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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 15h
We're not in-person at the American Society for Ethnohistory conference but you can still browse our virtual exhibit and shop with the conference discount 🙌

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 16h
Interested in teaching LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH: A Father's Journey by @evandaltonsmith.bsky.social? Check out this resource page with discussion and teaching resources, playlists, links to interviews and more 👏

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LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH Learning Resources - Bio Site
LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH Learning Resources · Discussion and teaching resources for the book, "Looking for Andy Griffith," including a guide, music playlist, links to interviews, downloads, and more....
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 17h
Learn how to craft an artful narrative from Michael Ramos, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing @uncwcrw.bsky.social and author of THE AFTER, at the 40th annual @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social conference on November 8th 📝

Register here ⬇️
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 19h
woot! 🤩
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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 1d
Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️
Printed copy of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis held by the author in the background
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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 22h
At 7 PM tonight, I will be talking at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH. So excited to share my research! 🗃️
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 1d
Enter before 11:59pm tonight!
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 2d
Need Weekend Plans? We’re giving away 1 adult general admission ticket to Sleepy Fest in Saxapahaw, NC this Saturday 10/11—plus an advance reader copy of CUTOM MADE WOMAN, the upcoming memoir by folk legend Alice Gerrard.

Giveaway ends Wednesday @ 11:59pm. Enter here 👇
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 1d
We heard you were looking for books to read this #InternationalLesbianDay 🌈

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Celebrating International Lesbian Day: A Reading List - UNC Press Blog
October 8th marks International Lesbian Day, a time to honor lesbian visibility, history, and culture across generations and geographies. At UNC Press, we’re proud to publish scholarship that uplifts ...
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 1d
Today at 4:30!
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 9d
How is publishing adapting to digital formats, political pressures, and a fractured information landscape?

Find out from Spangler Family Director, @jesherer.bsky.social, next week (October 8th) @flyleafbooks.bsky.social

Get your tickets now 🎟️ 👇

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Humanities in Action: The Book Reloaded: Publishing in the Era of AI, Censorship, and Disinformation - Carolina Public Humanities
CPH's Humanities in Action series is exploring revolutions this semester. This 90 minute lecture and discussion will focus on how publishing is adapting to digital formats, political pressures, and a ...
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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations to Mary Hicks (@maryhicks.bsky.social) for winning the Warren Dean Prize for her book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (@oieahc.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social).
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 2d
Need Weekend Plans? We’re giving away 1 adult general admission ticket to Sleepy Fest in Saxapahaw, NC this Saturday 10/11—plus an advance reader copy of CUTOM MADE WOMAN, the upcoming memoir by folk legend Alice Gerrard.

Giveaway ends Wednesday @ 11:59pm. Enter here 👇
airtable.com/appInaH4dLOe...
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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social · 3d
Author's Corner with Aaron Sheehan-Dean, *Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War*: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/06/t... @lsu.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social
The Author’s Corner with Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Fred C. Frey Professor of History at Louisiana State University. This interview is based on his new book, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the Am…
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Pigskin Books @pigskinbooks.bsky.social · 5d
Michael Oriard, former Chiefs lineman and one of America’s leading scholars of football culture, spoke to Pigskin Books about violence, artistry, and why he still watches despite the concussion crisis.

🔗 pigskinbooks.com/2025/10/04/...
#NFLBooks #FootballHistory
Michael Oriard: Football, violence and literature
Michael Oriard on football’s violence, artistry, and meaning - and why he still loves the game despite its unanswered concussion questions.
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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 4d
obligatory unboxing photos of *Mississippi Law* author copies from @uncpress.bsky.social! and check out the GENEROUS blurbs from Jane Dailey, Françoise Hamlin, Walter Johnson, and Jason Ward. they put a smile on my face. uncpress.org/978146968948...
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 3d
EXACTLY!
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Helen Kyriakoudes @hkyria.bsky.social · 6d
Attn media/reviewers: Two new @uncpress.bsky.social titles are now up on @netgalley.bsky.social— for one month only!

📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)

📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social
(Jan '26)

Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF
Publisher Details | NetGalley
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 4d
It’s a beautiful day to read a banned book
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 6d
“Sorry I can’t make it this weekend I have plans.”

The plans: Listening to the new Taylor Swift album and reading my book
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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 7d
✨ An inspiring evening at the NC State Archives with @unchistory.bsky.social profs Fitzhugh Brundage, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, and Joseph Glatthaar to celebrate the publication of Foundations of American Democracy.

Now available to all North Carolinians via a free digital edition on NC LIVE! 📚
Editors & UNC-Chapel Hill Historians Miguel La Serna, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Kathleen DuVal with copies of Foundations of American Democracy: A Critical Documents Reader. Panel moderated by Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary, Office of Archives & History
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 7d
"I asked Chat GPT"

Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 7d
Fellow historian of education Crystal Sanders won the ASHE Outstanding Book Award for A Forgotten Migration (published by @uncpress.bsky.social)

(She's not on Bluesky, so the rest of us have to brag for her.)
A Forgotten Migration
A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of “segregation scholarships” awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate edu...
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 7d
The number of registered Democrats in NC is declining. So is the number of registered Republicans rising? Find out in this @theassemblync.bsky.social piece by @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social, author of ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE 🗳️

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Democrats Are Losing Members in N.C. But Are the Republicans Gaining?
Much has been made of the decline in registered Democrats. But who is benefiting from that shift, and why, is more complicated.
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Brian Harnetty @bharnetty.bsky.social · 8d
A few of months ago, I had a great conversation with John P. Hastings about my book Noisy Memory (with @uncpress.bsky.social). Now, it is an article in The Brooklyn Rail! We talked re: archives, creative process, and Appalachian Ohio.

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BRIAN HARNETTY with John P. Hastings | The Brooklyn Rail
Brian Harnetty is a composer based in Columbus, Ohio. Many of his works and projects begin from listening to audio from sources—spoken word, field recordings, music. Noisy Memory is about the process ...
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Resident Music @resident-music.com · 8d
RHIANNON GIDDENS & KRISTINA R. GADDY
Go Back and Fetch It
*Signed* Paperback
Preorder: www.resident-music.com/product/gidd...
@rhiannongiddens.bsky.social has teamed up with an esteemed writer for this songbook & history of the abiding influence of early Black Atlantic music

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Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social · 9d
I knew the insides of @amyefarrell.bsky.social’s book were fantastic, but WOW the outside is a work of art. Since Lionel won’t let me near it I guess I’ll have to order another copy from @uncpress.bsky.social - and you should too!
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