a new book by @drshabazzz.bsky.social, from @uncpress.bsky.social, shouted out in the NY Times! you love to see it!

“Prince’s genius was that he took the Black-inflected music from the community where he was born — Minneapolis’s Near North Side — and synthesized that with the city’s other sounds,” @drshabazzz.bsky.social (author of Prince’s Minneapolis) said.

You don't want to miss this conversation about ICE, racial justice, and resistance moderated by @dnbrgr.bsky.social with UNC Press authors @tinashull.bsky.social, Ashley Howard, and Felicia Arriaga ▶️ youtu.be/u5a8HG0Vv-c?...

I'm quoted at length in this piece, but not sure anyone can get around the paywall. Nevertheless, I talked about how these new panels are a missed opportunity to invite Americans into the full depth and complexity of Washington's legacy with slavery and emancipation. www.eenews.net/articles/nps...

You can now pre-order my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw direct from @uncpress.bsky.social and they are now running a 30% off sale. Perfect timing. What a thrill to see it listed in the "Civil War America" series. uncpress.org/978146969717...

Y’all, the preorder links for The Political Supreme Court are here! Direct from UNC Press: uncpress.org/978146969713... Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Amazon: a.co/d/08lXOMa7 Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-politi...

I wrote No Common Ground, in part, to help communities address the landscapes of their towns. Because the real work happens at the local level. Glenna Moore of Franklin, VA, led the campaign to erect a USCT monument & change the narrative in her part of VA. Not all sheroes wear capes. 🗃️

I met Flavor Flav today and gave him a copy of my book (he and the WBAU crew are in it!), and he signed a copy I keep for autographs - next to Harry Allen’s, who signed it earlier. 🤩

It's publication day for **THY WILL BE DONE: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S LEGACY OF SLAVERY AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICAN MEMORY** at last! I have a new piece at @time.com about what our struggle to remember George Washington and slavery can teach us as we commemorate the 250th. time.com/article/2026...

Come check out today's Ask Me Anything over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! @uncpress.bsky.social

I can't stress enough how excited I am for this book!! Rachel's work has added so much depth to my understanding of the nineteenth-century Court—in ways that have so many meaningful ramifications for how we talk and think about #SCOTUS today. I'll pass along a preorder link as soon as it exists.

Pre-Order "A Glorious Fate" Today + Information about the Book Tour #CivilWarMemory #BookSky cc: @uncpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Everything I see from the W. Hodding Carter III imprint is a book I want.

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

"Most of us on it are looking for fellow travelers, like passengers on a plane making eye contact during turbulence. With her new memoir, Light Falls on Everything ... author Rebecca McClanahan is that kind stranger who grabs your hand when it feels all is about to be shaken from the sky."

Welcome back to the 12 Days of Book Promo. Just 12 days until **THY WILL BE DONE** is released! In 1932, the US Post Office produced a set of 12 commemorative stamps to mark George Washington's 200th birthday, which was the subject of a massive national celebration that year. /1

Part II is out today! alexiscoe.substack.com/p/a-new-wash...

Folks in the Boston area: I'll be speaking about my book at the Cambridge Public Library at 6pm on Monday (3/30)! Still seats available. This will be the first true book event for me, and there will be copies for sale/signing—a week in advance! See you there! cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/15462659

At long last, after years of hard work, I am holding it in my hands. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** comes out on April 7. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

ICE Can’t Silence Prince’s Minneapolis Enough said. But read on for more excellent analysis from @drshabazzz.bsky.social, who examines the city and the fight over who controls it www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ice-cant-sil...

This meticulous study from historian [Russell] Rickford spotlights a dramatic time in Guyana...Wide-ranging and evenhanded, this offers a fascinating overview of a dynamic time and place. What a review for A PROXY AFRICA, in @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9781469690803

Is now… a good time to revisit year one of the Hubert Davis era or should we circle back 😬

An incredible first review for Rebecca McClanahan’s new caregiving memoir —“ light giving” is the best way to describe it. @uncpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...

If you are working on a book manuscript in international history during any part or the long 20th century, consider the Interconnections book series🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social - we're here for you! @juliairwin.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social uncpress.org/series/inter...

