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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
The following is a reblog from Losering Books, a blog by David Menconi, author of Oh, Didn’t They Ramble, Step it Up and Go, and editor of our American Music: New Roots series. It came about due to luck-of-the-draw happenstance, but I’ve sort of had my very own personal book-cover designer for most of my university-press writing career. That’s Lindsay Starr, currently… Continue Reading David Menconi on Working with Art Director Lindsay Starr
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!”
Happy September! With the first day of fall at the end of the month, now is the perfect time to start filling up your shelves for some cozy fall reading. Luckily, we have a great selection of new books publishing this month. Check out our September releases below or browse everything new this season in our Fall/Winter Catalog. Plus, if… Continue Reading New This Month: September 2024
We are saddened by the passing of Professor Peter S. Carmichael, a remarkable historian who made significant contributions in the field of Civil War studies. UNC Press is honored to have worked with him on many projects over the years, including most recently The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher. The new fall issue… Continue Reading In Memoriam: Distinguished Historian Peter S. Carmichael
It’s New Books Tuesday and we have two new books that are now officially on sale wherever books are sold. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by by Margaret Humphreys “Humphreys has written a superb biography that makes a… Continue Reading New This Week: August 20th
Happy Audiobook Month! To celebrate and increase awareness of the legitimacy of audiobooks we’re excited to share this recommended listening list of some of our titles that are available in audiobook format. Audiobooks offer another window of accessibility and provide an additional outlet for people to consume the scholarship we publish. Browse this list of some of our popular titles… Continue Reading Listen and Learn with UNC Press Audiobooks
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our table to browse our recent titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Interconnections: The Global 20th Century (New Series) Join us in the exhibit hall on… Continue Reading 2024 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting
CHAPEL HILL, NC (June 1, 2024)—Longleaf Services is pleased to welcome the University of Pittsburgh Press as its newest fulfillment and publishing services client. University of Pittsburgh Press titles will be officially available from Longleaf beginning July 1, 2024. Peter Kracht, Director, University of Pittsburgh Press, commented: “We are very pleased to join the Longleaf family of academic presses. From… Continue Reading University of Pittsburgh Press Selects Longleaf Services for Fulfillment and Publishing Services
One hundred and ten years ago today, the jazz visionary Sun Ra arrived on this planet in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. Though Sun Ra would always claim extraterrestrial origins (he rejected the notion of a “birthday,” claiming May 22 only as his arrival day), he was in many ways shaped by the city of its youth and its thriving musical… Continue Reading Arrival Day: Celebrating Sun Ra 110 Years Later
It’s New Books Tuesday and we have a bunch of new books now available wherever books are sold. Keep scrolling to see everything new this week and don’t forget you can see everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page or sign up for our monthly e-news to get updates on new titles in your inbox. What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories… Continue Reading New This Week
Happy New Books Tuesday! This week we have a new Southern Gateways Guide and a book on the United Teachers of New Orleans, now available wherever books are sold. Check out our two new releases below. Discovering North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail: A Companion for Hikers and Armchair Explorers by Jerry Barker Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New… Continue Reading New This Week
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