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📚 Publishing distinguished books and journals for academics, students, and general readers for over a century
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Just recorded a great interview with Monday Night Talk on 95.9FM WATD about #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social). Segment will air around 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17. You can catch it here. Click "For Listeners," then "Listen Live Online" 959watd.com/monday-night...
Monday Night Talk with Kevin Tocci | WATD 95.9 FM
Monday Night Talk is a 2 hour radio show that’s broadcast Monday Nights 6:15 – 8:00 p.m. Host Kevin Tocci talks about a variety of topics like local & national politics, community-based issues, politi...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just recorded a great interview with Monday Night Talk on 95.9FM WATD about #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social). Segment will air around 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17. You can catch it here. Click "For Listeners," then "Listen Live Online" 959watd.com/monday-night...
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The week... IN HELL!
TUESDAY:
@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social)
WEDNESDAY:
Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social)
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TUESDAY:
@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social)
WEDNESDAY:
Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social)
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THE WEEK IN HELL! Nationalism and Football! | This Is Hell!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The week... IN HELL!
TUESDAY:
@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social)
WEDNESDAY:
Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social)
www.patreon.com/posts/week-i...
TUESDAY:
@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social)
WEDNESDAY:
Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social)
www.patreon.com/posts/week-i...
Looking for more Civil War books to add to your shelf? Check out @cwmonitor.bsky.social's Best Civil War Books of 2025 featuring a bunch of UNC Press titles 👏
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The Best Civil War Books of 2025
What were the best Civil War history books published in 2025? A panel of historians offers their picks.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Looking for more Civil War books to add to your shelf? Check out @cwmonitor.bsky.social's Best Civil War Books of 2025 featuring a bunch of UNC Press titles 👏
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
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Me: “maybe I won’t read so much”
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Me: “maybe I won’t read so much”
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
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Another amazing conversation with @SaadiaKhan for Immigrantly podcast about my book Fighting for Control! Check out out the episode in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Another amazing conversation with @SaadiaKhan for Immigrantly podcast about my book Fighting for Control! Check out out the episode in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social
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The #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) book tour continues with a home game at Nichols College at 3 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Conant Library. Open to all. Come get some snacks and a book!
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) book tour continues with a home game at Nichols College at 3 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Conant Library. Open to all. Come get some snacks and a book!
Heading into a meeting—let’s see how many UNC Press authors can drop a comment by the time we're done!
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Heading into a meeting—let’s see how many UNC Press authors can drop a comment by the time we're done!
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Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...
How the Heartland Responded to AIDS and Shaped Queer Politics
Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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@uncpress.bsky.social thanks for publishing great books!
Buy Mila's work here: uncpress.org/978146968963...
Buy Mila's work here: uncpress.org/978146968963...
Dictatorship across Borders
This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil’s pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South Amer...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@uncpress.bsky.social thanks for publishing great books!
Buy Mila's work here: uncpress.org/978146968963...
Buy Mila's work here: uncpress.org/978146968963...
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Black Marxism demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate
Available in person at #HMLondon2025 or online ⬇️
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Available in person at #HMLondon2025 or online ⬇️
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@histmat.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Black Marxism demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate
Available in person at #HMLondon2025 or online ⬇️
buff.ly/qcBV60f
@histmat.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
Available in person at #HMLondon2025 or online ⬇️
buff.ly/qcBV60f
@histmat.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
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How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
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Excited to host Night 1 of the New England Historical Association conference at Nichols College. And at 9 p.m., I'll be on @wbznewsradio.bsky.social NightSide w/Dan Rea talking about #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) & US strikes near Venezuela. Listen online here: wbznewsradio.iheart.com
WBZ NewsRadio 1030 - Boston's News Radio
WBZ NewsRadio is the home of Traffic and Weather Together on the 3s. Breaking news when it happens. Boston's source for local news. Listen on your radio at 1030AM in Boston or take us anywhere with th...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excited to host Night 1 of the New England Historical Association conference at Nichols College. And at 9 p.m., I'll be on @wbznewsradio.bsky.social NightSide w/Dan Rea talking about #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) & US strikes near Venezuela. Listen online here: wbznewsradio.iheart.com
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Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social
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Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
It Is Not Enough to Survive
Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
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I'm very excited to sign a new contract for my next book with @uncpress.bsky.social. 🥂
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm very excited to sign a new contract for my next book with @uncpress.bsky.social. 🥂
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
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Spotted at the @uncpress.bsky.social booth at the Southern Historical Association meeting. Many thanks to @kathleenconti.bsky.social for snapping these photos.
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spotted at the @uncpress.bsky.social booth at the Southern Historical Association meeting. Many thanks to @kathleenconti.bsky.social for snapping these photos.
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Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.
Secular Sensibilities amidst French and Québécois Politics
Political leaders have stressed the importance of buttressing “secularism,” framed as a separation of undesirable religion from a public sphere.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.
ICYMI: @aravensgrace.bsky.social was on @wunc.org Due South talking about fungi and her new book FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Listen here 👇🎧
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Listen here 👇🎧
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Fungus among us: new book explores the human connections of fungi. Plus, an analysis of Durham election results.
What happened in the municipal elections? We get morning after analysis on races in Durham – and turn our ears to Greensboro, Fayetteville, and a referendum in Charlotte. Plus, a new book on fungi, an...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ICYMI: @aravensgrace.bsky.social was on @wunc.org Due South talking about fungi and her new book FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
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Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
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Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
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Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration
By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
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The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
UI professor, first-time author Ashley Howard talks about books that inspire her
The history and African American Studies professor published her first book in June.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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New This Week: November 4th - UNC Press Blog
It’s New Books Tuesday and publishing today we have two new releases that offer fresh perspectives on race, space, and power in the United States. The Undesirable Many, part of our acclaimed Justice, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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The Heritage Foundation recently published a "Guide to Historic Sites" in advance of the 250th. They review sites for "accuracy" and "ideological bias." There's, well, a lot to take in, but here's one thing I noticed about its discussion of slavery and the founders. /1 historicsites.heritage.org
The Heritage Foundation's Guide to Historic Sites
Explore America's most treasured historic sites with the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites that assesses sites based on historical accuracy and comprehension, proportionality, and ideological bias for ...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Heritage Foundation recently published a "Guide to Historic Sites" in advance of the 250th. They review sites for "accuracy" and "ideological bias." There's, well, a lot to take in, but here's one thing I noticed about its discussion of slavery and the founders. /1 historicsites.heritage.org