December 17, 2010

Give My Poor Heart Ease now available as enhanced E-book!

Here’s something that would give anyone’s poor heart ease: William Ferris’ Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues is available through Amazon in an enhanced Kindle Edition at a great price. This enhanced edition is an ideal way to enjoy a work that draws heavily from archival video and audio recordings. Listen, watch, and read from the… Continue Reading Give My Poor Heart Ease now available as enhanced E-book!

Categories African American Studies/folklore/Music/UNC Press Authors
December 16, 2010

Interview: Simpson & Taylor on Carolina’s Coasts

We recently spoke to Bland Simpson and Scott Taylor about capturing the essence and spirit of a large, rich place in photographs and words in the book they co-authored, The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside to Sound Country. For a limited time, their book, among many other great gift books, is available with a 20% discount through the UNC Press Holiday… Continue Reading Interview: Simpson & Taylor on Carolina’s Coasts

Categories Interviews/Nature/North Carolina/Photography/UNC Press Authors
December 14, 2010

Listen: Author Adam Lucas talks Carolina Basketball

Recently, Adam Lucas, author of Carolina Basketball: A Century of Excellence, sat down with UNC Press editor Mark Simpson-Vos and discussed the many different elements that went into the making of a book that has met the approval of former Carolina players, coaches, and fans alike. Besides penning his column on TarHeelBlue.com, Lucas also publishes Tar Heel Monthly and Tar… Continue Reading Listen: Author Adam Lucas talks Carolina Basketball

Categories Interviews/North Carolina/Podcasts/Sports/UNC Press Authors
December 13, 2010

Hannah Gill: Durham and the Matricula Consular

We welcome a guest post from Hannah Gill, author of The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State, who updates us on recent political activity regarding the Latino immigrant community in Durham, North Carolina.–ellen <br /> On November 15, 2010, Durham City adopted a resolution supporting recognition of the Matricula Consular card as a… Continue Reading Hannah Gill: Durham and the Matricula Consular

Categories Current Events/Guest Bloggers/Latino Studies/North Carolina/Public Policy
December 9, 2010

Listen: Phillip Round on Native American Literature

Phillip Round, author of Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880, recently sat down for an interview on Iowa Public Radio. He joined American Indian studies lecturer James Coppoc and short story author Eddie Chuculate to discuss the history and current state of Native American literature. Beyond his broad knowledge on Native American literacy and printed word… Continue Reading Listen: Phillip Round on Native American Literature

Categories History/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Podcasts/UNC Press Authors
December 8, 2010

Karen L. Cox: The South…In Reality

UNC Press author Karen L. Cox draws from some of my favorite not-so-guilty pleasures in a guest post about representations of the South in reality television and popular culture. Her forthcoming book, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, examines how entertainment, advertising, and the media construct a romanticized view of Southern culture that, until… Continue Reading Karen L. Cox: The South…In Reality

Categories American History/American Studies/Author blog entry/Guest Bloggers/Southern Studies/UNC Press Authors
December 3, 2010

Remembering Allan Berube, historian of gays in the military

I currently have a live feed of the Senate Committee Hearing on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell open in another window on what would have been Allan Bérubé’s 64th birthday. Despite wide support of DADT’s repeal by President Obama and other high-ranking officials, Senator McCain and other Republican leaders are challenging any change in the policy before the year’s end, expressing… Continue Reading Remembering Allan Berube, historian of gays in the military

Categories American History/Current Events/Gay / Lesbian Studies/Labor Studies/Military Studies/Politics/UNC Press Authors
December 2, 2010

Marcie Cohen Ferris: A Happy Southern Hanukkah

We welcome a guest post this Hanukkah from Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South , which we’ve just released in paperback and which the Chicago Tribune called “fascinating reading mixed with delicious recipes.” In this post Ferris recalls her childhood as a religious minority in her Arkansas neighborhood. You can catch her… Continue Reading Marcie Cohen Ferris: A Happy Southern Hanukkah

Categories Cooking / Food/Guest Bloggers/Jewish Studies/North Carolina/Recipes/Religion
December 2, 2010

Bland Simpson and Scott Taylor at Harkers Island’s Waterfowl Weekend

This weekend is Waterfowl Weekend at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center at Harkers Island, North Carolina.  Our authors, Bland Simpson and Scott Taylor will surely be there.  Their book is The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside to Sound Country.  What it is, it seems to me, is a love letter to the southern part of the NC coast—its… Continue Reading Bland Simpson and Scott Taylor at Harkers Island’s Waterfowl Weekend

