offers more Carolina history than ever before. Covering everything from the Old Well and the Confederate monument to the COVID-19 pandemic and Roy Williams’s retirement, this book is a handy portable introduction to the nation’s first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill by A. Wilson Greene
“Greene’s well-written history of the Battle of Petersburg should be read by anyone interested in the American Civil War.”—Library Journal, STARRED review
“With the second volume of A Campaign of Giants, one of the field’s finest military historians returns to the subject he knows best. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, this book is a must-read for serious students of the war.”—Susannah J. Ural, Mississippi State University
Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era by Andrew Donnelly
Gender and American Culture Series
“From memoirs to dime novels to Henry James’s canonical writings, Donnelly excavates compelling evidence of same-sex desire during a period that most historians have rendered silent. Confederate Sympathies is a major contribution to both Civil War history and sexuality studies.”—Jim Downs, Gettysburg College
“With wit and striking originality, Confederate Sympathies reveals the tangled connections between same-sex friendship, homoeroticism, white supremacy, and partisan politics during and after the Civil War. Donnelly’s genuinely impressive research reinterprets familiar texts and introduces us to new ones, tracing an alternative history of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth century. The book greatly enriches our understanding of same-sex desire and the racial politics of the Civil War era.”—Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY
Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era by Alys D. Beverton
“Exceptionalism in Crisis masterfully demonstrates that citizens of the United States developed their understanding of republican nationalism through engagement with the outside world. Alys Beverton’s deep research into nineteenth-century print culture reveals that Americans in the United States constructed a unique national identity by comparing the progress of their republican experiment with that of Mexico. The American Civil War shattered assumptions of superiority in the USA. by suggesting that the United States and Mexico might share as many similarities as differences. Beverton’s work reminds us that . . . the potential fragility of democratic governments has troubled American political thinkers since at least the 1860s.”—Andre M. Fleche, author of The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
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