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 Guest blog post by Natalia Telepneva, author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. We are proud to offer Cold War Liberation in our usual print and ebook formats, plus as an open-access edition available through the Sustainable History Monograph Project. ‘My greatest wish for my children and grandchildren is that they never experience war’, my grandfather used to say, especially as the topic of war came up during yearly celebrations of the Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany on the 9th of May. For me, a Rus ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at SMH 2022—we hope you’ll stop by booth 207 and say hello to Debbie Gershenowitz! And if you can’t join us in-person, please visit our virtual booth! Forthcoming The Whartons’ War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 Edited by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 by Ricardo A. Herrera The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert Other Recent Military ..read more

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 we’re sharing a list from Susan Garrett, our Sales Manager. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of these books, don’t forget to use code 01DAH40 at checkout to get 40% off; this discount code applies to any other UNC Press book as well. Ella Baker AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVE ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Happy New Books Tuesday! We have three exciting new books publishing today. Browse our newest releases or take a look at everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press. Plus, if you want updates in your inbox every month on new titles and what’s happening at UNC Press, you can sign up for our monthly eNews here. Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt with a foreword by Sean Brock and Photographs by Angie Mosier A Ferris & Ferris book “Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived is a personal journey through the storied o ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey, available everywhere books are sold. Bailey’s account of the way the army responded to the growing crisis is original and informative. Eric Foner, London Review of Books A TACTIC OF SILENCE On a humid afternoon in mid-October 1968, Maj. Lavell Merritt, described by one newspaper as “a uniformed Negro,” strode into the official press briefing in Saigon and passed out copies of a statement asserting that “the American military services are ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Zach Fredman, author of The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949, available now wherever books and e-books are sold. I spent more than year in Asia researching The Tormented Alliance as a PhD student. My search for sources took me to municipal and provincial archives from all areas of China where U.S. forces deployed during the 1940s, including Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing. I also consulted foreign ministry, military, and presidential records at archives in Nanji ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 by Ricardo A. Herrera available everywhere books and e-books are sold. Faced with the collapse of the commissariat and the all too real potential of scattering the army across eastern Pennsylvania so that it might feed itself, Washington was on the horns of a dilemma. Without food, the army would be compelled to abandon Valley Forge and surrender all hope of challenging the British for control of southeastern Pennsylvania. Choosing the more difficult path—mainta ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog It was so good to be back in-person at OAH 2022! If you missed seeing us in Boston, please visit our virtual booth to browse our recent American history titles, learn more about our great book series, or connect with one of our acquisitions editors. Award winning author Lorien Foote with her book’s editor, Mark Simpson-Vos Cathy Kelly from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture with award winning author Samantha Seeley Samantha Rosenthal posing with Living Queer History Anne Gray Fischer posing with The Streets Belong to Us, along with mentor Way ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog As UNC Press launches its new acquisitions strategy in its centennial year, effective April 1, 2022, two senior members of the Press’s editorial team are taking on new roles to align oversight of key lists with the Press’s strategic priorities. Editorial Director Mark Simpson-Vos will substantially shift his focus, taking over responsibility for the Press’s prestigious list of general-interest and scholarly work in religious studies. The Press’s religious studies program was established by executive editor Elaine Maisner, who retires March 31, 2022. This broad, interdis ..read more