May 20, 2025

New This Week: May 20th

This week, we’re excited to release three thought-provoking new books that illuminate the complexities of belief, language, and identity in contemporary life. In Secular Sensibilities, Susan Friend Harding explores how secularism shapes moral and political discourse in the American South, offering a fresh lens on cultural transformation. Language and Life on Ocracoke by Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser captures the rich linguistic heritage… Continue Reading New This Week: May 20th

Categories New Books/North Carolina/Religion
May 15, 2025

Reading About Writing

The following is a guest post by Michael Amoruso, assistant professor of religious studies at Occidental College and author of Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil which is now available wherever books are sold. I had a hard time writing Moved by the Dead. This probably comes as no surprise. There’s a quote, often misattributed to… Continue Reading Reading About Writing

Categories Guest Bloggers/Religion
May 14, 2025

Secularization on Pause? Ambiguity in American Religious Life

The following is a guest post by Zaid Adhami, associate professor of religion at Williams College and author of Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith, publishing next week. “America’s secularization is on pause,” proclaimed the New York Time’s Lauren Jackson in a piece published last month inaugurating a yearlong project titled, “Believing.” The monthly newsletter is meant to probe the… Continue Reading Secularization on Pause? Ambiguity in American Religious Life

Categories Religion
May 13, 2025

New This Week: May 13th

Another week, another pub day full of exciting new titles. Deborah Mutnick’s No Race, No Country offers a profound reevaluation of Richard Wright’s literary and political legacy. Brett Taubman’s Southern Culture on the Fizz is a delightful guide to the rich tradition of fermentation in the American South. Lastly, Cold War Asia, edited by Hajimu Masuda, presents a groundbreaking anthology that explores the multifaceted experiences… Continue Reading New This Week: May 13th

Categories New Books
May 6, 2025

New This Week: May 6th

This week’s new books explore topics on violence in sports and American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines. Learn more about the two new books publishing today below or explore everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page. The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines by Justin… Continue Reading New This Week: May 6th

Categories New Books
April 24, 2025

Same-Sex Romance and the Retreat from Reconstruction

The following is a guest post from Andrew Donnelly, assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis and author of Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era, which is now available wherever books are sold.   The national retreat from Reconstruction—the abandonment, especially by white Northerners, in the face of white Southern resistance, of the… Continue Reading Same-Sex Romance and the Retreat from Reconstruction

Categories Civil War/Gender Studies/Guest Bloggers/LGBT Studies
April 23, 2025

A Celebration of William E. Leuchtenburg, and Introducing the Leuchtenburg Fund

The Leuchtenburg Family Welcomes You to a Public Celebration of William E. Leuchtenburg, 1922-2025Sunday, May 4, 2025, 3:00 p.m.National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC Established in 2025 by his family, the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at the University of North Carolina Press honors Bill’s decade-long membership on the Press’s Board of Governors and his preeminent scholarship… Continue Reading A Celebration of William E. Leuchtenburg, and Introducing the Leuchtenburg Fund

Categories UNC Press News
April 17, 2025

Welcome Caroline Mort, Open Access Journals Managing Editor

The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce the hiring of Caroline Mort to the newly created position of Open Access Journals Managing Editor. Mort served most recently in the Library Copyright Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will report to Journals Manager Stacy Lavin. In her new position, she will play a… Continue Reading Welcome Caroline Mort, Open Access Journals Managing Editor

Categories Journals/Open Access/UNC Press News
April 15, 2025

New This Week: April 15th

New week, New books! In this post we’re highlighting this week’s new releases on subjects such as African American Studies, Civil War, Religion, Native American/Indigenous Studies, and Mushrooms. If you see a title that interests you, save 30% with code 01UNCP30 during our American History Sale. A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas, Revised and Expanded Edition by Alan… Continue Reading New This Week: April 15th

Categories New Books
April 10, 2025

News from UNC Press: Retirement of Senior Executive Editor Mark Simpson-Vos

I’m writing today to announce that after nearly three decades of service to the university press community, Mark Simpson-Vos will be retiring this summer from UNC Press.  There’s not enough space here to capture the wide range of contributions Mark has made as an editor, mentor, and leader. As an editor, his range had almost no limits. He acquired countless… Continue Reading News from UNC Press: Retirement of Senior Executive Editor Mark Simpson-Vos

