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Been busy listening and thinking but some fantastic sessions today. Particularly “publishing in polarised times” and also “toxic perfectionism” with @jesherer.bsky.social this morning #UPRedux2026

Before we break for lunch, @jesherer.bsky.social speaks on our “Toxic Perfectionism” in the UP world. #UPRedux2026

In just five weeks, usage of the 100 Path to Open titles that are now open exceeded their usage in all of 2025. Imagine a world in which all HSS scholarly books are open to all. Can we make it happen? @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

We're looking for an office coordinator! This part‑time position is ideal for someone who’s detail‑oriented, people‑savvy, and eager to get their start in the publishing world by helping our office and facilities operate at their best. Full description here👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-o...

We're so proud that two of our authors are finalists for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize 👏 🎉 OPIUM SLAVERY by @jonathansjones.bsky.social CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY by Anne E. Marshall www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...

Our books earned incredible recognition in 2025—take a look at all the award winners 🏆🙌 uncpressblog.com/2023/10/13/u...

When @clintsmithiii.bsky.social agreed to blurb my book, I NEVER imagined he’d call it “exceptional” and certainly not “how history should be done.” Clint’s amazing work is read and respected by every public historian I know. Having kind words from him is a real honor. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj

this will be important work, for sure. And a dream team of Co-PIs

We're excited to share that Andrew Kinney will join UNC Press as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor 🎉 "UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇 bit.ly/4i7t3yb

I am THRILLED to get to work with Andrew again (we are pals from our Harvard UP days) and I am very excited for all that's to come with our new trade imprint uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/u...

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/

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.

Going to #OAH25 next week? I’m looking for 1/2 hour of help setting up the booth since I’m temporarily unable to lift more than 10 lbs. Willing to pay and buy lunch! If you know someone who could help DM me. 🙏

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