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@rachelshelden.bsky.social and @aadeleon.bsky.social just wrapped up at the indie press reception at SIBA and NAIBA’s New Voices, New Rooms! Look at them in their element chatting with booksellers 👏📚
We’re on a flight to the New Voices New Rooms conference from SIBA and NAIBA where @rachelshelden.bsky.social has an author reception tonight and what are the odds the person next to us is reading her first book WASHINGTON BROTHERHOOD 🤯
We’re so sad to hear this…rest in power, Johanna 💔 amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/08...
Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.
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We also met @utexaspress.bsky.social author Oliver Rosales with his book Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation & Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley and @uncpress.bsky.social author Casey Nichols with Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America. #ahapcb
Hey, Western NC! Looking for books from local authors? Check out this roundup from WNC Magazine featuring two UNC Press authors 👏 wncmagazine.com/feature/read...
Reader's Choice
Eating on a Mountain at the End of the World: How I Found Love, Humor, & Beauty in My Quest for Ethical Food By Zackary Vernon
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Our editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social sat down with Will Wright to talk about his new book Borders of Biodiversity (@uncpress.bsky.social), which traces the history & conservation of 3 charismatic species across borders Listen to or read the interview: niche-canada.org/2026/07/23/c...
Corridors, Not Cores: Rethinking Conservation with Will Wright
Will Wright discusses his new book, exploring how migratory species transform transboundary large landscape conservation and shape new scientific fields.
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We just wrapped up launching our Spring/summer 2027 list 👏 and if you've ever heard publishers talk about "launch meetings" and had no idea what we mean, we explain it here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...
What Is a Launch Meeting?
We Just Launched Our Spring/Summer 2027 List. Here's What That Means.
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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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Some abolitionists once played up an antislavery version of George Washington to try to end slavery. Now the Trump administration is doing it to deny slavery mattered at all. I wrote about the new exhibit at the President’s House in Philly for @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Washington, the Useful Abolitionist
In Philadelphia, the Trump administration downplays the importance of slavery to understanding the first president.
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In part one of their conversation, @clukasik.bsky.social interviews @tisawenger.bsky.social on _Spirits of Empire_ (@uncpress.bsky.social ). "Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits...but they can never entirely be contained." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
Imperial Hauntings: Candace Lukasik Interviews Tisa Wenger on Spirits of Empire | Contending Modernities
Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.
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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 agoAre 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/
In an article for Ms. Magazine, Berks member Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo reflects on the challenges humanities departments are facing under the current administration, despite how crucial the these studies are to understanding the world around us. Read the full text here: msmagazine.com/2026/06/09/f...
In this work of historically informed sociology, ASA member Pamela A. Popielarz explores the hidden impact of fraternal orders on systemic inequalities in American business, offering new ways to understand contemporary racial and gender inequalities. @uncpress.bsky.social
Order of Business
Though the industrial revolution pushed Americans into radically new modes of living, working, and organizing, patriarchy and white supremacy survived in th...
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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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SHEAR is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2026 SHEAR Prizes which will be announced live here in this 🧵.
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)
New at PB: Michael Knapp reviews “Playing through Pain: The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport” by Daniel Sailofsky (@uncpress.bsky.social), a “a thrilling, comprehensive Marxist critique of the violent underpinnings of contemporary sport.” www.publicbooks.org/the-pain-is-...
Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social and the entire team at 250 to 250 for the opportunity to talk about Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts on the eve of the anniversary of their famous assault against Battery Wagner. #WeAreAmerica250 #CivilWarMemory
250 to 250@250to250.bsky.social · 3w agoKevin M. Levin is an award-winning historian and the author of four books on the history of the Civil War era. Levin tells the story of the 54th Massachusetts and its young colonel, whose 1863 assault on Battery Wagner moved the nation closer to emancipation and equal rights. #WeAreAmerica250
Join us Saturday and you can win signed copies of "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social) by Michael Oriard and "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World" (@haymarketbooks.org) by @vickyacab.bsky.social.
READ FREE! Volume 66.1 (A rare all-Portuguese edition of Romance Notes) is available to read free on Project MUSE for one month 👏 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57093
Project MUSE - Romance Notes-Volume 66, Number 1, 2026
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The only thing better than a book is a book you didn't pay full price for 🤭 You can use code 01HISTORY250 for 35% off + free US shipping on orders over $75 on all history books (distributed books not included) on our site all month long 🙌
Given the recent interest in the Islamic Republic of Japan, it might be a good time to remind folks that I wrote a book about Islam and the Japanese Empire: @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/979889086031...
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan’s challenges to Chinese nation-building...
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It's true! The Supreme Court was a political institution by design & in practice during the nation's first century. And you can read all about it when my book is out in October with @uncpress.bsky.social
Phil Feller@philfeller.bsky.social · 4w ago@rachelshelden.bsky.social has a book coming out in October that examines the history of the Court as a political institution. uncpress.org/978146969713...
Today's featured book: Samira K. Mehta, "God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion," University of North Carolina Press, 2026 @uncpress.bsky.social @samirakmehta.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969342...
"This was my first time attending AUPresses in person . . . and I came home with a full notebook and a very full publishing cup." On substack, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social shares her experience attending this year's @aupresses.bsky.social annual meeting 👏 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...
A Book Publicist's Notes from AUPresses 2026
Every year the Association of University Presses holds its annual meeting, alternating between virtual and in-person formats.
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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/
Mexican and Chinese histories intersect in this vivid account of Los Angeles’s urban borderlands. URBAN BORDERLANDS by Isabela Seong Leong Quintana is the latest book in our Gender and American Cultures series and is out now 👏 uncpress.org/978146967580...
