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Everything You Need for an African American History Month Reading List
New from UNC Press Blog As you probably know, February is African American History Month, when we celebrate the countless contributions of African Americans to our country and recognize the struggles...
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Jill Ogline Titus: Back-to-School Reflections
New from UNC Press Blog A new school year is upon us–a time filled with eager anticipation for some, and anxiety and dread for others. Jill Ogline Titus, author of Brown‘s Battleground: Students,...
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Claire Whitlinger–The Money in Memory: Commodifying Civil Rights Memory
New from UNC Press Blog Today we welcome a guest post from Claire Whitlinger, author of Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi, out now from UNC...
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Policing and Ongoing Social Injustice Towards Black Lives in America: A...
New from UNC Press Blog In response to recent events in Brooklyn Center MN, the following curated reading list provides information regarding ongoing injustices and discriminatory practices perpetuated...
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Commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg Through Consumer Spending
New from UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Jill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town....
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Happy Rosa Parks Day: A Recommended Reading List
New from UNC Press Blog December 1st, 1955, marks the day civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver’s order, in Montgomery, Alabama, to give up her seat in the “colored” section of the bus...
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“Julius Chambers: Child of the Jim Crow South”
New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier’s Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights. Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North...
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Universal Human Rights Month: A Recommended Reading List
New from UNC Press Blog December marks the annual celebration of Universal Human Rights Month. The observance of this month began in 1948 when the U.N. wrote a document called The Universal Declaration...
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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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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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