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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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.
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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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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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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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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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