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09/09/2024

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau’s world.
 
Sara E. Johnson talks about her book ENCYCLOPÉDIE NOIRE: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World in this recent episode of the UNC Press Presents Podcast 👏

🎧 listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the link in our bio

09/09/2024

In 1774, many people in thirteen of Great Britain’s North American colonies were angry. They had been ordered to pay money—taxes—to the government. How...

09/09/2024

Congratulations to Andrew McKevitt, whose book GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America has made the shortlist for the 2024 The Cundill History Prize

Today, McGill University announced the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, honoring books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” The winner, judged on “historical scholars…

09/09/2024

You have to read this book! | Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)Comfort and Delight by Sayantani Dasgupta (out 10/01/2024)

via L-Space Books YouTube

I was given a review copy of this book so that I could, you know, review it! So here are my thoughts about this phenomenal new essay collection by my friend ...

09/09/2024

New on UNC Press Presents Podcast via New Books Network: Sara E. Johnson discusses "Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (published by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture-UNC Press); stream/subscribe, or listen via Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts: https://newbooksnetwork.com/encyclop%C3%A9die-noire

09/06/2024

UNC College of Arts and Sciences's September featured 'Bookmark This' book is CLOVER GARDEN: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir by Bland Simpson, illustrated with photographs by Ann Cary Simpson (on sale 9/24/25). Read the Q&A with Bland:

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people. The September featured book is "Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir " by Bland Simpson, illustrated with photographs by Ann Cary Simpson.

09/06/2024

Ok we’re dying to know, what book are you reading today to celebrate ?! 📖📚

09/06/2024

✨SAVE THE DATE✨Thursday, Sept. 26th, 6:30pm, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - SNFL, NYPL hosts a NYC launch event for Sabor Judío: The Jew­ish Mex­i­can Cookbook, with Ilan Sta­vans and Mar­garet E. Boyle (a Ferris and Ferris Book)

Books will be for sale via NYPL. Free to attend w/RSVP:

In this delicious work, authors Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle celebrate the culinary traditions of Jewish Mexican cuisine across the centuries. At this program, they will discuss the delectable culinary history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present, illustrating how flavors and....

09/05/2024

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09/05/2024

Congratulations GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt , selected for the 2024 shortlist! 🎉

09/05/2024

Today at 5pm hosted by UNC African Studies Center at UNC-Chapel Hill Library Stone Center: Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha discusses VODOU EN VOGUE: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674018/vodou-en-vogue/

09/03/2024

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GEORGANN!!! 🍾🎂

The American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the edge of erasure.

09/03/2024

We are delighted to be working with author and professor Ericka Verba on her forthcoming book, "Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra" by University of North Carolina Press.

Ericka Verba is Director and Professor of Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests include the cultural Cold War, the role of music in social movements, and the intersection of gender and class politics in twentieth-century Latin America. She has received grants from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a founding member of SCALAS (Southern California Association of Latin American Studies) and the recipient of the E. Bradford Burns Award for service to the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.

She is the author of the book "Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra." Her interest in Violeta Parra dates back to her early teens in the 1970s when she became friends with a Chilean family of musicians and artists who taught Verba her first Violeta Parra songs and guided her political awakening to the brutality of the Pinochet dictatorship and the role of the US government in installing and supporting it. As a musician and founding member of the US-based New Song groups Sabiá and Desborde, she has been performing Parra’s music since 1976. In 1980, she wrote her undergraduate honors senior thesis on Parra’s autobiography in verse. In 1996, She was the musical director and arranger for a tribute concert to Violeta Parra, supported by an Artists in the Community grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and recorded and released as Desborde, Tribute Concert to Violeta Parra. As a professor of Latin American History since 2004, she has welded her research on the history of women in Chile with her interest in Parra to acquire a deeper understanding of the social context and gender dynamics that shaped Parra’s life. Suffice to say, Verba’s book represents the culmination of a decades-long curiosity about Violeta Parra and engagement with her work.

09/03/2024

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Information on a new initiative to publish children's books on historical topics.

09/03/2024

In memory of Peter S. Carmichael Gettysburg College, the new fall issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era has made the article/transcript of 2023's Fortenbaugh Lecture—which Peter moderated—available to read via Project MUSE without paywall for 90 days.

We are saddened by the passing of Professor Peter S. Carmichael, a remarkable historian who made significant contributions in the field of Civil War studies. UNC Press is honored to have worked with him on many projects over the years, including most recently The War That Made America: Essays Inspi...

09/03/2024

🎧⬇️, and: Chris Cooper's ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE: A North Carolina Politics Primer is available for preorder, and on sale 10/15/24!

On the new The News & Observer Under the Dome podcast, Cooper discusses the NC governor's race, presidential campaigning, Council of State & more.

Start your week in with our Under the Dome podcast.

09/03/2024

New on Nostalgia Trap: Joseph Thompson discusses COLD WAR COUNTRY: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism. Listen via your fav podcast service, or via YouTube:

Joseph M. Thompson is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, and the author of Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the P...

09/03/2024

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"By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history." -- University of North Carolina Press
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469672113/cross-border-cosmopolitans/

08/30/2024

The product of two award-winning, internationally known Jewish Mexican writers and foodies, SABOR JUDÍO celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican and offers a a vibrant history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present.

Available everywhere books are sold in October but available for pre-order now 🧑‍🍳 📖

08/30/2024

08/29/2024

8 recent Civil War history books by UVA authors, featuring ENDS OF WAR by Caroline Janney, THE GENERAL'S CIVIL WAR by Stephen Cushman, and THE DEMOCRATIC COLLAPSE by Lauren Haumesser—via UVA Alumni Association

These works by alumni and faculty illuminate new findings about this pivotal era

08/29/2024

SEASHELLS OF NORTH CAROLINA, Revised and Expanded Edition by North Carolina Sea Grant , edited by Katie Mosher is available now wherever books and e-books are sold.

Seashell enthusiasts teamed up to revise and expand the decades-old "Seashells of North Carolina" written in 1997 by Hugh Porter, who had a 55-year career at UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, and Lynn Houser.