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The Fate of the Americas for sale at the OAH! (Photo kindly sent from my awesome former colleague Sarah Keyes)

I'm (sadly) not at #OAH2026... but my book is! Big thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for featuring The Fate of the Americas... and the latest book in our InterConnections series, A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s! .... (1/2) #History🗃️

Come check out today's AMA with Charles L. Ponce de Leon for his new book Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism, new from @uncpress.bsky.social

Photo of books in the UNC exhibit at the Organization of American Historians conference, featuring Archie Bunker for President.

I'm not in Philadelphia right now (because of the implications...), but at least Archie Bunker for President is representing me at the @uncpress.bsky.social booth.

If you're attending OAH this weekend, check it out!

Psst! William A. Link will be in conversation with @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social and John Drescher at Flyleaf Books Tuesday, 4/21 🙌

https://flyleafbooks.com/event/link-2026

Stop by and see us! You can't miss our booth 😎

Author holding her book in front of a poster depicting her book and several others.

Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read.
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We’re at #OAH2026! And don’t forget our reception celebrating the first book in our new W. Hodding Carter III imprint is happening at 4:30pm in the booth!

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Heading to Philly tonight for OAH 🙌

UNC Press and non-UNCP authors, scholars, friends, and soon-to-be friends: hope to see you there! I’ll be at the @uncpress.bsky.social booth (#411) all day tomorrow. Stop by, & join us for a drink at 4:30pm on Thurs to celebrate our new trade history imprint.

A Glorious Fate Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in...

You can now pre-order my next book at 30% off direct from @uncpress.bsky.social. Just use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout. #CivilWarMemory uncpress.org/978146969717...

Out on Dec. 1 from @uncpress.bsky.social, my book on my season with North Carolina's women's basketball team -- a behind-the-scenes look at one of the sport's signature programs.

Available for pre-order now!

Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%
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It's pub day for GOD BLESS THE PILL: he Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by @samirakmehta.bsky.social 🎉 🙌

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Episode 95: John Garrison Marks Starts Writing Before He's Awake Kate Carpenter interviews historian John Garrison Marks about writing Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory.

New! @johngmarks.com joins me to talk about his new book, THY WILL BE DONE (@uncpress.bsky.social). We chatted about how he writes while working full time, a public history soapbox or two, writing advice from Bill Hader, and more! Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... #skystorians 🗃️

It's OAH week! If you'll be at the conference be sure to stop by our booth Thursday at 4:30pm to celebrate the publication of WHITE POWER: Policing American Slavery by @gauthamrao.bsky.social 👏

In Minneapolis, Following Prince’s ‘Purple Trail’

“Prince’s genius was that he took the Black-inflected music from the community where he was born — Minneapolis’s Near North Side — and synthesized that with the city’s other sounds,” @drshabazzz.bsky.social (author of Prince’s Minneapolis) said.

"Manipulated slavery’s place in Washington’s story."

Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @johngmarks.com & @uncpress.bsky.social!

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Read @samirakmehta.bsky.social’s brand new GOD BLESS THE PILL & discover a “Not-So Feminist History” rich in the connections among American sexualities, religions, & the state. Always a pleasure to have worked with this dynamic thinker. @uncpress.bsky.social tif.ssrc.org/2026/03/26/d...

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You don't want to miss this conversation about ICE, racial justice, and resistance moderated by @dnbrgr.bsky.social with UNC Press authors @tinashull.bsky.social, Ashley Howard, and Felicia Arriaga ▶️

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Rural Maya Yucatecans recast infrastructural projects as new possibilities for inclusion, agency, and resistance as participants in formal state and economic structures.

Browse our MNGUP #SLAS2026 exhibit here:
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A close up photo of an ad for Mary Mendoza’s new book, Deadly Divide, on a large ad for UNC Press books on the back of the current issue of the NYRB.

A photo of a large ad for UNC Press books on the back of the current issue of the NYRB.

The cover of the current NYRB.

Look at this, @mmendoza.bsky.social! In the big @uncpress.bsky.social ad on the back of the newest NYRB!

The Author’s Corner with Tisa Wenger Tisa Wenger is Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion (Universit…

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A Glorious Fate Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in...

You can now pre-order my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw direct from @uncpress.bsky.social and they are now running a 30% off sale. Perfect timing. What a thrill to see it listed in the "Civil War America" series. uncpress.org/978146969717...

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Tuesday is our favorite day of the week. Why? Because it’s pub day! Check out these three new titles officially on-sale today 🙌

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"Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion," by Tisa Wenger, University of North Carolina Press, 2026

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"Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion," by Tisa Wenger, University of North Carolina Press, 2026

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I wrote No Common Ground, in part, to help communities address the landscapes of their towns. Because the real work happens at the local level. Glenna Moore of Franklin, VA, led the campaign to erect a USCT monument & change the narrative in her part of VA. Not all sheroes wear capes. 🗃️

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I'm live over at @askhistorians.bsky.social! AMA about George Washington, slavery, and public memory before my book comes out tomorrow! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

This Thursday, April 9--Confederate surrender day--I'll be speaking about Opium Slavery at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond. We'll also be live on Youtube/Facebook!

A good chance to reflect on the troubled afterlife of the war for survivors 🗃️ secure.virginiahistory.org/3934/4950

Image of Sara E. Johnson Roundtable Discussion on Sara E. Johnson's Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World in the Journal of Haitian Studies Fall 2025 Volume 31 Number 2

A roundtable in the 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 (@haitianstudies.bsky.social) engages Sara E. Johnson (@ucsandiego.bsky.social)'s Encyclopédie noire.

Read: vist.ly/4x9f5

Book (Omohundro Institute and @uncpress.bsky.social): oieahc.wm.edu/publications/books/available-titles/encyclopedie-noire