The copy edits arrived today for my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw with @uncpress.bsky.social. I'm going in. See you on the other side.

Calling all tech wizards 📢 We're looking for an IT Infrastructure Manager to lead the technology operations at UNC Press and @longleafserv.bsky.social 💻 Learn more about the job and apply 👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-i...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social on @drshabazz.bsky.social’s PRINCE’S MINNEAPOLIS (@uncpress.bsky.social) as a book that celebrates Black history: “Shabazz analyzes Prince’s life, career, and discography, showing how it was intrinsically shaped by Minneapolis, and shaped Minneapolis in turn.”

"Black Americans have long highlighted Washington’s slaveholding, even if some white citizens and white institutions have not wanted to hear it." @johngmarks.com in @nytimes.com ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

What better way to honor D.G. Martin's Legacy than to be inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame 💚 www.ncwriters.org/news/network...

Up now on @indyweek.bsky.social, an excerpt from this essential new @uncpress.bsky.social release. It tells the story of Wyatt Outlaw - a voting rights crusader and Graham’s first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now there’s a book.

Important piece from @uncpress.bsky.social author Robert Bland on how today’s voting-rights battles echo the unresolved conflicts of Reconstruction

Punxsutawney Phil basically just said stay inside and read for six more weeks 📖

Deadline to apply is February 10th!

You think you know Cherokee history—until you hear Julie Reed talk about land, language, and women. cc: @uncpress.bsky.social Links below. #Cherokee #CherokeeNation #EasternBandofCherokeeIndians #womenshistory #NorthCarolina #Oklahoma

My post-AHA @uncpress.bsky.social book order came in! Can’t wait to read these!! (Photo on my office carpet because my desk is too full of random stuff 🤪) #History

I'm deep in Rachel’s forthcoming (and excellent) book and every breaking news story about the Supreme Court feels different once you know this history. The Court we treat as timelessly secretive is anything but 👇🧵

Perfect timing. Taking a break from writing to check out what looks to be a fascinating new book by @gauthamrao.bsky.social. Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for the advance reader copy. 🗃️

New Episode! Check out the newest installment of Heartland History as we visit with Jonathan S. Jones about his new work "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis."

📢 Hey UNC Press authors 📢 If you’re writing on Substack, drop your link in the comments so people can discover and follow your work 💚

Weds, Feb. 4, 3ET - CSUSB’s Conversations on Race and Policing I’ll talk about my @uncpress.bsky.social book *Mississippi Law* and lessons from the Jim Crow era about unaccountable policing and reform. come think with us! www.csusb.edu/event/593012

Land is not scenery. Language is not metaphor. History is not neutral. And women are not on the periphery. This conversation with @jreedmo.bsky.social wrestles with what Cherokee land and language reveal about power, memory, and who gets to define meaning in America.

There are so many great publishers in Minneapolis—one thing the rest of us can do is support their books. Here are a few recent novels from Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed sure to give the goons from ICE a stroke: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Because of a pending snowstorm, the in-person book talk for High School Students Unite! will take place virtually. I was looking forward to visiting Atlanta again, but totally understand: www.crowdcast.io/c/high-schoo... #skystorians #booksky

Who was Wyatt Outlaw and why has his story been erased from mainstream history? Skip to 13:00 to find out ⏯️ www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...

You can pre-order the 2nd edition. Now in paperback. 📘🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #abolishice

We just finished our FA26 launch meetings, and WOW—there are some amazing books on the horizon for y'all. Stay tuned!

Podcast: Marion Orr. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @uncpress.bsky.social @biographersintl.bsky.social @marionorrauthor.bsky.social #booksky

Are you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history? We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇 
uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...

I usually review books on my bookstagram basicbookstagrammer, but will post this one here, too! a comprehensive & definitive history of how policing Black bodies shaped American law & society from colonial America through the twentieth century. (1/5) uncpress.org/978146969484...

It's pub day for THE LEGEND OF WYATT OUTLAW by @belleboggs.bsky.social and Sylvester Allen Jr. 🎉 Learn more about the latest book in our Ferris & Ferris imprint 👇 uncpressblog.com/2026/01/27/n...

New episode of the UNC Press Presents podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social just dropped! Hear Alaina M. Morgan talk about her book ATLANTIC CRESCENT: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora 🎧 newbooksnetwork.com/atlantic-cre...

I'll be in New York City next week for a panel discussion at the Schomburg Center with another @uncpress.bsky.social author. It's a pleasure that the organizers found my book worthy of inclusion Registration is free: www.nypl.org/events/progr...

A great selection of books including DICTATORSHIP ACROSS BORDERS by Mila burns 👏

Check out this piece from @belleboggs.bsky.social, coauthor of THE LEGEND OF WYATT OUTLAW, on academic freedom ⤵️

We’re listening. We’ll keep amplifying your voices.

Are you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history? We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇 
uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Great episode with @mfkantor.bsky.social, author of DARE TO SAY NO: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools 👏

The removal of the slavery exhibit from the President's House site might feel unprecedented, but nothing could be further from the truth. We've been fighting over slavery's place in George Washington's legacy for 250 years. I wrote about it for @time.com. Book info here time.com/7357382/geor...

Look at this amazing series - understand representations and ideas of the working class and "real workers" And I get to present too Session 3: April 16, 4-5.30 PM (Paris time) Working-class women in the textile industry, from Crystal Lee Sutton to 'Norma Rae' @uncpress.bsky.social #laborhistory

Don’t take our word for it. Take Clint Smith’s 🙂‍↕️

"The year renews its birth today with all of its hopes and sorrows. Uncertainty and doubt are in its wake.” —Frances Anne Rollin Check out this guest post by @putzi.bsky.social uncpressblog.com/2026/01/22/n...

There's still time to enter the Goodreads giveaway for THE LEGEND OF WYATT OUTLAW: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

I discussed my book, High School Students Unite! on this podcast, Nostalgia Trap. #skystorians #booksky youtu.be/ykuVe7HpFa4?...

So these beauties just landed on my desk. If you need an ARC for review or feature, LMK! @gauthamrao.bsky.social

Don’t ask us for advice. We’ll just point you to a book 📖

Book mail via @uncpress.bsky.social

Finally got my copy. Thanks @uncpress.bsky.social

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I had so much fun chatting with @londomomposino.bsky.social about Canal Dreamers. He was such a wonderful conversationalist! I am currently reading a new source he recommended for my research on the history of Nicaraguan Sharks! 🌎 🌊🦈 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist #histsci #oceanhist #skystorians

Save the date: The #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) book tour rolls on to Worcester on March 11 for a homecoming at the College of the Holy Cross. I've been invited by the McFarland Center to speak about "Ethics and the Rhetoric of America's Long War on Terror." Talk is free & open to all.

"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them." Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄 lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...

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/...

Second edition. That’s what’s up. Out February 2026. #monuments #booktok #readbannedbooks @uncpress.bsky.social