New from UNC Press Blog Join UNC Press authors and dive deeper into their books on the UNC Press Presents podcast. The podcast, produced in partnership with the New Books Network, features authors talking about their books & areas of expertise. In this post we’re highlighting some of our recent episodes but you can browse all episodes on the UNC Press Presents webpage, or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about the history of the cassette tape in this episode with Marc Masters, author of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape The cassette tape was re ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas by Chris Holaday, which is now available wherever books are sold. In the summer of 1934, six teams of high school–age boys met in Gastonia, North Carolina, for a three-day tournament to decide the Eastern Sectional Champion of American Legion baseball. The winner would advance to Chicago and face the top team from the West to determine the overall national champion. The six teams meeting in Gastonia originated from Cincinnati; Charlotte; Tampa; Springfield ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. This year, to celebrate, we’ve compiled a recommended reading list of some of our recent Environmental Studies titles for you to enjoy. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia by John Soluri “Soluri’s unusual and interesting history of the region . . . is a lively and well informed contribution to a category of scholarship broadly referred to as Animal Studies, which positions these subjec ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Society for Military History annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth to say hello to editor Debbie Gershenowitz and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Congratulations to Beth Bailey! An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era won the 2024 Distinguished Book Award in American History from the Society for Military History. Stop by either our in-person booth or our virtual booth to browse our titles on d ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Latina/o Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our table to say hello to editor Andreína Fernández and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to stop by on Friday from 3:30-4:30 pm to connect with Latinx Histories Series Editor Michael Innis-Jiménez! Latinx Histories Series Latinx Histories is premised on the view that understanding Latinx history is essential to a more complete and complex understanding of the histor ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Happy New Books Tuesday! This week we have a new Southern Gateways Guide and a book on the United Teachers of New Orleans, now available wherever books are sold. Check out our two new releases below. Discovering North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail: A Companion for Hikers and Armchair Explorers by Jerry Barker Includes abundant illustrations with over fifty color photographs and maps for each of the MST’s nineteen segments Narrates significant histories related to each MST segment Places prominent natural features of the trail in context Introduces hikers to nearby ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt of Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism by Joseph M. Thompson, which is now available wherever books are sold. Big Government Country Connie B. Gay and the Roots of Country Music Militarization Connie B. Gay used country music to build a media empire in the 1950s. His ascent began with a job as a radio announcer in 1946 on station WARL in Arlington, Virginia, and a hunch that listeners in the Washington, DC, suburbs might tune in for what the music business then called “hil ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Looking for some more titles to add to your never-ending TBR? With books on a rapper recording an album while on death row & the history of baseball integration in the Carolina’s you’re bound to enjoy this week’s new releases. Plus, don’t forget you can see everything new this month including new paperbacks on our Hot Off the Press page or sign up for our monthly e-news to get updates on new titles in your inbox. Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Alim Braxton & Mark Katz “A raw, contempl ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog UNC Press is thrilled to be back in the exhibit hall at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting this week in Denver, CO. We hope you’ll stop by our table to say hello to editor María Isela García and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! Environmental history has long been a core commitment of our publishing program, and we continue to be impressed with the rich quality, expansive scope, and ingenuity of the work by the ASEH community. This much is to be expected from a field and co ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from A Question of Value: Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer by Robert Brunk, founder of Brunk Auctions in Asheville, NC. Antiques and the Arts Weekly calls A Question of Value “one of the best books on collecting in many years.” and it’s available now wherever books are sold. DOORWAY There were hundreds, maybe thousands, of cats: porcelain, silver, wood, glass, bronze, fabric, and wire cats, paintings and prints of cats sleeping, sitting, stalking, playing. Some were well made, others flimsy tourist souvenirs. It was 1986, and I found m ..read more