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We are in celebration mode at @uncpress.bsky.social because Sandra Korn is joining the acquisitions dept! Sandra will acquire environmental history, history of science and medicine, urban history, labor history, and oversee two series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges & Studies in Social Medicine.
BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case
This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.”
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Piggy-backing off of this to say that buying books direct from a publisher's website means higher net revenue for the press, which often translates to higher royalties for the author. So resist the temptation to "buy with one click" on Amazon; the couple extra clicks are worth it, we promise.
Your TBR is about to get longer 📚 @aupresses.bsky.social put together a US at 250: University Press Books list 👏
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Elizabeth Zaleski (@greatfartsoflit.bsky.social and project editor at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social) discusses her observations about and the impacts of “puzzling citation style variation” when it comes to using style guides like MLA, APA, and Chicago. @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social #FeedingTheElephant
It's that day of the year, fellow #readers! The day the @nytimes.com talks about #summerreading with a reference to the @umasspress.bsky.social book on this very topic! #books #publishing (Was just linked in a Times Book Review email.)
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MISSISSIPPI LAW was a huge hit in my undergraduate and graduate carceral history courses last spring uncpress.org/978146968948...
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It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social
And here is @uncpress.bsky.social author Allison S. Curseen, pictured below with her book Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives. @the-ala.bsky.social #ala2026
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We’re excited to welcome Sandra Korn to UNC Press! 🎉
Joining the team on May 26, she will acquire in environmental history, history of science & medicine, urban history, and labor history.
Read more about Sandra and the series she will oversee in this blogpost 👇
uncpressblog.com/2026/05/05/u...
Hey folks, you know how I’m always telling you that the most cost effective way to buy a UP book is almost always direct from the publisher with a discount code? Well here you go (good through 5/31)
The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture a...
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Rampant police violence came to the back roads and cattle pastures of America’s rural countryside as i...
We’re pleased to announce that Sandra Korn will join UNC Press as History Editor, effective May 26, 2026. Korn comes to us from Wayne State University Press, where she spent four years as an acquirin...
This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Aluízio Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving torture as a...
