Celebrating National Coffee Day because behind every completed manuscript is an alarming amount of coffee ☕️
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Big congratulations to two of my dear friends on their book releases today. First up is @civilwarmemory.bsky.social's new book on the life and legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. You can get this for 30% at @uncpress.bsky.social by using code 01HATM30 uncpress.org/978146969717...
A Glorious Fate
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black so...
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Who do you picture when you think “American working class”? Aimee Loiselle joins The Clio Dialogues history podcast to discuss 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘦 and why our cultural image of the working class leaves so many workers outside the frame. 🎧Link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social @aimloiselle.bsky.social
One last pub day for September! Meet our four newest releases: https://uncpress.org/hot-off-the-press/
Who's going to Alice Gerrard's book event and performance at Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival this Saturday? 🎤 🎶 raleighwideopen.com/2026-lineup/
Historian Aimee Loiselle joins The Clio Dialogues history podcast to discuss 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘦: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 and the workers behind the Hollywood version of labor history. @aimloiselle.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social
Wonderful to see my book in the hands of so many readers. Tuesday is the official publication day for A GLORIOUS FATE with @uncpress.bsky.social. #booksky
Ray E. Boomhower@rboomhower.bsky.social · 3d agoReally looking forward to reading @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s new book. Got my copy today.
I'm so sad to miss @asalh-bhm.bsky.social this year, but I see Policing Passengers! 🎉 Plus many books cited in it!
UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 6d agoOur ASALH booth is ready for you! Stop by to view our titles on display or chat with editors, @dawnd.bsky.social and Andrew Winters 🙌 #ASALH2026 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social
Did you know Nina Simone and Langston Hughes first met in Asheville? Check out this excerpt from DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power by @wjasonmiller.bsky.social (out next week 9/29) in @indyweek.bsky.social 🎶 indyweek.com/news/culture...
The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville
Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.
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Just spent a full hour on Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins (WFAE), talking about "The Friendship and Collaboration of Nina Simone and Langston Hughes." With Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood arriving Monday, the timing feels perfect. Link in comments. #DontLetMeBeMisunderstood
Our ASALH booth is ready for you! Stop by to view our titles on display or chat with editors, @dawnd.bsky.social and Andrew Winters 🙌 #ASALH2026 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social
The complete #JERPano Vol. 46 Fall issue is available free on Project MUSE for the next four weeks, courtesy of @uncpress.bsky.social. Every article in this edition is open to read, download, and share with students and colleagues! Click the link in the🧵or scan the QR code to access.
"A Mother’s Work: Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War Era Nurse" by Megan VanGorder "will be an important addition to scholarly conversations on women’s history and the history of medicine and nursing," writes Sarah Handley-Cousins. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdh6v49z @uncpress.bsky.social
Check out Jack Carey's review of Adrienne Krone's "Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States," published in 2025 by @uncpress.bsky.social Review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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It was great to sit down with @civilwarmemory.bsky.social to discuss his upcoming book release. I had an awesome time talking history with Kevin, as always. Check out the video now! youtube.com/live/Na_5zPM...
The Man Behind "Glory": What Hollywood Got Wrong About Robert Gould Shaw
YouTube video by The Tattooed Historian
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Sonya Bonczek@sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: @uncpress.bsky.social's 2026 Employee Duo of the Year, presented to Sonya Bonczek and Brock Schnoke by a rigorous selection committee consisting of Sonya Bonczek and Brock Schnoke. No questions will be taken at this time.
Authors, have you ever wondered how to turn a revised dissertation into a proposal? Or when the best time is to submit? Our acquisitions team has answers to these FAQs and more 👇 uncpress.substack.com/p/what-autho...
What Authors Ask Most
Advice from UNC Press acquisitions staff on proposals, timelines, and more
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This should tighten the market for vital resources like @charleshughes2.bsky.social's Country Soul @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146963342...
Country Soul
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul...
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Charles Hughes@charleshughes2.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is no more renewable resource in the United States than wrongheaded takes by writers who confidently use country music as a simple symbol of rurality without having a clue about the music or seemingly anything else. If only we could harness such empty pontificating as a fuel source...
Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT: 
Pema Levy@pemalevy.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Supreme Court rules over us, with 5 unelected judges wiping out legislation passed by the people's representatives. Is this how democracy is supposed to work? Two new books argue the court seized power it was never intended to have. And how to take it back. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A great read from our friends at the University of Michigan Press for #PeerReviewWeek!
University of Michigan Press@uofmpress.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's #PeerReviewWeek! Wondering what the peer review process looks like at a university press? Learn all about it from our Acquiring Editor, Haley Winkle, in today's blog post. press.umich.edu/Blog/2026/09...
I am so excited to share the cover art for my new book, due out on 17 March 2027. It’s been great working with @uncpress.bsky.social again!
Looks to be another challenging and illuminating read on the legal roots of vigilantism, providing vital context as we continue to confront and challenge the realities of white supremacy and White Christian nationalism. @gauthamrao.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social 🧵 1/4
New book review! Kirwin R. Shaffer reviews 'A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s' by Russell Rickford (University of North Carolina Press, 2026): doi.org/10.1080/0308... @uncpress.bsky.social
A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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So grateful for this kind review of Canal Dreamers on H-Oceans! It describes the book as "a well-researched and detailed study" that will be of interest to scholars of diplomatic history, global history and history of science, technology, and the environment. @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️
H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 3w agoNew book review: Wilson on Lepler, Jessica M.: _Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Oceans. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20161300
Today Molly Brookfield joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to answer questions on her new book Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States, new from @uncpress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: AMA: Molly Brookfield, historian of gender, sexual violence, and urban space in 19th- and 20th-century U.S. Author of “Watching the Girls Go By: A History o...
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I’m thrilled to learn that my book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis, won the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award! Thank you so much to the award committee and to the good folks over at @uncpress.bsky.social!
Opium Slavery
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousand...
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