Featured Titles
Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
A sampler of the best scholarship on the Civil War and its memory
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Women face the possibility of change and a deeply entrenched patriarchy
Spotlight On
| UNC Press to Publish Official Book on Tar Heels' Championship Season
One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season,
which will be published on October 15, 2009, is the only official history of the 2008-2009 University of North Carolina men's basketball season, culminating in the team winning the program's fifth NCAA national championship. For more information, click here.
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| Take a closer look at our outstanding list in Religious Studies
including the newly published iMuslims, We Have a Religion, and Kingdom to Commune; new paperbacks; and classroom favorites.
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 On the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Cuban
revolution, UNC Press presents its premier list of books on Cuba at a 20%
savings. Please click here
for the complete listing and discount code.
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 | Just say "No" to powertools! A conversation with Roy Underhill, whose new book The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge, celebrates his thirty years as America's master of traditional woodcraft. |
 | A conversation with John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, and William McKinney, authors of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, on barbecue as a badge of identity.
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 | A conversation with Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., author of Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, on what every patient needs to know.
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Judith Walzer Leavitt author of Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room, delivers a fascinating account of the evolving role of fathers in childbirth. |
 | Here's a "tweet" for you! John Yow, author of The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds, takes flight with his tales of the fascinating everyday birds in his own backyard. |
 | Nancy Carter Crump offers a taste of the past in Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Todays Hearth and Cookstove. |
 | Stan Ulanski, author of The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic, on the Atlantic Ocean's superhighway. |
 | Gordon Hutner, author of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960, recalls forgotten novels that can still move us. |
More...
- Looking for a textbook for your course? Check out our selection of new books for courses.
Click here: Books for Courses.
- Our new Fall 2009 catalog (and our Spring 2009 catalog) are now online and available for you to browse or download. Click here.
- Just in time for grilling season -- check out our site dedicated to Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue. Sample some tasty recipes, watch some video of true NC Pitmasters at work, and a whole lot more.
- For newcomers to North Carolina, or for long-time Tar Heels, the Essential North Carolina Bookshelf
will be an oft-referenced guide to the people, places, sights and sounds of North Carolina. It's an incredible bargain at 50% off the retail price for ten must-have books about our great state.
- Check out the latest volumes of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
- UNC Press is excited to be part of "Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement." To learn more visit the LCRM website.
- Now's the time to get your copy of the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
- Visit the North Carolina Birding Trail.
- Browse our great selection of Cookbooks.
- Announcing UNC Press Enduring Editions -- our back-into-print program where hundreds of classic books will be available again for a new generation of scholars and readers. The first of these titles are now available for sale. Look for more information in the coming months as these books come back into print. For a complete list, click here.