Categories UNC Press News
April 8, 2025

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… Continue Reading New This Week: April 8th

Categories Civil War/New Books
April 1, 2025

New This Week: April 1

Another Tuesday, another selection of new books! Check out this week’s new releases including Civil War; African American Studies; Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History; and travel/guidebook titles. Plus, as always, see everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page. The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South by Georgann Eubanks “The Fabulous Ordinary encourages… Continue Reading New This Week: April 1

Categories African American Studies/Civil War/Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History/Environmental Studies/New Books/Travel
March 31, 2025

The Omohundro Institute Welcomes a New Editor of Books

March 28, 2025—The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI and Associate Professor in the Department of History at William & Mary effective August 10, 2025. Heerman will join the OI Books team as Interim Editor of Books Nicholas Popper concludes three years… Continue Reading The Omohundro Institute Welcomes a New Editor of Books

Categories American History/Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Native American History/UNC Press News
March 28, 2025

“The Two Georges,” a Companion Book to the Library of Congress Exhibition, Explores the Lives of George Washington and King George III

Exhibition Draws from Collections of Library of Congress, Royal Archives, Royal Collection, the Science Museum Group, and More The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution is the first book to simultaneously explore in depth the lives and contributions of two globally significant figures of the late 18th century: George III (1738–1820), king of Great Britain, and George… Continue Reading “The Two Georges,” a Companion Book to the Library of Congress Exhibition, Explores the Lives of George Washington and King George III

Categories American History/Biography / Autobiography/Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History/European History/Military History/UNC Press News
March 27, 2025

2025 AWP Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at AWP 2025 – we hope you’ll stop by our booth (#1134) to say hello to editor Cate Hodorowicz and to browse our literary nonfiction titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Our Great Circle Books series has a new series editor! We… Continue Reading 2025 AWP Annual Meeting

Categories UNC Press News
March 27, 2025

Seeing Through the Lenses of Literature, Music, and Womanist Theology: A Q&A With Melanie R. Hill

The following is a Q&A with Melanie R. Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Global Racial Justice and Assistant Professor of American Literature at Rutgers University, Newark, and a classically trained gospel violinist, and author of Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music, publishing in April but available for pre-order now. What led you… Continue Reading Seeing Through the Lenses of Literature, Music, and Womanist Theology: A Q&A With Melanie R. Hill

Categories African American Studies/Religion/Women's Studies
March 26, 2025

Exploring Feminist Perspectives: Women’s History Month Reads From Our Gender and American Culture Series

Our Gender and American Culture series is full of books perfect to read during Women’s History Month or beyond. Guided by feminist perspectives, the series examines the social construction and influence of gender and sexuality within the full range of American cultures. Books in the series explore the intersection of gender with such markers of difference as race, class, and… Continue Reading Exploring Feminist Perspectives: Women’s History Month Reads From Our Gender and American Culture Series

Categories Gender Studies/Reading Lists/Women's Studies
March 25, 2025

New This Week: March 25th

We have two new books publishing this week. One looks at nineteenth-century law and literature and the other examines Black and Brown protest in post-civil rights America. Learn more about these titles below or visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new publishing this month. Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature… Continue Reading New This Week: March 25th

Categories African American Studies/New Books
March 25, 2025

Exploring History Through Women’s Lives: A Conversation with Lori Ginzberg and Jenny Shaw 

In this Q&A, historians Lori Ginzberg and Jenny Shaw discuss their latest books, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History and The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery, with W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, Debbie Gershenowitz. Their work uncovers the lives of women—both enslaved and free—across time, place, and social status,… Continue Reading Exploring History Through Women’s Lives: A Conversation with Lori Ginzberg and Jenny Shaw 

Categories UNC Press News
March 21, 2025

Public Health in the United States: A Reading List

As the first university press in the South, UNC Press pioneered in tackling issues of the day through the honest, and sometimes gritty, lens of reality, in order to challenge the status quo in a historically diverse and complex region. Our association with the oldest public university in the nation inspires in us a commitment to bring new and established peer-reviewed research… Continue Reading Public Health in the United States: A Reading List

Categories Health / Medicine/Politics/Public Policy/UNC Press News