What does US intervention in Venezuela mean for Latin America and how did we get here? Authors unpack the history, policy, and implications in this must-watch discussion. Watch it here👇 youtu.be/VGlfGplYdm4

Respect to this lady, my God

We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.

"This book is as inviting, unassuming and unconventional in form as it is illuminating." Alice Gerrard's CUSTOM MADE WOMAN listed as a best music book of 2025 from @rollingstone.com 🙌 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season #academicpresses cc: @uncpress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @univpressofkansas.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A lovely remembrance of an even lovelier person. D.G. Martin made an immeasurable impact on the citizens (and readers) of North Carolina. @lucaschurch.bsky.social said it perfectly, "D.G. was, in many ways, the glue that held literary North Carolina together." uncpressblog.com/2025/12/10/r...

New bookstore alert! So thrilled to see Floodplain Books opening in Wilmington next year 🙌

BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.

📣 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...

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Twenty Years of Writing Civil War Memory: Oh, the Changes I've Seen open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Teen Vogue was one of the best voices on politics and @leximcmenamin.com was one of the reasons why. Ugh.

Stop what you're doing and check out this @wsj.com review for HOUSE OF DIGGS by @marionorrauthor.bsky.social 😎 "A rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator . . . "—David Garrow www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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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

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! 🌿🐝

A very exciting mail day (last week)! @uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social

Need Weekend Plans? We’re giving away 1 adult general admission ticket to Sleepy Fest in Saxapahaw, NC this Saturday 10/11—plus an advance reader copy of CUTOM MADE WOMAN, the upcoming memoir by folk legend Alice Gerrard. Giveaway ends Wednesday @ 11:59pm. Enter here 👇 airtable.com/appInaH4dLOe...

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Scholars, are you interested in reviewing books for the JSH? Update the editors regarding your research and reading interests here: thesha.org/book-reviewer-interest-form

Attn media/reviewers: Two new @uncpress.bsky.social titles are now up on @netgalley.bsky.social— for one month only! 📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec) 📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social (Jan '26) Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF

"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.

Let's play "how many books do you have in the Anthropic settlement"? I have 4. I bet some of you have many many more than that secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

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

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

“It’s for everyone, this book. You can go wherever you want. It’s just a place to start.” Christian Leus talks with author Kristina Gaddy and musician @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social about "Go Back and Fetch It," their new book exploring early Black music. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/FZlSn

"Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless challenges the reader to see mushrooms as more than merely an organism to be eaten, seen, or feared." Read this review of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by Maria Pinto in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History (@illinoispress.bsky.social ), fill volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information or email [email protected]. iehs.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Thank you EBONY for including Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo in this list. Kristina R. Gaddy and I are so excited that our book is finally out! Use 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%: bit.ly/go-back-and-fetch-it

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

"Fungi are so underloved and at the same time so overwhelmingly important in ecosystems. Once I took to the woods, I found these beings of incredible beauty everywhere." Maria Pinto on Zombie Ants and Trumpets of Death for @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

⚡️ New website. Big sale. ⚡️ Snag 50% off (plus FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75) with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout. Hurry, this deal’s disappearing faster than our old homepage! *US only. Excludes distributed titles.

Good triumphs over evil, phew 🎾 #USOpen

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Are you passionate about shaping groundbreaking scholarship in history? We're seeking a Senior Editor to join our team as the W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor—an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields 👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-w...

I wrote about why sitting Supreme Court justices shouldn't be prolific authors. lithub.com/why-the-supr...

Woohoo! Especially proud that Na'dayah started as an undergrad intern and is now joining us full time after graduating from UNC-CH. Making our publicity team 2/3rds tar heels 😎🐏💙

"The history of American officials using this language to justify foreign policy decisions shows that it is not merely an anodyne attempt to describe people." Check out this piece by ‪@mikeneagle.bsky.social‬, author of CHASING BANDITS in Time's Made by History time.com/7303350/demo...

Ready to talk about your book at #ASA2025! Come on down to @uncpress.bsky.social’s booth and talk to me! 😎📖

North Carolina Humanities is voting on their 2026 North Carolina Reads titles 🙌 Visit the link below to vote for ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE by @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social and THE FABULOUS ORDINARY by Georgeann Eubanks 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adventure...With echoes of Jamaica Kincaid and Annie Dillard, this is a treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados.” www.publishersweekly.com/9781469689791

Happy (belated) 91st bday to the iconic Alice Gerrard 🪕 As a native North Carolinian (and frmr college radio dj) I am beyond thrilled to be working at @uncpress.bsky.social while we publish her long-awaited memoir this Dec. Crank up some tunes and ~follow the music~ today in honor of this legend 🎶

Chapel Hill public library has power & is open today. Both Weaves are open but some limited cooked food items due to power and water alerts. Saxapahaw and Eno both have out calls for volunteers.

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!

Lots of good stuff on the @uncpress.bsky.social NetGalley account rn including: ➡️ Alice Gerrard's memoir CUSTOM MADE WOMAN ➡️ Mycologist Maria Pinto's FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS ➡️ @amyefarrell.bsky.social's Girl Scouts history INTREPID GIRLS Media/reviewers— happy reading! bit.ly/UNCPNetGalley

With protests like No Kings happening across the nation, we’ve curated a reading list on protest, immigration, and civic action to help you unpack the history behind today’s movements. Explore the list on the blog 📚 uncpressblog.com/2025/06/16/p...

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told employees on Monday that he did not know the U.S. has a hurricane season, according to two people who heard the remarks and said it was unclear if he was serious.