November 21, 2024

The Pritikin Program’s Influence on American Dietary Guidelines

The Following is a guest post from Travis A. Weisse, author of Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness, which is available now wherever books are sold. Occupying the unenviable liminal space between charlatanism and unserious gossip magazine fodder, diet gurus are not typically treated as serious historical figures. Yet, as my book Health Freaks shows, a fair… Continue Reading The Pritikin Program’s Influence on American Dietary Guidelines

Categories Cultural Studies/Guest Bloggers/Health / Medicine
November 20, 2024

Bibliographical On-Sendings and Dentdale Waterfalls 

The following is guest post from Andy Martrich, author of Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books, which is now available wherever books are sold. Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through its Missing Books is a book about the legendary writer’s… Continue Reading Bibliographical On-Sendings and Dentdale Waterfalls 

Categories Guest Bloggers/Literature
November 19, 2024

New This Week: November 19th

Looking for a good read that will both entertain and educate? If so you’ve come to the right place. This week we have a history of the local story behind Brown v. Board and a book challenging one of America’s favorite pastimes: college football. Check out what’s new this week or head to our Hot Off The Press Page to see all… Continue Reading New This Week: November 19th

Categories African American Studies/New Books/Sociology
November 15, 2024

2024 American Studies Association Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the American Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#412/414) to say hello and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Looking to connect with one of our editors? Dawn Durante is attending the conference… Continue Reading 2024 American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Categories UNC Press News
November 15, 2024

2024 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting

Although UNC Press is not exhibiting in-person at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting this year, you can still visit our virtual booth! There you can connect with editor Andreína Fernández & browse our titles on display (available at our 40% conference discount, details below). And be sure to check out our Gender & American Culture series! The Gender and American Culture… Continue Reading 2024 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting

Categories UNC Press News
November 14, 2024

Native American Heritage Month Reading List

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we’re proud to highlight a selection of books that explore the rich histories, cultures, and contemporary experiences of Native American communities. Whether you’re looking to deepen your understanding of Native American history, explore Indigenous culture, or learn more about ongoing social and political issues, our curated collection includes important contributions from Native authors… Continue Reading Native American Heritage Month Reading List

Categories Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History/Reading Lists
November 13, 2024

New This Week: November 12

This week we have books perfect for readers interested in True Crime, Southern Queerness in US Fiction, the Jargon Society, and the life of an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations. Check out all of these new titles that, as of yesterday, are officially on-sale wherever books are sold. You can also visit our Hot Off the… Continue Reading New This Week: November 12

Categories New Books
November 12, 2024

University Press Week Blog Tour: How We #StepUP

This Week is University Press Week—an annual celebration of the global impact of the university press publishing community. This year’s theme is #StepUP and today we’re joining the UP Week Blog tour to reflect on how we #StepUP by shining a spotlight on projects that exemplify how the #StepUP theme intersects with our mission as a press. When the theme… Continue Reading University Press Week Blog Tour: How We #StepUP

Categories UNC Press News
October 30, 2024

Understanding the Complex History and Cultural Diversity of Puerto Rico: A Reading List

The following reading list showcases a fraction of books that have been published by UNC Press over many decades regarding Puerto Rico’s multilayered, complicated history and status as a US territory, as well as its rich, diverse cultural heritage—on La isla del encanto, and on the US mainland. Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s… Continue Reading Understanding the Complex History and Cultural Diversity of Puerto Rico: A Reading List

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/UNC Press News
October 29, 2024

New This Week: October 29

From Black US Persona Poetry to food waste in Belgium we have a big selection of new books releasing this week. Browse these new titles that are now available wherever books are sold, or take a look at everything that released this month. Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive by Ryan Sharp “Sharp’s analysis and thoughtful treatment… Continue Reading New This Week: October 29

Categories New Books
October 23, 2024

Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration

At UNC Press, the broad dissemination of scholarship is core to our mission, so we enthusiastically share the vision of many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the opportunities afforded by digital formats, most traditional academic publishing models reinforce networks of privilege where scholars and students at well-resourced universities can read our books and journals but anyone outside that network must… Continue Reading Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration

Categories Open Access/UNC Press News
October 22, 2024

New This Week: October 22

From a biography of the boy who emerged as the face of the aids epidemic in the 1980’s to an oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina we have another great selection of book publishing this week. Keep reading to browse what’s new or check out everything new this month. The Life and Death of Ryan… Continue Reading New This Week: October 22

Categories New Books
October 17, 2024

Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

Congratulations are in order for Marlene L. Daut, Sara E. Johnson, and Emily A. Owens, three of the four finalists—published by the University of North Carolina Press, and by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press—for the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,… Continue Reading Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

Categories African American History/African American Studies
October 15, 2024

New This Week: October 15th

Another week, another batch of new books publishing. Today we have books spanning topics on segregation scholarships in the US south, teen pop culture at the turn of the twenty-first-century, and North Carolina Politics. Find your next favorite read among these new titles or browse our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners,… Continue Reading New This Week: October 15th

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/New Books/North Carolina/Political Science
October 8, 2024

New This Week: October 8th

Celebrate the delicious fusion of Jewish and Mexican culinary traditions or learn about how native North Americans sparked a communications revolution through inscription with our two new books that publish today. Check out today’s new books or visit our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month. Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook by By Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle;… Continue Reading New This Week: October 8th

Categories Cooking / Food/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/New Books
October 1, 2024

New This Week: October 1

It’s New Books Tuesday and from a graphic history of reconstruction in DC to a new Reacting to the Past game book, we have an exciting list of new titles publishing today. Browse this week’s new books below and be sure to sign up for our monthly enews for updates on everything new each month. Freedom Was in Sight!: A… Continue Reading New This Week: October 1

Categories UNC Press News
October 1, 2024

Jimmy Carter Celebrates his 100th Birthday

Today Jimmy Carter becomes the longest-lived former US President in history as he celebrates his 100th Birthday. In honor of this we’re traveling back the 39th President’s inauguration on January 20th 1977 with this excerpt from the second edition of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter by Randall Balmer. Refreshingly concise…. Balmer presents Carter as an icon of progressive evangelicalism.… Continue Reading Jimmy Carter Celebrates his 100th Birthday

Categories Excerpts
September 30, 2024

Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief

The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina, as well as the other southern states that are impacted by this historic storm. Countless authors, series editors, UNC system school colleagues at UNC Asheville, Appalachian State University, and Western Carolina University, bookstores, as well as press staff members… Continue Reading Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief

Categories UNC Press News
September 27, 2024

Upcoming Tour Dates with Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration”

Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, one of the foremost experts on Black education in the United States and the South, will be touring this fall (in-person, unless noted as virtual) to discuss her new book A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, which UNC Press will publish in its John Hope Franklin Series in African American… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration”

Categories UNC Press News
September 26, 2024

2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#7 in the Sternwheeler Room) to say hello to editors Andrew Winters & Dawn Durante and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always… Continue Reading 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting

Categories UNC Press News