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you're surely referring to the three @uncpress.bsky.social titles there.

We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields. Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️ bit.ly/3US7Ihq

No offense to all the other great editors, series, & presses out there in the history publishing game, but this is the best team doing #international #history 🗃️ #SHAFR @uncpress.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social

Today I officially join the 40 club--and get to celebrate not just my own promotion, but also the incredibly well-deserved promotion of the best teammate anyone could ask for, @hkyria.bsky.social 🎉 🎉 🎉

If I'm counting right, of the 6 books that were either winners or finalists for Pulitzers in history and general non-fiction, 4 were published by university presses. A fifth author had an early career UP work. Our work has never been harder. And never more relevant. #ReadUP!

Huge congratulations to @kathleenduval.bsky.social, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏 college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...

In NYC with @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Fall/Winter 2025 catalog! The cover is from @amyefarrell.bsky.social’s definitive, nuanced, and unflinching book on the complicated history of the Girl Scouts. More media calls today, let’s earn that publicity badge🫡

Been trying to get here for, oh, 35 years

Dream Team panel #OAH25

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture @oieahc.bsky.social is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI effective August 10, 2025. For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.

Free to read now. www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...

Achievement unlocked. Thanks friends at @natlhumanities.bsky.social

I'm not sure there's ever been a greater author photo.

Did you hear? COLD WAR COUNTRY: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism by @jmthompson.bsky.social is a finalist for the @latimes.com History Book Prize 🎉👏🤩 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

New on the UNC Press Blog, Path to Open: A History. Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when @jesherer.bsky.social UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books. Reposted with permission from ACLS.

Check out our top-selling titles in January, from @cornellupress.bsky.social, @ivpress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @unmpress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, and Purdue U.P. #publishing #books #academicwriting #universitypress

HUUUUUUUUUUGE @uncpress.bsky.social + OI news: Co-winners of the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie Noire - WOOOOHOOOOO!!! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

OA increases availability and doesn't discriminate against those without wealth. Everybody benefits.

Trying to focus but all we can think about is the Spring 2025 galleys the have started to arrive at the office 🤩🙌

I have the same feeling. And it's an interesting chance to try and get it right this time. Which is why I'm mostly listening and amplifying.

To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋 Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚https://go.bsky.app/RKSF82c

We are proud to collaborate with, and rely on the support of many integral partners for UNC Press's #openaccess #OA initiatives that include: Project Muse @jstor.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social ACLS UNC System Janeway uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/a... #OAWeek2024

"Until there is a significant new investment in publishing resources for campus-based publishers, we will be relying on gradual steps toward a more inclusive and high-impact OA model."—Spangler Family Director @jesherer.bsky.social #OAWeek2024 post on the UNCP Blog uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/a...

⬇️🎧 @dawnd.bsky.social Dawn Durante, UNC Press Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director talks academic and university press publishing on Academic Aunties podcast: www.academicaunties.com/episodes/dem...

Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books! bookshop.org

The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Public Radio has published a vetted list of ways to donate and help that will be updated periodically: uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/h...

Any book publicists on here that I’m not already following? 📚📣👋🙋‍♀️

Interested in academy-owned publishing? Plan to attend the University-Based Publishing Futures launch, Sept 30 1pm EDT. Learn abt this new initiative, the product of conversations among university presses, library publishers & research libraries. More info & registration: https://bit.ly/4gmb9Xa

Congratulations GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt, selected for the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize shortlist! 🎉 www.cundillprize.com/news/2024sho...

Feeding the Elephant, a blog regularly publishing about scholarly communications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences is turning five 5️⃣🎉 We’re proud that our very own Editorial Director @dawnd.bsky.social is one of the three powerhouses behind this feminist-run collective 👏 bit.ly/4cQqUTn

You have been an inspiration to me and many others in your scholarship, vision, and engagement. You've also been a model for how to live. Thank you and congratulations, my friend.

Congratulations are in order for Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social, who has been named the Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director of the University of North Carolina Press. uncpressblog.com/2024/05/29/d...

📚 Fall 2024 UNC Press frontlist catalog is here—featuring new books (all available for preorder) by @katemasur.bsky.social @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social @nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social 📚 ow.ly/KVZC50RAm6V

Some news. Our (@derekcrim.bsky.social and I) book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* now has a cover and is available for preorder in all formats. Please do that. www.amazon.com/End-College-... @uncpress.bsky.social

The @jstor.bsky.social Access in Prisons program is part of a broader initiative across our organization that also includes an extensive and growing research and advisory program on Justice Initiatives at @ithakasr.bsky.social sr.ithaka.org/our-work/jus... .

We're pleased to present the UNC Press Annual Report for 2023, which provides an overview of publishing endeavors, financial results, fundraising efforts, initiatives and partnerships, and award wins. d1xwerhqtnbyw0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u...

Learn about the history of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in MAY WE FOREVER STAND: A History of the Black National Anthem (@UNC_Press, 2018) by Imani Perry ### Feb. 12, 1900: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Was First Publicly Performed—via @Zinn Ed Project www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...

That's one flame emoji for each of the @uncpress.bsky.social titles featured.

In the flesh, this Thursday at UNC @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

I really enjoyed this conversation about the Arlington Confederate monument & hope others will find it instructive. Thanks for providing the platform @kevinmlevin.bsky.social

Wondering what the #FeedingTheElephant team has been reading, watching, and listening to? You’re in luck! @catherinefte.bsky.social, @emily-elliott.bsky.social, and I share some new scholarly communication highlights—including my personal favorite new podcast, @draftingthepast.bsky.social.

UNC Press is pleased to announce that @lucaschurch.bsky.social has been promoted to Executive Editor. uncpressblog.com/2023/11/01/l...

It's here! GOTHAM'S WAR WITHIN A WAR: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City by Emily M. Brooks reexamines urban policing in NYC. New in @uncpress.bsky.social's Justice, Power, and Politics series. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

📖 GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨 Head over to @goodreads and enter for a chance to win an advance review copy (ARC) of THE VICE PRESIDENT'S BLACK WIFE: the Untold Life of Julia Chin by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (a Ferris and Ferris Book). Giveaway open 9/22/23-10/4/23 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...