📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨ This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...

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...

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...

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/

Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @pantheonbooks.bsky.social A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and

My alma mater published a nice interview with me in their magazine where I talk about my book and experience as an undergrad. magazine.lynchburg.edu/article/hist...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Terrific review of @jlepler.bsky.social's "eloquent history of Nicaragua’s canal proposals during the 1820s."

Great Circle Books is 2 for 2! Both of the first 2 titles in the series have earned starred reviews from Kirkus: Stephanie Smith’s EVERYWHERE THE UNDROWNED started us off and now Maria Pinto’s FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS earns that 🌟

"What’s the cost of an entangled life?" Read an excerpt from Maria Pinto's FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS today in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/on-zombie-an...

Excited for this UNC press/Proia/carceral double header in my course today

How does one recover from and process a generational storm like Helene? For UNC Press author @shuffard.bsky.social and his friends, the answer was through music. Learn about the making of their band Spell of Leaves and their new single Old Fort Loops ⤵️ uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/o...

Scheduling at historical institutions is a temperature taking, and tertiary to the main issues. I'm reading this morning that most SNAP benefits will expire by November 4th, including ones subsidized by state governments. It'll affect - get ready - forty million Americans. 40,000,000.

In honor of the anniversary of the day 63 years ago when Khrushchev decided to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba, I have a piece in Time magazine reflecting on the importance of alliances: time.com/7327385/less... #History🗃️ Huge thanks to @carlygoodman.bsky.social and @cmcknichols.bsky.social

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

"A rewarding portrait...Astutely portrays how Diggs’s personal failures and weaknesses counterbalanced his impressive professional strengths and prematurely ended a career of no little significance." @thewallstreet.bsky.social reviews Marion Orr's HOUSE OF DIGGS www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

So @williamfleitch.bsky.social, for @theatlantic.com, calls @drderrickewhite.bsky.social's BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS "Fascinating...A rollicking read...Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the trajectory of modern football." And I agree! www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

I'm reading this this week and all the lil fungus freaks are gonna LOVE IT.

Earlier this month UNC Press Director @jesherer.bsky.social was @flyleafbooks.bsky.social to share insights on how the publishing world is navigating the age of AI, censorship, and disinformation. ▶️ Watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqG...

My job is cooler than your job because I get to go to a @flyleafbooks.bsky.social book launch for Alice Gerrard's memoir at the mofo @catscradlenc.bsky.social flyleafbooks.com/event/offsit...

I'm new here, but I just had to share! My book, The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop through @uncpress.bsky.social Follow along on my website: www.sharronconrad.com

@hkyria.bsky.social: “The sunlight hit your skirt just right and turned your office pink!” 💖 Me: 🤩

Have a taste of one of the most remarkable books I’ve read in a long time: FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by Maria Pinto. If this doesn't make you order the book then I dunno what to tell you. longreads.com/2025/10/16/t... @longreads.com

Today's the official pub day for the Fate of the Americas, so that means my AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social is live! Eeeek!! I hope I sound smart and don't embarrass myself! Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social and @sonyabonczek.bsky.social for setting it up! #History #AskMeAnything

Tomorrow is my book's official pub date! I'm celebrating by tackling a whole new social media platform and hosting an #AskMeAnything on Reddit! Join me and ask me anything about my book, the Cuban Missile Crisis, my hobbies, publishing...whatever! @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

@aravensgrace.bsky.social, author of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS, is the inaugural Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA) writer-in-residence 👏 thesandb.com/52848/news/m...

This is your every now and then reminder that if you got to @uncpress.bsky.social website and enter 01HATM30 you’ll get 30% off of any title. I don’t get anything for it, but it’s a nice thing for my readers and the #HATM community. uncpress.org

Team @uncpress.bsky.social took a field trip to the NC Botanical Garden this morning for a behind-the-scenes tour, complete with giant bottle gourds and a front-row seat to carpenter bees escaping from a carnivorous tropical pitcher plant! 🌿🐝

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago. So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate! How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery? Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

My new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET (about the intersections between magical thinking and tech innovation) is officially available for pre-order via @mitpress.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

Hey Triangle friends!!!! Wanna go to Sleepyfest this weekend? www.sleepycatrec.com/sleepyfest

The number of registered Democrats in NC is declining. So is the number of registered Republicans rising? Find out in this @theassemblync.bsky.social piece by @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social, author of ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE 🗳️ www.theassemblync.com/politics/dem...

"I asked Chat GPT" Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

✨ An inspiring evening at the NC State Archives with @unchistory.bsky.social profs Fitzhugh Brundage, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, and Joseph Glatthaar to celebrate the publication of Foundations of American Democracy. Now available to all North Carolinians via a free digital edition on NC LIVE! 📚

A few of months ago, I had a great conversation with John P. Hastings about my book Noisy Memory (with @uncpress.bsky.social). Now, it is an article in The Brooklyn Rail! We talked re: archives, creative process, and Appalachian Ohio. brooklynrail.org/2025/10/musi... #noisymemory #appalachianohio

If you're looking for gripping true crime x Appalachia x memoir, check out Tim Silver's DEATH IN BRIAR BOTTOM. V good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

"Zombies! Poison! Colonialism! Adventure! Mutual Aid! Maria Pinto's energetic use of language, irony, & humor will leave you grinning. Personal, daring, and utterly delightful." Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless in @orionmagazine.bsky.social 🍄‍🟫📖 orionmagazine.org/article/2025...

The Final Draft of *A Glorious Fate* Is Off To the Publisher open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Love to see INTREPID GIRLS by @amyefarrell.bsky.social on @bookculture.com's most anticipated new books for October list! www.bookculture.com/blog/2025/09...

October 8: Hear from these 3 acquisition editors at Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book: - Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social - Dominique Moore, @illinoispress.bsky.social - Mike Baccam @mikebaccam.bsky.social, @uwapress.bsky.social ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

How is publishing adapting to digital formats, political pressures, and a fractured information landscape? Find out from Spangler Family Director, @jesherer.bsky.social, next week (October 8th) @flyleafbooks.bsky.social Get your tickets now 🎟️ 👇 humanities.unc.edu/event/humani...

I’m taking orders for advance review copies so hit me up

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

Unfortunately I do love: a Ken Burns documentary www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Please check out this thread about my undergrad advisor at UNC and an absolute legend in the field of political history, Bill Leuchtenburg.

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

INTREPID GIRLS by @amyefarrell.bsky.social are here! The cover looks hand-stitched 😍😍😍

We are back!!! In this episode I interview my co-host Boyd Cothran about his recent book, _The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the Workd in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914_, published by @uncpress.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...