Categories Birds & Birding/North Carolina/UNC Press Authors
December 1, 2010

Getting in the holiday mood

One of the annual traditions around UNC Press is to have a door-decorating contest in which decorations incorporate UNC Press books in some way. Rights and contracts assistant Jennifer Hergenroeder has kicked things off this year with her Tar Heel stockings stuffed with UNC Press miniatures. I don’t think one could fit this many actual books in a single stocking,… Continue Reading Getting in the holiday mood

Categories UNC Press News
November 29, 2010

Philip Rubio hits the airwaves to talk snail mail and the effects of postal cuts on African American postal workers

The U.S. Postal Service faces an $8.5 million budget shortfall this year. NPR is broadcasting a series of stories about cuts in postal services and facilities and the lives and communities already being affected. One person with great insight into the social history of the USPS is Philip Rubio, author of There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American… Continue Reading Philip Rubio hits the airwaves to talk snail mail and the effects of postal cuts on African American postal workers

Categories African American History/African American Studies/Civil Rights/History/Labor Studies/Podcasts/Public Policy/UNC Press Authors
November 23, 2010

Malinda Lowery on Giving Thanks in a Native Way

Malinda Maynor Lowery, author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South, shares a personal Thanksgiving story over at FemCentral, the Virtual Institute for Women: “Ooh, I’m going to spend Thanksgiving with the Indians!,” joked a co-worker of mine one autumn afternoon in the late 1990s. He and I were crewmates on one of my short documentary films which discussed… Continue Reading Malinda Lowery on Giving Thanks in a Native Way

Categories American History/American Studies/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies
November 19, 2010

Celebrate Pauli Murray this Sunday in Durham

Hello all and happy weekend! Before we head off into the literal and very beautiful fall sunset today, we want to remind you about Pauli Murray’s 100th birthday celebration on Sunday.  We do hope you’ll attend, or click around the interwebs in her honor if you can’t be there in person. This Sunday, from 3 to 5, there will be… Continue Reading Celebrate Pauli Murray this Sunday in Durham

Categories African American History/African American Studies/Events/UNC Press News
November 18, 2010

Take a peek at Spring 2011

I know, I know, in my last post I was praising the transition into autumn, so why the rush to spring all of a sudden? Ellen, why so fickle? you must be thinking. Well, our spring 2011 catalogs have arrived, that’s why. You don’t have to open it if you’re not ready. I understand. One season at a time. That’s… Continue Reading Take a peek at Spring 2011

Categories Nature/North Carolina/UNC Press News
November 16, 2010

Interview: Jennifer Frick-Ruppert on Appalachian ecology

There are about 35 million acres of beautiful mountains that extend from northern Virginia down to north Georgia. They’ve been going through a glorious transformation of color over the last few weeks. If you’ve never visited the Appalachians in fall, you’re missing out on a breathtaking treat from nature. In Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians,… Continue Reading Interview: Jennifer Frick-Ruppert on Appalachian ecology

Categories Appalachian Studies/Environmental Studies/Interviews/Nature/North Carolina/UNC Press Authors
November 15, 2010

Get Your Gift On! SALE on gift books begins today!

That’s right. Uh-huh. It’s a sale. Starting now. Save on a fantastic selection of gift books, just in time for the holidays. We’ve hand-picked some longstanding greats and some brand new favorites in travel, sports, North Caroliniana, cooking, nature, Civil War, craft, and literature. We’ve even put together some special bundles, including a double shot of Carolina basketball history from… Continue Reading Get Your Gift On! SALE on gift books begins today!

Categories UNC Press News
November 12, 2010

Celebrate fruitcake! Come on!

Sing along with me . . . there’s a party going on right here . . . Read on to discover the missing link between dollbaby carriages, Truman Capote, Jay Leno, fruitcake, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dark rum, and Harper Lee. The website for the Fruitcake Festival in Monroeville, Alabama proclaims, “It’s Fruitcake Weather!” and it is, indeed. It’s the time… Continue Reading Celebrate fruitcake! Come on!

Categories Cooking / Food/Recipes/UNC Press News
November 10, 2010

Candombe, Cachila, and Afro-Uruguay

Taking place this week and next week in Chapel Hill and Durham is the NC Latin American Film Festival, put on by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. Tomorrow night features a screening of director Sebastián Bednarik’s Cachila: un hombre, una familia y el legado del Candombe/Cachila: a man, a family and the… Continue Reading Candombe, Cachila, and Afro-Uruguay

Categories Events/Film/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./Music