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Author Interview: Cynthia Kierner on Inventing Disaster

New from UNC Press Blog In this Q&A, Cynthia Kierner discusses her book Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood, out now from UNC Press. When...

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Interview: Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth on Hiking Appalachian Forests

New from UNC Press Blog Stephanie B. Jeffries and Thomas R. Wentworth, authors of Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and...

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“New Approaches to the Revolutionary Era”, The Library of Virginia’s Virtual...

New from UNC Press Blog In late July, Carolyn Eastman, author of Omohundro Institute and UNC Press-published The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity, was...

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UNC Libraries’ Off The Shelf Author Talk with Dr. G. Samantha Rosenthal

New from UNC Press Blog Last month, Dr. G. Samantha Rosenthal, author of Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, was featured on UNC Libraries’ Off the Shelf series. Off the...

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Black History Month 2022 Reading List: The Black American Experience

New from UNC Press Blog Earlier this month, we published the first of our weekly Black History Month reading lists, focused on Black Resistance. This week’s reading list centers the Black American...

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Women’s History Month Reading List (Curated by Andreina Fernandez)

New from UNC Press Blog Happy Women’s History Month! Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the...

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Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Susan Garrett)

New from UNC Press Blog Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today...

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Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Helen Kyriakoudes)

New from UNC Press Blog Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today...

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Richard Strand’s Play, “Ben Butler”

New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Elizabeth D. Leonard, author of Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life. Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important...

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A Vision Place of Souls

New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle, on sale Tuesday, July 12th wherever...

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Toward a Nightmare

New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle, available now wherever books and...

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Dismal Freedom – On Sale Now!

New from UNC Press Blog Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris is available now wherever books and ebooks are sold. The massive and foreboding Great...

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