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UNC Press
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Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with this reading list on the history of the US Constitution 🇺🇸📚
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UNC Press
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Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with this reading list on the history of the US Constitution 🇺🇸📚
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Duke Alumni Summer Reads 2024 includes MAKING THE LATINO SOUTH: A History of Racial Formation by Cecilia Márquez and ON THE SWAMP: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice by Ryan Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social 👏👏
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Viola Müller
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“Escape to the City provides us with one of the most thought-provoking portraits of the urban South yet published,”
writes James Illingworth in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
So generous!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to review my book!
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New on UNC Press Presents podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Felicia Arriaga discusses BEHIND CRIMMIGRATION: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America. Stream/subscribe, or 🎧 via Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts.
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New on the UNC Press Presents podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social / Radio ReOrient, Shabana Mir discusses her book MUSLIM AMERICAN WOMEN ON CAMPUS: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity. Stream/subscribe, or 🎧 via Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts.
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The End of Sport
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Shamelessly, preorder @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social's new @uncpress.bsky.social book *The End of College Football*:
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Jesse Chanin, postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University's Coalition for Compassionate Schools, is interviewed by Current regarding their recently published book, BUILDING POWER, BREAKING POWER: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008. currentpub.com/2024/07/02/t...
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New on @realmsofmemory.bsky.social podcast: UNC Charlotte historian and professor emerita @drkarenlcox.bsky.social discusses NO COMMON GROUND: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.
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Paul Renfro
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If you’re looking to review my forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book, I’ve got some galleys to share. Give me a holler if you’re interested! 🗃️
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Historian Chris Holaday discussed his new book, CRACKS IN THE OUTFIELD WALL, on the deep history of the 'slow and unsteady' integration of North Carolina's professional baseball leagues, with Leoneda Inge on today's Due South WUNC.
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It’s less than four months until publication day for my new book! As many of you know, preorders are crucial to a book’s success. So if you haven’t ordered your copy yet, please consider doing so at the @uncpress.bsky.social website or wherever you get your books! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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UNC Press
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New today: "America, the Dumping Ground," the New Rambler's review of GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, by Andrew McKevitt.
Read it here: newramblerreview.com/book-reviews...
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“Joseph M. Thompson argues in his book ‘Cold War Country’ that the Pentagon recognized country music’s potential to not only cater to servicemen’s tastes, but also to entice potential recruits — from rural, disenfranchised white communities in the South.”—Teen Vogue www.teenvogue.com/story/countr...
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Psst! We have some audiobook recommendations for you this Audiobook Awareness Month! 👇🎧📖
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Malinda Maynor Lowery's "2018 book, 'The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle,' written with the help of an NEH Public Scholars grant, combines history with memoir to challenge the black-and-white biracial picture many have of Southern history."– via NEH Humanities
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UNC Press
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In the newest episode of Writing Latinos @publicbooks.bsky.social, Gerry Cadava speaks with @drsarahmac.bsky.social about her new book “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South,” a deeply personal history of the Florida city where she grew up. buff.ly/3zjAgJn
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Felicidades Rebekah Pite, ganadora del Mejor Libro de Ciencias Sociales 2024 del LASA CONO SUR, LASA Congress por SHARING YERBA MATE: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region 🎉🎉🎉
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"'This is not the kind of project for just anyone,' he wrote in his final book, the posthumously published 'One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia' (University of North Carolina Press, 2013)." —via Bitter Southerner
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“Everywhere the Undrowned” Is a Wrenching Story of Survival. In 1973, Stephanie Clare Smith, then 14, was abducted, raped at knifepoint, and let down by the adults in her life. Her poetic new memoir reckons with the aftermath. — via INDY Week
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The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC announces Southern/Modern, the first exhibition to present a comprehensive survey of works by artists working in the American South in the first half of the 20th century (exhibition catalogue published by UNC Press). Opening 10/26/24.
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“Li offers a sorely needed, vindicating biography in ‘Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of Transgender Revolution.’” Alison Li's book is reviewed in H-Sci-Med-Tech: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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@drewmckevitt.bsky.social's GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America "is accessible, informative, and should appeal to readers of any background.”—from the review in Current
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"In a recently published memoir, 'What Side Are You On?,' Wilson blames a US border policy of deterrence – blocking irregular migration at urban crossing points – for driving asylum seekers into Tohono O’odham lands."
www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/a... via @cnn.com
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Proofs of *The End of College Football* have arrived.
