Congratulations to Augustus Wood! His book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification (@uncpress.bsky.social, Justice, Power, and Politics series) has been shortlisted for the Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award!

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification — MAAH Stone Book Award

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Congratulations to Ashley Howard for being named a 2026 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader! If you haven't read Ashley's book, Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement (@uncpress.bsky.social), this is your sign to pick up her award-winning book.

"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

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Registration is now open for my "Bookworm" webinar with @clementslibrary.bsky.social on September 18, 10-11:30 AM. I can't wait to discuss "Canal Dreamers" with the good folks at the University of Michigan! Registration is free: events.umich.edu/event/149188 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

Bookworm #95 - Author Conversation with Jessica M. Lepler, "Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions" | Happening @ Michigan

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ICYMI: The Black Women’s History series is accepting applications for its annual incubator. The incubator provides support for developing projects that center the voices and experiences of Black women using a historical methodology. #CFP #skystorians

UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are you writing a book on Black Women's History? We're now accepting applications for our 2026/27 Black Women's History Series Incubator 🎉 Get your application in now! https://uncpress.org/black-womens-history-series-incubator/

Congratulations to Lauren Duval winner of The Mary Kelley Prize in Gender & Women’s History for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Craig Thompson Friend winner of The James C. Bradford Best Biography Prize for Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Lauren Duval the second winner (not finalist!) for The SHEAR Book Prize for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

What are some examples of digital projects? https://bit.ly/3JrWl8g University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Although we wish we were in Chile for #NAISA2026 we still have a virtual exhibit, a conference discount, and a message from editor, Andreina Fernandez! uncpressblog.com/2026/07/22/2...

2026 Native American & Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting - UNC Press Blog

Although UNC Press will not be attending the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting in-person this year, you can still visit our virtual booth to browse our recent titles on d...

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There is one grant on this list of 81 projects that specifically focuses on the history of women and girls and that is just my tiny sigh for the day.

National Endowment for the Humanities@nehgov.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW NEH GRANTS! NEH awards $41.4 million for 81 humanities projects nationwide. Grants will support planning and implementation of exhibitions, the preservation and digitization of written works and records documenting American history, collaborative scholarly research, and more! buff.ly/gu0TM5b

Haitian scholar-diplomat Weibert Arthus wrote a piece in @lenouvelliste.bsky.social about our @oah.org 2026 conference panel—including @dawnd.bsky.social—on Rayford Logan’s *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @uncpress.bsky.social. 🇺🇸🇭🇹📚 lenouvelliste.com/en/article/2...

From Pawn to Perceived Threat: Revisiting Rayford Logan’s Analysis of Haitian-American Relations

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence—the first independence in the Americas—I had the opportunity, during a panel at the annual conference of the Organization of A...

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If you're like me and weren't able to attend #AUPresses26, then @michellechn.bsky.social's reflection on of the conference will make you feel like you were there! Check out her thoughts in "AUPresses 2026: Swimming Upstream Together" on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social's #FeedingTheElephant

Julia, Chris, and I will be at SHAFR next week! Reach out if you’d like to connect! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Julia Irwin@juliairwin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you're a historian working on global, international, or transregional topics in the (long) twentieth century, the series editors for INTERCONNECTIONS: THE GLOBAL 20TH CENTURY would be delighted to chat with you about your book project. uncpress.org/series/inter...

As a fellow archive rat, I loved hearing that @gauthamrao.bsky.social sneaks in an archive trip wherever he goes--even on vacation. Hear about the two decade journey to writing WHITE POWER: POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY, and why--and how--he rewrote it for a wider audience. (@uncpress.bsky.social) 🗃️

Episode 102: Gautham Rao Completes Each Vacation with an Archive Trip

Kate Carpenter interviews legal historian Gautham Rao about his book White Power: Policing American Slavery.

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MISSISSIPPI LAW was a huge hit in my undergraduate and graduate carceral history courses last spring uncpress.org/978146968948...

Mississippi Law

In the segregated American South, policing was war. Rampant police violence came to the back roads and cattle pastures of America’s rural countryside as i...

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Your TBR is about to get longer 📚 @aupresses.bsky.social put together a US at 250: University Press Books list 👏 bookshop.org/lists/us-at-...

US at 250: University Press Books

Insightful reads on the American experiment, 250 years along

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And here is @uncpress.bsky.social author Allison S. Curseen, pictured below with her book Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives. @the-ala.bsky.social #ala2026

It's that day of the year, fellow #readers! The day the @nytimes.com talks about #summerreading with a reference to the @umasspress.bsky.social book on this very topic! #books #publishing (Was just linked in a Times Book Review email.)

Books for Idle Hours

The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture a...

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It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Piggy-backing off of this to say that buying books direct from a publisher's website means higher net revenue for the press, which often translates to higher royalties for the author. So resist the temptation to "buy with one click" on Amazon; the couple extra clicks are worth it, we promise.

Laura Davulis@davulis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey folks, you know how I’m always telling you that the most cost effective way to buy a UP book is almost always direct from the publisher with a discount code? Well here you go (good through 5/31)

Elizabeth Zaleski (@greatfartsoflit.bsky.social and project editor at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social) discusses her observations about and the impacts of “puzzling citation style variation” when it comes to using style guides like MLA, APA, and Chicago. @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social #FeedingTheElephant

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

We are in celebration mode at @uncpress.bsky.social because Sandra Korn is joining the acquisitions dept! Sandra will acquire environmental history, history of science and medicine, urban history, labor history, and oversee two series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges & Studies in Social Medicine.

UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re excited to welcome Sandra Korn to UNC Press! 🎉 Joining the team on May 26, she will acquire in environmental history, history of science & medicine, urban history, and labor history. Read more about Sandra and the series she will oversee in this blogpost 👇 uncpressblog.com/2026/05/05/u...

My first copy arrived! 🥳 My and Golshan Golriz’s new edited volume LGBTQ Religious Activism is officially out June 9 from The University of North Carolina Press (@uncpress.bsky.social). Order at uncpress.org/978146969292...

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

Unequal Housing and Transportation: The Fight to Live and Move Freely

CBFS: Scholars investigate and discuss the relationship between race and mobility in America. This is an online event program.

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Today is the official release date for my new book about free people of color in the Civil War era. My first book events are coming up next month in the Boston area. I’ll be at the Cambridge Public Library on 5/13 and the Museum of African American History on 5/14. Both events start at 6 pm.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Prince's death, we're rereading @drshabazzz.bsky.social's luminous geography of the Minneapolis Sound. It opens with the concert where Prince debuted "Purple Rain," collaborating “not only with his bandmates, but with the histories that created the city itself."

Prince & Place

Listening to Prince, we are immersed in the soundscape of Minneapolis — a musical geography shaped by racism, class inequality, sexuality, migration, habitation, and displacement.

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Congratulations to Jason R. Young on the publication of THE MASK OF MEMORY: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War. THE MASK OF MEMORY brilliantly reveals how Southern white elites shaped the historical memory of enslavement. It’s the newest book in @uncpress.bsky.social’s Boundless South series.