Washington freed the people he enslaved. That’s the story we’re told. The reality was something different. A Q&A with @johngmarks.com on his great new book—the first of two. It’s that important. open.substack.com/pub/alexisco...

😅 It was a privilege to listen in - we can’t wait to share this one. Big thanks to @dnbrgr.bsky.social for moderatin, and to our brilliant panelists @tinashull.bsky.social, Ashley Howard, and Felicia Arriaga.

I appeared on Cleveland's Ideastream where I and two guest I recommended discussed high school underground newspapers in Northeast Ohio (info from my book, High School Students Unite!, published by @uncpress.bsky.social . It aired in the morning and here is the edited video: youtu.be/l4pYi3WyPtA?...

2025 was a big year here at UNC Press! Check out our annual report for highlights, milestones, and the people behind it all 💚 uncpress.org/annual-report/

Can confirm @lucaschurch.bsky.social is friendly and @uncpress.bsky.social has books at #AWP26.

hahaha duke (i do need them to beat siena for my bracket but this is so funny and great).

So honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, will be the first in the new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint from @uncpress.bsky.social. For those attending #OAH2026, please join us for a celebration of the new imprint! Pre-order the book here! tinyurl.com/mwcc4977

THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS audiobook, read by the amazing Heni Zoutomou, is one year old. To celebrate, audiobooks.com are offering 70% off (+ 2 more books for free!). Only $6 - deal is good until 31st March! 🗃️ @sonyabonczek.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

This looks really interesting, and anyone who agrees might also like the excellent Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social.

Mary Mendoza's DEADLY DIVIDE (April) brilliantly shows that ideas about race and ideas about nature have always been intertwined at the border, revealing how environments and bodies shaped a contested landscape. Historians of the US‑Mexico borderlands, the environment, and race-relations: take note!

Your periodic reminder that there is thoughtful, history-based 250th anniversary programming at your state museums, local historical societies, and other institutions—no matter where you live. The White House doesn't control the 250th and doesn't get to tell you how to commemorate it.

The way I look at it, if you preorder a book 8 months before its publication, when you get it it's basically free.

Beautiful.

Readers who love nonfiction will always read nonfiction. The real shift isn’t demand, it’s attention. Books are competing in a much louder ecosystem now, but long-form thinking still and always will matter!

"If you're a writer—any sort of a writer, really—in search of an audience, you will find so much that's invaluable in this candid, spirited, and openhearted handbook." - @bcdreyer.social on #ThePublicScholar. Which you can pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

While washing dishes & hanging laundry this weekend, I listened to this convo on book publicity btw @draftingthepast.bsky.social & @sonyabonczek.bsky.social. Great Qs & great As! #skystorians, if your book's coming out in the near future, take a listen! draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

UNC Press has been one of most active partners in this effort and so many great AMAs have come from this! Its been fantastic bringing one of my favorite catalogs to more people! With more coming soon!

As one of the university presses lucky enough to work with Dan on these: WE LOVE ASKHISTORIANS! Our historians genuinely have a wonderful time doing it & the reach & depth of engagement is A+. Grateful to Dan & the @askhistorians.bsky.social team for helping great history find a big audience.

"Rolling Stone is more than a music magazine; it is a historical artifact reflecting the times...An engaging cultural history with relevant insight into late 20th-c American society." 🌟 @libraryjournal.bsky.social reviews Charles Ponce de Leon's fab new book www.libraryjournal.com/review/rolli...

We need dreams! Dreams make history, even big ones that don’t come true. I’ll be talking about world-changing dreams at @amantiquarian.bsky.social on Thursday (3/5) @ 7 ET. Register for this free hybrid event here: www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve... 🗃️ #skystorians

A gorgeous cover for Richard Schweid’s new book that explores the q: should we farm a creature that has consciousness? LIFE ON THE OCTOPUS FARM coming Aug. 2026, galleys for media available now (email in bio) 🐙 @uncpress.bsky.social

Yeah man it's a real mystery

That is some tragic history-making from a self-proclaimed ‘peace’ president🗃️

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/) www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

Less than two weeks before the Alexandria Festival of the Book, 14 March 2026. The festival is free. See below for registration. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social www.alexvabookfest.org

March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as you can, & solidarity, all! 🗃️ +