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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s Tuesday and that means we have new books publishing! This week we’re excited to celebrate the release of two new books: A lyrical memoir of North Carolina’s Piedmont region and an analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Learn more about… Continue Reading New This Week: September 24th
Another week, another New Books Tuesday! This week we’re celebrating the release of TANGLED JOURNEYS, an ambitious historical narrative that tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that invites us into the process of American history making itself. Learn more about the book below and browse all of our new books this month here. Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History… Continue Reading New This Week: September 17th
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!”
Today, 23 years after the attacks on 9/11, we’re reflecting back to some of the earliest commemorations in New York City with this excerpt from Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11 by John Bodnar. You can also read a Q&A with John Bodnar and Executive Editor, Debbie Gershenowitz here. New York City The earliest commemorations of the terrorist attacks on… Continue Reading Memorializing 9/11: An Excerpt from “Divided by Terror”
Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th – October 15th every year to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans and celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries. We’re proud to publish a wide selection of Hispanic and Latin American titles, including two book series (Latinx Histories and Latin America in Translation) as… Continue Reading Five Books to Read this Hispanic Heritage Month
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
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