Author: Sonya Bonczek

November 18, 2025

UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor

The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce that Andrew Kinney will join the Press on December 1, 2025, as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, leading acquisitions for the Press’s trade imprint dedicated to publishing books about America and the world. Kinney comes to UNC Press from MIT Press, where he served as Senior Editor acquiring in… Continue Reading UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor

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September 18, 2025

UNC Chapel Hill Department of History, UNC Press, and UNC System Offer Free Digital Access to Foundations of American Democracy

To support the University of North Carolina System’s new “Foundations of American Democracy” graduation requirement, prize-winning historians at UNC Chapel Hill have created a new reader of foundational documents from American and North Carolina history, in partnership with UNC Press. The volume, Foundations of American Democracy: A Critical Documents Reader, has been released in print and digital editions. And with… Continue Reading UNC Chapel Hill Department of History, UNC Press, and UNC System Offer Free Digital Access to Foundations of American Democracy

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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”

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September 13, 2024

Upcoming Tour Dates with Kate Masur, author of “Freedom Was in Sight!”

Leading historian and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Kate Masur will be touring (in-person, unless noted as virtual) to discuss Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region. Gorgeously illustrated by award-winning artist Liz Clarke, this graphic history draws on the words and experiences of people who lived during Reconstruction to powerfully show how the Civil War… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Kate Masur, author of “Freedom Was in Sight!”

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October 20, 2021

Upcoming Tour Dates with Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner, Co-Authors of “The Vote Collectors”

“A fine-grained and vivid account of the 2018 North Carolina congressional race that was overturned because of electoral fraud…Throughout, the authors weave in intriguing bits of local color and draw trenchant connections to fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election. This doggedly reported chronicle sheds light on America’s political dysfunctions.”—Publishers Weekly Charlotte journalists Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner will be… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner, Co-Authors of “The Vote Collectors”

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February 24, 2021

Upcoming Tour Dates with Karen L. Cox, Author of “No Common Ground”

“In her superb contribution to the history of the South, Cox targets the massive influence of the United Daughters of the Confederacy on Southerners in the late 1890s and beyond, especially in the area of monument building . . . . This is an invaluable study of all-too-frequently misplaced genealogical and regional venerations. Highly recommended for U.S., antebellum, Civil War,… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Karen L. Cox, Author of “No Common Ground”

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