Check out our conversation with Mary Mendoza about her new book, Deadly Divide, just out from @uncpress.bsky.social! About blurring human-animal divides, and the application to immigrants language about cattle, lice, etc.

I certainly don't want to remind anyone that they have to teach in August BUT if you're teaching about 20th-century US history and want a provocative take on a subject of high popular interest, check out GUN COUNTRY. I would also be delighted to Zoom into your class!

Let's start a thread of UNC Press books you've assigned and which classes you've used them in ☺️

A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today. Review of WHITE POWER by @gauthamrao.bsky.social in @theartsfuse.bsky.social

Memorial Day weekend in colonial Williamsburg

“Cubans and Cuban Americans deserve more than endless historical war, or symbolic indictments in a U.S. court. They deserve the possibility of a new national story — one that is all their own.” @mjbusta.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com

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Headed to Colonial Williamsburg tomorrow with the kids and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED to see the printing press in action, obsess over the harpsichord makers, cast my vote for the innocence of the Virginia Witch, go on a ghost tour, join the 2d Virginia regiment, churn some butter, etc. etc.!!

Three signs that bookclub email you just got is probably a scam 🚩 1) Generic gmail (or similar) address 2) The book club, award, or organization doesn’t exist when you look it up 3) The email is overly long, vague, and full of excessive praise (often AI-written)

Few people have had more of an impact on my understanding of the nineteenth century than historian Douglas Egerton. I am honored that he has endorsed my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw. cc: @uncpress.bsky.social amzn.to/4uSy2Iq

If I wasn't flying out to Seattle for @aupresses.bsky.social conference the next day I would be hauling myself up to DC for this conversation between @gauthamrao.bsky.social and @ibramxk.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social next month! politics-prose.com/gautham-rao-...

Someone read Stephen King's IT in one sitting, 6am to 8pm. I have decided to do this (not IT, will choose something entirely and utterly different and also much shorter) on my birthday next week.

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If you’d like to know the story behind the art on the cover of my book (and, unlikely me, can read this article without grumbling “but my book!”) this review of the Titus Kaphar show at VMFA is great.

DC area friends please join me for my book launch event at People's Book in Takoma Park MD (@peoplesbooktakoma.com) Tuesday, May 19 6:30 pm! The brilliant Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress will lead a brief discussion before mingling and book signing! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/polici...

Events this week with @dgorganize.bsky.social, @gauthamrao.bsky.social, @ahjohnson.bsky.social and more.

It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Within five minutes of sending off the corrections to the page proofs I received a couple copies of the ARC in the mail. Thanks @uncpress.bsky.social.

My 10yo earned his Black Belt today 🥋🥹

3 left in this giveaway!

I’m stoked to be live on Reddit @askhistorians.bsky.social today talking about my book, Opium Slavery, and answering questions about the history of drugs. Join us and ask me anything! 🗃️ www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

More to come but I will say this: the liberal institutional infrastructure of mobility is gone. People are mad. Women are people. No one is speaking to that anger. Midterms soon come. But that’s just the start. Here lies the girlboss. First to die but not the last. Good riddance.

🧵 links an interview worthwhile for those of us involved with planning the academic side of conferences… … I’m looking for innovative ideas about how to make conferences worth the cost for exhibitors beyond having booths to sell books: more direct participation on professional development panels?

Everyone please read this and scroll down to the part where Ann talks about the hidden costs of conferences--not just the $1K+ cost of the booth but the travel expenses PLUS the shipping of books, biz cards, a stapler, pens, posters, EVERYTHING. Plus, those tables and chairs etc? RENTED BY THE ITEM.

"I go to a handful of conferences each year & my favorite part is always getting to meet our authors." We sat down with our Academic Marketing Specialist, Ann Bingham, to talk about what goes into attending a conference and how authors can make the most of them 📚 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...

Only four days left to enter for a chance to win a copy of WHITE POWER: Policing American Slavery by @gauthamrao.bsky.social on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Thanks @myhnn.bsky.social for this excerpt from my new book about the origins of slave patrols: "slave patrols were emergency measures...But if the emergency never receded, then it became the norm. So, too, did the slave patrol." www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

Getting to visit the @inquirer.com today was so cool. Tomorrow made by history launches! 🎉

Maybe I should be hanging out on reddit more? Some amazing questions!

Today @gauthamrao.bsky.social joins us to talk about his new book from @uncpress.bsky.social White Power: Policing American Slavery. Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Just me and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social chatting about her book (Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship), immigration, federalism, and academic freedom. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

We had such a fascinating discussion about migration and citizenship but my column word limit is a cruel mistress. Here's some of our discussion but strong recommend to check out her book! bookshop.org/p/books/migr...

DC-area folks: me and @clintsmithiii.bsky.social will be talking about my book, slavery, and public memory on Friday at @politicsprose.bsky.social at The Wharf. Hope to see you there.

Woohoo! Congrats, @gauthamrao.bsky.social !

Heads-up on the North Carolina Supreme Court election this year. @anitaearls.bsky.social is running for reelection - former civil rights atty, brilliant jurist. Get registered and re-elect her.

Hot off the press: @gauthamrao.bsky.social’s WHITE POWER: POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY, a sweeping history for the present, is finally here!

These remarks feature most of Roberts’ usual talking points but one quote stood out to me—that justices are “not simply part of the political process.” At a minimum, constitutional interpretation is absolutely part of the *political* process & always has been. To say otherwise is deeply unserious.

Could there be a timelier book? I think not.

“Americans have to reacquaint themselves… with the idea that we, the people, make constitutional meaning. To the extent that the Supreme Court claims broad authority to say what our Constitution means, it is in large part because we have given this authority to them through our indifference.”

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

This week on Unsung History I spoke with @gauthamrao.bsky.social about his terrific (and timely) new book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Check out our conversation and pre-order the book now!

We’re excited to welcome Sandra Korn to UNC Press! 🎉 Joining the team on May 26, she will acquire in environmental history, history of science & medicine, urban history, and labor history. Read more about Sandra and the series she will oversee in this blogpost 👇 uncpressblog.com/2026/05/05/u...

Today is the official release date for my new book about free people of color in the Civil War era. My first book events are coming up next month in the Boston area. I’ll be at the Cambridge Public Library on 5/13 and the Museum of African American History on 5/14. Both events start at 6 pm.

While we're all talking about the Supreme Court and Callais sucking shit, make sure you read this new piece about how the Supreme Court and Callais are even worse than you thought ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

More book events + a commencement address at University of Lynchburg this month! Been a busy but fun spring so far.

WATCH: Last night I had the chance to sit down for an extended conversation with Jon Stewart to talk about the state of voting rights & democracy in this country. Class was very much in session! Thank you @thedailyshow youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

In today's @nytimes.com, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.

💯 Not a single miss in the line up www.thisguysucked.com/merch