Summer is officially here and now’s the perfect time to catch up on some reading. Whether you’re looking for a book for your beach bag, to take with you on a trip, or to curl up with on the couch in the comfort of the air conditioning, you may find what you’re looking for in this Summer Reads blogpost. Don’t… Continue Reading Books to Read This Summer
Happy Audiobook Month! Every year in June Audiobook Month is celebrated to increase appreciation of of audiobooks. In this second installment of our Audiobooks Listening List, we’re excited to highlight some of our books that are available in Audiobook format. With audiobooks you can listen to UNC Press books when you’re in the car, cleaning, relaxing, or whenever you typically… Continue Reading UNC Press Audiobooks Listening List: Part 2
June 20, 2023 (Chapel Hill, NC): Longleaf Services is pleased to welcome five new distributed client presses to the group: Chemeketa Press, Clemson University Press, University Press of Kansas, TCU Press, and InterVarsity Press (IVP). This brings the total number of Longleaf fulfillment clients to 23. Chemeketa Press, a nonprofit textbook publisher, based in Salem, Oregon, partnered with Longleaf in… Continue Reading Longleaf Services Announces Five New Client Presses
The following is an excerpt from Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal. Living Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as… Continue Reading Magic Tricks: An Excerpt from “Living Queer History”
Happy Juneteenth! Celebrate and reflect on the emancipation of slavery with this excerpt from Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery’s end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals’ sense of personal and social… Continue Reading Phantoms of Freedom: An Excerpt From “Illusions of Emancipation”
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 booth to say hello to editor Debbie Gershenowitz, and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Stop by our in-person booth or our… Continue Reading 2023 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting
Happy Audiobook Month! Every year in June Audiobook Month is celebrated to increase awareness of the legitimacy of audiobooks. This month, we’re excited to highlight some UNC Press books that are available in Audiobook format. Also, in addition to Audiobook Month, June is also Black Music Month, so we’re kicking off this list with two of our award winning Black… Continue Reading UNC Press Audiobooks Listening List: Part 1
The following is a guest post by La Shonda Mims, author of Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South, which is available now everywhere books are sold. When I first conceived of Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists, I knew that I wanted to address the lack of queer people in southern US histories and the lack of… Continue Reading Queer History is Southern History; Queer Women are Southern Women
Father’s day is just around the corner and if you’re still searching for the perfect gift, we have you covered! Browse our selection of books that could make the perfect Father’s Day gift. If you don’t see anything on this list you can always browse all of our books by subject so you can choose the perfect title. You can… Continue Reading Books For Dad This Father’s Day
Today is World Oceans Day. To celebrate we’ve compiled this reading list of some of our ocean related titles. Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks By John Alexander, James Lazell “Leaves the reader with a clear sense of place and an understanding of the forces of wind and water.”—Publishers Weekly “This is a guidebook to… Continue Reading What to Read on World Oceans Day
Step It Up & Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk by David Menconi has been selected as the June bookclub selection for North Carolina Reads: North Carolina Humanities’ statewide book club. The NC Reads bookclub is free and has been featuring books from February through June, that… Continue Reading Join the NC Reads Statewide Book Club and Read “Step It Up and Go” by David Menconi
UNC Press offers our sincere congratulations to Psyche A. Williams-Forson on being awarded the 2023 James Beard Foundation Book Award in Food Issues & Advocacy for Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America! Each year, the James Beard Awards, a program of the James Beard Foundation, recognizes exceptional talent and achievement in the culinary arts, hospitality, media, and… Continue Reading Psyche A. Williams-Forson Wins 2023 James Beard Award
The following is an excerpt of The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence by Robin James, which is available wherever books are sold. Becoming the Future of Rock and Roll 1981-1989 Between 1988 and 2010, “The Future of Rock and Roll” was 97X’s “liner” or recorded station ID. Broadcast on air and printed… Continue Reading Becoming the Future of Rock and Roll
June is here and it’s time to grab your headphones and celebrate Audiobook Month. Every year in June Audiobook Month is celebrated to increase awareness of the legitimacy and accessibility of the audiobook format and we’re excited to share some of your favorite UNC Press books that are available in audiobook format. We know many people still love flipping through… Continue Reading Happy Audiobook Month!
Although UNC Press does not have a booth at the ASFS/AFHVS annual meeting this year, you can still browse our new books in food studies & purchase them at our conference discount! Visit our virtual booth to learn more about our titles on display, to connect with editor Cate Hodorowicz, and to learn more about our new Black Food Justice… Continue Reading 2023 Association for the Study of Food & Society / Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society Annual Meeting
The following is an excerpt from Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America by Ava Purkiss, available everywhere books are sold. Unfit Citizens: Physical and Ideological Cases against Black Citizenship At the turn of the twentieth century, African Americans were keenly aware of the legal, social, and ideological barriers to full-fledged citizenship. Despite the… Continue Reading Physical and Ideological Cases against Black Citizenship: An Excerpt from “Fit Citizens”
See what’s trending at UNC Press with this list of the most viewed books on our website this month. A New History of the American South edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Laura F. Edwards and Jon Sensbach, associate editors. “An important book for anyone interested in Southern history. . . . The book’s contributors brilliantly integrate the contents of their separate chapters,… Continue Reading Trending This Month: May
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Latin American Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (CB03) to say hello to editor Andreina Fernandez, to learn more about our Envisioning Cuba, Latin America in Translation, & Latinx Histories series, and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you… Continue Reading 2023 Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting
Happy pub day to Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet by Bart Elmore, now available wherever books are sold! Country Capitalism is published under our Ferris & Ferris imprint. This engaging and important book reveals how five of today’s most influential global corporations developed from common roots in the US South and are implicated… Continue Reading New This Week: “Country Capitalism”
The following is a guest post by Felicia Arriaga, author of BEHIND CRIMMIGRATION: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America. 5/23 at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, Asheville, NC 5/25 at the Levine Museum in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, NC 5/27 at Diamante Arts & Cultural Center, Raleigh, NC I wanted to host a book tour in North Carolina in the first… Continue Reading Coming Home: A Book Tour in NC
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