Okay, @uncpress.bsky.social is running a American History Sale - 30% off with code 01UNCP30 so let's do a five book mini-thread 🧵

a great time to get @uncpress.bsky.social's *Mississippi Law* for yourself or your library. In it I show how the history of policing under Jim Crow segregation is an American History uncpress.org/978146968948...

Treat yourself to a book 🙂‍↕️ use code 01UNCP30 to save 30% right now during our American History Sale

Delighted to announce that my new book, a global history of Saint Patrick’s Day, will be published by @uncpress.bsky.social in early 2027. Big thanks to @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @unlv.edu and everyone who helped me along the way.

Hey #AAIHS2026 👋 Look at that full table 😍

Check out this gorgeous INDY Week feature and Q&A with Rebecca McClanahan author of LIGHT FALLS ON EVERYTHING 👇

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

If you're looking for us at the Latina/o Studies Association conference, we're under the stairs!

Are you at the American Society for Environmental History conference? If so, be sure to stop by our booth! If not, you can still join in on the fun and browse our virtual exhibit 👇 @aseh.bsky.social uncpress.org/aseh-virtual...

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May your morning be sunny, your coffee brewed just right, and your book informative 📖

If you're wondering what's stressing out the UNC Press social media team today, we're recording a virtual flash panel on racial justice, resistance, and ICE and every five minutes we're checking to make sure it's actually recording and that we're still on mute 😅

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...

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...

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/

Looking forward to welcoming Alan McPherson of Temple University to Nichols College for the next America in the World lecture. He will talk about his latest book "The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy" from @uncpress.bsky.social at 3:30 March 25 in Davis 209. All are welcome.

Can’t wait for this amazing book to be out in the world!! And so excited to have the second book in W. Hodding Carter III @uncpress.bsky.social series following @gauthamrao.bsky.social’s (coming to you this fall!) Hope to see you in Philly to celebrate at the #OAH2026 🎉

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

New book review: Smith Cox on Privette, Lindsay Rae Smith: _Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War, The_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20145387

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?...

With a long career in academia it's hard to find the most important work to discuss. Elizabeth Leonard joins @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and me to chat about Joseph Holt and the fascination of biography writing @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5k18... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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 morning at the @c19americanists.bsky.social conference @uncpress.bsky.social author Antwain Hunter stopped by and found his book, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 on display. #C19Americanists

It’s our favorite time of year at Brooks Hall 🌸

A reporter from Ideastream News wrote about high school underground newspapers in Northeast Ohio based off my research in High School Students Unite! from @uncpress.bsky.social. I'll be appearing on Cleveland's NPR station Monday at 9am to discuss more. #booksky www.ideastream.org/government-p...

huffman.eddie 1m Scott Banks on my Doc Watson bio from @uncpress.bsky.social (shared w/permission): "I've read the book 3 times now & I love it so much that last month it inspired me & my wife [Flavia] to visit NC from the UK...thank you for such a great book & inspiring a trip we'll never forget!"

LASA reconoce a Lina-Maria Murillo con la mención honorable del Howard F. Cline Book Prize por su obra "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands". Conoce más: https://loom.ly/jFvwIfo @uncpress.bsky.social #LASA

Barbecue might be the most American food there is. But the story of how it became that way—and the people who built those traditions—is more complicated than most of us realize. @soulfoodscholar.bsky.social and I dig in below. Pass the plate & share. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/smoke-memo...

Irvin Ibargüen on the history of Mexican labor migration "To understand why people move, we must understand who, within their home country, wanted them to stay—& what they were willing to do to make that happen" @iehs.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social iehs.org/a-fraction-o...

What’s the last five-star book you read? ⭐️

New book tells Prince's story in the context of the city that formed him: Minneapolis www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

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So cool to see The Fate of the Americas on sale at my favorite local bookstore! Reno friends, swing by anytime to get a copy for 20% off... or come to my signing event on April 1 with Mark Twain! 😜 @uncpress.bsky.social

It's officially take your book outside to read weather ☀️

Moira Marquis, founder and director of Prison Banned Books Week and author of the forthcoming THOUGHT THREATS (2027) is a speaker for this workshop 👏

We hate to cut our time at #AWP26 short but today will be our last day in the exhibit hall. So be sure to swing by our booth before 5pm today!

Please swing by UNC Press’s booth (705) for a signed copy of @aravensgrace.bsky.social ’s new book! #AWP26

Looking for your next great literary nonfiction read? Check out the first two titles from Great Circle Books, a series edited by Kiese Laymon and Deesha Philyaw. @uncpress.bsky.social @awpwriter.org

My conversation with Totally Biased Reviews about #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social). youtu.be/H2KHjQWy3q8?...

"Set aside a few evenings for CHLOROPHYLL IN HIS VEINS: J.C. Raulston, Horticultural Ambassador." You don't have to tell us twice 😌🪴 gardenrant.com/2026/03/j-c-...

Hey #AWP26 make sure to stop by and visit @lucaschurch.bsky.social in our booth! Plus don't miss Maria Pinto signing copies of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS tomorrow at 11AM ✍️

The answer is “phenomenally well” in my experience with @uncpress.bsky.social!

This hybrid talk is tonight at 7 PM! Can't wait to share my work under the generous dome! 🗃️ #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social

Hello friendly editor asking you to visit @uncpress.bsky.social’s booth at #AWP26! Maybe pick up a book or two?

The new issue of the JHI features a review essay by Naomi Sussman: "Building the Future with the Past: Indigenous Authorship and the Function of Ethnography": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... This article is now free to read without a subscription.

Can’t wait to read this new book on Catholicism and race in the South! @uncpress.bsky.social @sridgely.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969459...

New Directions in Quaker Literary History, a special issue of Early American Literature that I was honored to co-edit, is currently accessible for free!

a v sick mail day - the first three reprints in @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Radical Souths series

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

Congratulations to Andrew Lipman on being awarded the 2025 EAL Book Prize! We also would like to congratulate the Book Prize's honorable mention Phillip Round and the short list of finalists: Anna Brickhouse, Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social and Russ Castronovo. @uncpress.bsky.social