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Excerpt: The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal by John Yow
New from UNC Press Blog With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds....
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Randal Maurice Jelks: Remembering “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome a guest post today from Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography. Martin Luther King Jr. called Mays his...
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Excerpt: Baptized in PCBs, by Ellen Griffith Spears
New from UNC Press Blog In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city’s historically African...
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Interview: Charles L. Hughes on Country Soul
New from UNC Press Blog Charles L. Hughes, author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, talks about the transformative power of the “country-soul triangle.” Be sure to...
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Silvan Niedermeier: “All These Scars, There and There.” Fighting Forced...
New from UNC Press Blog Today we welcome a guest post from Silvan Niedermeier, author of The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955, out...
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Jessica Ingram: On the Importance of Historical Markers as a Community...
New from UNC Press Blog Today we welcome a guest post from Jessica Ingram, author of Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, available now from UNC Press. At first glance, Jessica Ingram’s...
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Saving The Wild South: Yadkin River Goldenrod and Heller’s Blazing Star
New from UNC Press Blog Happy tenth anniversary to University Press Week! This year’s Association of University Presses annual celebration, running from November 8-12, “welcomes all to ‘Keep UP’ with a...
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Author Book Events in the Time of Covid
New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post from Georgann Eubanks, author of Saving The Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction. The American South is famous...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Recommended Reading List
New from UNC Press Blog True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom Today marks the 36th annual observance of Martin...
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But for Birmingham: The National Movement
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Glenn T. Eskew’s But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Birmingham served as the stage for some of...
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Birth of the New Afrikan Independence Movement: A Historical Overview
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Edward Onaci’s Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State. On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists...
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A Photobiography of A Time and Place
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South, written by professor Berkley Hudson. Photographer O. N....
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