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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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Black History Month 2022 Reading List: Black Resistance
New from UNC Press Blog As you may already now, February is Black History Month. The history of black people should be celebrated at all times, but in February, we shine an extra special light on it....
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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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Reimagining Africa: How Black Women Invented the Language of Soul in the 1950s
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Tanisha C. Ford’s Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s...
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Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt form Traci Parker’s Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. In this book,...
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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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What Ever Happened to Sheppard Mallory, Frank Baker, and James Townsend?
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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Racial and Sexual Exclusion in World War II–Era Military and Veterans’...
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt of Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II by Jennifer Dominique Jones, which is available now...
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Food As a Weapon: An excerpt from “Food Power Politics”
New from UNC Press Blog This week for Black History Month, we’re sharing an excerpt from the introduction of Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Bobby J....
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