The following is a guest post by Aimee Loiselle, author of Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class, which tells a history of women industrial workers in struggles over working conditions and pop culture in the late-twentieth century. Beyond Norma Rae is now available wherever books are sold.… Continue Reading Movies Are Not Mirrors
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#622) to say hello to editor Mark Simpson-Vos and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to check out these great… Continue Reading 2023 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#512) to say hello to editor María Isela García and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to check out these great… Continue Reading 2023 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
When Does Your Press #SpeakUp?—University Press Week 2023 guest blog post by Cate Hodorowitz, UNC Press Acquisitions Editor With each seasonal list, UNC Press’s publishing program engages with the past as a way to understand our present world. Instead of waiting for a specific event to compel to speak up, we try to drive the conversation and spark debate. If… Continue Reading Speaking Up One Book, and One Season, at a Time
It’s Tuesday which means we have new books that are officially on-sale wherever books are sold! You can also see our list of everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page and you can sign up for our monthly eNews to get updates in your inbox about new books, news, promotions and more. Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses,… Continue Reading New Books This Week
We’re celebrating Native American Heritage Month by highlighting books written by Native American authors. The following is an excerpt from Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History. Seeing Red is published by the… Continue Reading The State of Nature: An Excerpt From “Seeing Red”
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth to say hello to editors Dawn Durante, Mark Simpson-Vos, & Andrew Winters and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Stop by our booth today… Continue Reading 2023 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
Another week, another list of new books! Check out these new books that are now available wherever books are sold. Plus see everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page. You can also sign up for our monthly eNews so you can get updates on new releases and news on what’s happening at UNC Press. Southern Lights: 75 Years of the… Continue Reading New This Week
The following is an excerpt from Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II–Era New York City by Emily Brooks which is available now wherever books are sold. Contemporary popular discourse in the United States understands urban policing solely through a lens of crime. This formulation fundamentally misconstrues the history of policing… Continue Reading A Political History of Policing in Pre-1930s New York City: An Excerpt from “Gotham’s War within a War”
Happy November! We heard you were looking for some new books to add to your fall TBR pile so here’s all the new books we have publishing this month. Be sure to also sign up for our monthly eNews so that you don’t miss out on new titles, sales and promotions, and what’s happening at UNC Press. Southern Lights: 75 Years of… Continue Reading New This Month: November
UNC Press is pleased to announce that Lucas Church has been promoted to Executive Editor Lucas joined UNC Press in 2013 as an editorial assistant, after working for the Press as an intern during his last semester of graduate school. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Appalachian State University and later his MFA in Creative Writing from North… Continue Reading Lucas Church Promoted to Executive Editor
Although LGBTQ+ History Month—an annual month-long (Oct 1-Oct 31, 2023) celebration of the history, culture, and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community—is coming to an end, we’ve curated a list of books to add to your bookshelf so you can celebrate LGBTQ+ history all year long. You can also browse a list of all of our LGBTQ+ books on our website.… Continue Reading 5 Books to Read After LGBTQ+ History Month
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the NWSA annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth to say hello to editor Andreína Fernández and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to check out our Gender & American Culture series!… Continue Reading 2023 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Western History Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (211) to say hello to editor Debbie Gershenowitz and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Be sure to check out these great series from… Continue Reading 2023 Western History Association Annual Meeting
We love Tuesdays because it means that there’s another list of new books publishing! Check out the following books which are now available wherever books are sold and don’t forget you can see all of our October releases on our Hot Off the Press page. Plus, if you want updates in your inbox every month on new titles and what’s happening at UNC… Continue Reading New Books This Week
Looking for your next read? See what’s trending at UNC Press with this list of the most viewed books on our website this month. Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene L. Daut “By exposing the intellectual contributions of nineteenth-century Haitian scholars and leaders to our modern understanding of freedom and equality, Daut shows the ongoing racism of… Continue Reading Trending This Month: October
The following is an excerpt of Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II by Jennifer Dominique Jones, which is available now wherever books are sold. In a January 31, 1942, letter to the Pittsburgh Courier, twenty-six-year-old James G. Thompson queried, “Should I sacrifice my life to live half [an]American? Would it be demanding too much to demand… Continue Reading Racial and Sexual Exclusion in World War II–Era Military and Veterans’ Policy: An excerpt from “Ambivalent Affinities”
The following is a Q&A with David Menconi, whose second book with UNC PRESS Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music is available now wherever books are sold. Oh, Didn’t They Ramble is the definitive history of Rounder Records, drawing on previously untapped archives and extensive interviews with artists, Rounder staff, and founders Ken… Continue Reading Q&A with David Menconi author of “Oh, Didn’t They Ramble”
It’s Tuesday which means we have new books that are officially on-sale wherever books are sold! You can also see our list of everything new in October on our Hot Off the Press page. Plus, if you want updates in your inbox every month on new titles and what’s happening at UNC Press, you can sign up for our monthly eNews here. Oh, Didn’t… Continue Reading New Books This Week
New Award Winners Food Power Politics by Bobby J. Smith II Finalist, 2024 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Reference, History and Scholarship) A Man of Bad Reputation by Drew A. Swanson 2023 North Caroliniana Society Book Award Fit Citizens by Ava Purkiss 2024 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians Finalist, 2024 Association for the Study of African… Continue Reading UNC Press Award Winners
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