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Preorders of *The End of College Football* are available for 30% off from the @uncpress.bsky.social website with the code 01SOCIAL30.
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UNC Press
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H-Diplo reviews AWAKENING THE ASHES: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene Daut, a "sweeping, incisive volume on early Haitian literature."
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Congratulations Brian Michael Murphy and WE THE DEAD: Preserving Data at the End of the World, winner of the New England American Studies Association's Lois P. Rudnick Award 🎉
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Kevin M. Levin
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I spy a copy of Searching for Black Confederates. Get it now at 30% off. 🗃️ uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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🚨🚨MICHAEL WITGEN KLAXON 🚨🚨
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I’m hearing reports that galley copies of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE have arrived at the
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Recent Books on Justice and Incarceration, including RAP AND REDEMPTION ON DEATH ROW: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Alim Braxton and Mark Katz pen.org/recent-books... via PEN America
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Congratulations Elizabeth Giddens @kennesawstate, winner of this year's Georgia Author of the Year Award in History for OCONALUFTEE: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley 🎉🎉🎉
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Hey Civil War Historians 👋 If you're at #SCWH be sure to stop by our table to see all of our books on display 📚 #SCWH
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Ten must-read science histories via Science Magazine, including THE EXPERIENTIAL CARIBBEAN: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo F. Gómez —"a must-read."
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“It became an all too effective strategy to talk about race without talking about race,” says Zebulon Miletsky, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University and author of 'Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle.'" @wbur.org
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In his new book, "Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey," Evan Dalton Smith explores grief, Southernness and fatherhood. Leoneda Inge spoke with Smith on WUNC Due South: www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
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A Legacy of Plunder: In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work—and SEEING RED (published with Omohundro Institute)—is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American history. www.nybooks.com/articles/202... —NYRB
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Many of the players we spoke to for our forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* shared Burrow's experiences with head trauma in the sport.
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UNC Press
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Indigenous Belonging and the Swamp Forests of North Carolina: a discussion with Professor Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social, author of ON THE SWAMP: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, on Skipped History skippedhistory.substack.com/p/indigenous...
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Congratulations to Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey @mcgillu.bsky.social for earning the 2024 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for his book, CROSS-BORDER COSMOPOLITANS: The Making of a Pan-African North America 🎉🎉
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Explore the history of black athletes in golf and the story of the Mapledale Country Club with Lane Demas, author of GAME OF PRIVILEGE: An African American History of Golf, Wednesday 6/26🏌️
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Happy Juneteenth! Here's some cool reading options from @uncpress.bsky.social and if you want 30% off just use the code 01HATM30 when you're checking out.
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Lisa Materson
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Thrilled to see my book _Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence_ in this amazing lineup of Fall 2024 UNC Press books!
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Happy #Juneteenth! Looking to expand your knowledge on the history of slavery and emancipation in the US?
Check out this reading list 👇
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Excellent #Juneteenth essay from EATING WHILE BLACK’s Psyche Williams-Forson,After the Day After: Juneteenth celebrations and the realities of freedom,” via @oxfordamerican.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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UNC Press
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The Author’s Corner interview with John K. Bardes, author of "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930," on Current blog
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Aimee Loiselle
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Thank you El Centro for promoting my book in your summer books to read!*!* I did multiple trips to these archives, one of the big images comes from "Nosotras Trabajamos en la Costura"
Look for my book at 6:20
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UNC Press
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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Joseph Jewell discusses WHITE MAN'S WORK: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era, via The Gilded Age and Progressive Era podcast
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UNC Press
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How the U.S. became 'Gun Country:' listen to Jeff Tiberii speak with Andrew McKevitt on Due South WUNC Radio.
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"Ilan Stavans, a professor of Jewish and Latin American culture at Amherst College in Massachusetts, remains so connected to his Mexican upbringing that he’s co-written a forthcoming cookbook, 'Sabor Judio,' with Margaret Boyle."—via Jewish Daily Forward
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