University of North Carolina Press

12/05/2025

Discover how libraries, university presses, and consortia are working together to build a more sustainable, community-driven model for scholarly . This on-demand Library Journal webinar features JSTOR, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the University of North Carolina Press, and Liverpool University Press, sharing how Publisher Collections came to life and the challenges it helps solve across the academic ecosystem.

If you're exploring new ways to expand access and better support your campus community, this session offers valuable insights into a nonprofit-led approach designed with librarians and publishers.

Watch on demand and learn how your institution can participate: https://bit.ly/3LciihR

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12/05/2025

"A harrowing new normal has emerged in U.S. immigration enforcement. . . "

Read this op-ed by Irvin Ibargüen, author of CAUGHT IN THE CURRENT: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980, in TIME Made by History 👇

As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.

12/04/2025

We asked our marketing department which books they would gift for the holiday and this is what they said ➡️📚

12/04/2025

"Anne E. Marshall has brought [Cassius Marcellus Clay] to vivid, swaggering life in her crisply written biography."

Check out this The Wall Street Journal review for CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY by Anne E Marshall 👏

Cassius Marcellus Clay’s outspoken abolitionism put his life at constant risk. He traveled with pistols and a Bowie knife.

11/25/2025

You voted, and the results are in!

Meet the finalists for our inaugural Readers’ Choice Award, and cast your vote for the winner now 🙌

11/24/2025

You voted, and the results are in! 🎉 Meet the finalists for our inaugural Readers’ Choice Award, and cast your vote for the winner now 🙌

VOTE NOW: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP1rfjmZ-SalC92RPztZq3hbfDJmW_4umRwzUlJRtUJB2Scg/viewform?usp=dialog

11/20/2025

Looking for some Transgender Day of Remembrance reading?

SB Rodríguez-Plate, editor of Association for Public Religion & Intellectual Life CrossCurrents, talks about the journal's new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️‍⚧️

The following is a guest post from SB Rodríguez-Plate, editor of CrossCurrents. Transgender Awareness Week culminates today. November 20th, with the Transgender Day of Remembrance. There are ceremonies, celebrations, and memorials being held all across the United States. As GLAAD notes:  "At a t...

11/20/2025

While taking the top spot would have been nice, I'm still honored that my Doc Watson biography from University of North Carolina Press took the silver medal:

"Thank you for your nomination for the North Carolina Book Awards. The NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources has posted the press release about the 2025 award recipients, so we can now share this news with all of you. We also wanted you to know that while Doc Watson: A Life in Music did not receive the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, it was the judges' selection for runner-up."

11/19/2025

"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS is taking bold, decisive action to Make America Healthy Again. . . A lot of the work MAHA is doing has roots in religious alternative food movements that have shaped public opinions about food since the early nineteenth century."

Adrienne Krone writes about her new book the roots of MAHA on the blog ⤵️

The following is a guest blog post by Adrienne Krone, author of Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States which is now available wherever books are sold. The front page of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website features the head...

11/19/2025

Jessica Lepler, author of CANAL DREAMERS, talks about the process of writing a second book and why some of her best ideas come in the swimming pool on the Drafting the Past podcast🏊‍♀️

Listen to an interview with Jessica Lepler about her book Canal Dreamers, her writing process, the founding of a second book writers workshop at SHEAR, and more.