UNC Press Fall & Winter 2026 catalog cover

The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History by Rachel A. Shelden

Radical Souths book series, featuring If We Must Die: A Novel by Junius Edwards and backlist titles

This Insurgent Ground by Kathryn Benjamin Golden and Able to be American by Hannah E. Zaves-Greene

Little sneak preview of @uncpress.bsky.social's gorgeous new seasonal catalog...isn't she lovely? 😍📚✍️

“Things changed in 1995. Mississippi enacted a truth-in-sentencing law which essentially abolished parole, not just for violent offenses, but for anyone sentenced after its passage. Parole became rare and symbolic. The prison population nearly doubled in just over a decade.”

Professor: Saga of the Mississippi Five is example of how state's parole system is broken - Mississippi Today Professor: "The Mississippi Five embody what happens when a (parole) system designed to recognize growth instead becomes a tool of indefinite punishment."

Must read! The Mississippi Five is example of how the state’s parole system is broken mississippitoday.org/2026/04/10/m...

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

Texas A&M Picks an Insider for President After Months of Conflict

“Pro: Not a politician. Years of leadership experience at TAMU

Con: No academic experience. Never taught students, spent time in a lab or produced research

Will she support the goals of a higher ed institution or continue to remake TAMU into a high school?”

— Leonard Bright, TAMU AAUP President

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BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas.org, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.

A deadly massacre of the post-slavery era finally gets a suitable memorial The new memorial lists the names of 57 Black people killed in the Colfax Massacre in 1873.

Here’s a piece on the current Colfax Massacre memorial, placed in 2023: www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Wow incredible new resource mapping every carceral facility in the US

visitprisons.endmassincarceration.org

DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree YouTube video by The Intercept

DHS is shopping for "less lethal" weapons, one of which is banned for military use, and another that can "go through glass, particle board, and walls."

"Less lethal."

Read more: interc.pt/4v95MlN

✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com

A photo of federal agents using tear gas and smoke bombs against protesters in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree."

Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of “less-lethal” chemical weapons against the nonviolent demonstrators became a hallmark of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/l...

a lot going on. but spare a minute to ask your US House Rep to help bring S.1510 to the floor. it extends funding for the CRCCRRB. researchers are doing important work and deserve a chance to keep going. funds run out in January.

www.coldcaserecords.gov/content/blog...

Can mass surveillance and civil liberties co-exist? As more cameras creep up across Connecticut, we take a look at surveillance technology and examine what we know, and don't know, about how the data is used.

I spent an hour on Connecticut public radio this morning talking about the growing ubiquity of police surveillance--including a conversation with some law makers and residents who have been fighting back against Flock Safety. You can listen to it here!

www.ctpublic.org/show/where-w...

Have any tenure and promotion committees reckoned with the fact of declining funding and access to fellowships? If so, what are folks doing?

I’m not currently on any committees. I just wonder how people are responding to structural changes likely to harm folks starting out.

a great time to get @uncpress.bsky.social's *Mississippi Law* for yourself or your library. In it I show how the history of policing under Jim Crow segregation is an American History uncpress.org/978146968948...

A map showing streets and rail lines of Washington City with street pavement types. Includes legend of street pavement types and mileage table. Map is in the Annual Report of the D.C. Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1882. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library.

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library.
digdc.dclibrary.org/do/523a37ae-...

Such an important history for people who think libraries have always been bastions of democracy. Some of those vestiges are still there! Ask Black librarians.

Making my list of things to read in the archives this summer for book two and I can barely contain myself!

Any new tips for taking and organizing archival photos? 🗃️

I updated my post on The First Juneteenth in Houston to reflect that the Houston Daily Evening Star, which contains a rare report on the event, is now digitized at the Portal to Texas History. My article on this is forthcoming soon in the Journal of Texas History.

***New article from IEHS member Jonathan Cortez***

“For the Sake of Migrant Futures: Historicizing Migrant Deaths in Shipping Containers on the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries,” California History 3, no. 1 (Spring 2026): 70-107.

online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/1...

Please read my essay in the new Journal of American History about how abolitionists used runaway slave ads to ridicule slavery. #slaveryarchive

thanks Hilary!

Professor sues Texas university that terminated contract after Palestine talk Idris Robinson says Texas State violated his constitutional rights over off-campus talk seized on by pro-Israel activists

Prof gets his day in court. “The Guardian has seen university emails; the suspension, termination and denial of appeal did not offer a substantive explanation for each decision and make no reference to specific rules, regulations or laws violated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Klan Materials Found in Mississippi DPS Office Likely Came From 1960s Investigations, Agency Says Ku Klux Klan materials found in a briefcase in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety were likely from 1960s-era investigations, MDPS says.

NEW: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says the 1960s Klan materials that staff found in a closet were likely part of a decades-old investigation.

A suitcase contained Klan regalia, pamphlets and notebooks—including notebooks listing the names of many of its members.

Professor sues Texas university that terminated contract after Palestine talk Idris Robinson says Texas State violated his constitutional rights over off-campus talk seized on by pro-Israel activists

Solidarity with Idris Robinson.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

always grateful for your work, Ashton! and happy to have the press send you a review copy if you want.

MISSISSIPPI LAW is on the syllabus y‘all uncpress.org/978146968948...

learn about all the metaphorical Klan hoods in state police closets w/ discount code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout!

INCREDIBLY grateful

Mississippi Law In the segregated American South, policing was war. Rampant police violence came to the back roads and cattle pastures of America’s rural countryside as i...

the box was discovered to the time its contents were made public. and #2) if only the state police would have unveiled ITS OWN records from the 1960s when sued in the 1970s! read about that & police efforts to thwart Black freedom in my book Mississippi Law uncpress.org/978146968948...

1960s KKK documents, full regalia, found while MDPS prepared to move to new HQ The recently discovered items have been transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

lord help me. Mississippi's state police found a box of Klan materials in a closet while moving into its new $70mil headquarters. and they are SO proud of themselves for turning it over to the state archives. #1) I need to see the chain of custody from the time...

www.wapt.com/article/ku-k...