Awards

our award winning books

UNC Press consistently produces books of merit and note.

The titles below represent the wide ranging topics and awards garnered for the works.


by Derrick E. White

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football

Derrick E. White

by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by William A. Link

Frank Porter Graham

Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World

William A. Link

by Sandra A. Gutierrez

The New Southern-Latino Table

Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South

Sandra A. Gutierrez

by Robin Judd

Between Two Worlds

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Robin Judd

by Wendy Bellion

Citizen Spectator

Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

Wendy Bellion

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Terryl L. Givens

Stretching the Heavens

The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism

Terryl L. Givens

by Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

To Address You as My Friend

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

by A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher

Civil War America

by Nancy Tomes

Remaking the American Patient

How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

Studies in Social Medicine

by Fay A. Yarbrough

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

by Rob Christensen

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics

Rob Christensen

by Lori A. Flores

Awaiting Their Feast

Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19

Lori A. Flores

Latinx Histories

by Natanya Duncan

An Efficient Womanhood

Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Natanya Duncan

by Mary E. Hicks

Captive Cosmopolitans

Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery

Mary E. Hicks

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Lisa G. Materson

Radical Solidarity

Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence

Lisa G. Materson

by Jenny Shaw

The Women of Rendezvous

A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery

Jenny Shaw

by Vaughn Scribner

Under Alien Skies

Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

Vaughn Scribner

by Anthea Butler

White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition

The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Paul M. Renfro

The Life and Death of Ryan White

AIDS and Inequality in America

Paul M. Renfro

Gender and American Culture

by Crystal R. Sanders

A Forgotten Migration

Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs

Crystal R. Sanders

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle, Leah Koenig, Ilan Rabchinskey

Sabor Judío

The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle, Leah Koenig, Ilan Rabchinskey

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Sayantani Dasgupta

Brown Women Have Everything

Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

Sayantani Dasgupta

by Kate Masur, Elizabeth Clarke

Freedom Was in Sight

A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region

Kate Masur, Elizabeth Clarke

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Robert Cohen

Confronting Jim Crow

Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century

Robert Cohen

by Jack Reid

Roadside Americans

The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation

Jack Reid

by Sarah Rivett

The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

Sarah Rivett

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Mónica A. Jiménez

Making Never-Never Land

Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

Mónica A. Jiménez

Latinx Histories

by Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

What Side Are You On?

A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders

Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

Critical Indigeneities

by Evan Dalton Smith

Looking for Andy Griffith

A Father's Journey

Evan Dalton Smith

by Eric R. Schlereth

Quitting the Nation

Emigrant Rights in North America

Eric R. Schlereth

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Omar Valerio-Jiménez

Remembering Conquest

Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

Omar Valerio-Jiménez

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Shannon Eaves

Sexual Violence and American Slavery

The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Shannon Eaves

by Bryan Sinche

Published by the Author

Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Bryan Sinche

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Mateo Jarquín

The Sandinista Revolution

A Global Latin American History

Mateo Jarquín

New Cold War History

by Joseph M. Thompson

Cold War Country

How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

Joseph M. Thompson

Studies in United States Culture

by Ryan Emanuel

On the Swamp

Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

Ryan Emanuel

by Max Felker-Kantor

DARE to Say No

Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

Max Felker-Kantor

Justice, Power, and Politics

by John Bardes

The Carceral City

Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

John Bardes

by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

The War That Made America

Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Civil War America

by Michael Ramos

The After

A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home

Michael Ramos

by Katelynn A. Hatton, Alex Christopher Meekins

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 22

Confederate States Navy, Confederate States Marine Corps, and Charlotte Naval Yard

Katelynn A. Hatton, Alex Christopher Meekins

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster

by Stephanie Clare Smith

Everywhere the Undrowned

A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

Stephanie Clare Smith

Great Circle Books

by Robert Brunk

A Question of Value

Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer

Robert Brunk

by Yunxiang Gao

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Susan Lee Johnson

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

by Susan J. Pearson

The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson

by Michael E. Woods

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

Michael E. Woods

Civil War America

by Shannon King

The Politics of Safety

The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York

Shannon King

by Julia F. Irwin

Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

Julia F. Irwin

by Adrian De Leon

Bundok

A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Adrian De Leon

by Katherine Rye Jewell

Live from the Underground

A History of College Radio

Katherine Rye Jewell

by Burgin Mathews

Magic City

How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America

Burgin Mathews

American Music: New Roots

by Sara E. Johnson

Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

Sara E. Johnson

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Elizabeth O'Brien

Surgery and Salvation

The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Elizabeth O'Brien

Studies in Social Medicine

by Aimee Loiselle

Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

Aimee Loiselle

Gender and American Culture

by Whitney Nell Stewart

This Is Our Home

Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Whitney Nell Stewart

by Vanessa A. Rosa

Precarious Constructions

Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto

Vanessa A. Rosa

by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

by Andrew C. McKevitt

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

by Amy Yee

Far from the Rooftop of the World

Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents

Amy Yee

by Jennifer Dominique Jones

Ambivalent Affinities

A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

Jennifer Dominique Jones

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Marlene L. Daut

Awakening the Ashes

An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Marlene L. Daut

by David Menconi, Robert Plant

Oh, Didn't They Ramble

Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music

David Menconi, Robert Plant

by R. J. Boutelle

The Race for America

Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

R. J. Boutelle

by Marc Masters

High Bias

The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

Marc Masters

by Alison Li

Wondrous Transformations

A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution

Alison Li

by Diane Flynt, Sean Brock, Angie Mosier

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

The Surprising Story of Apples in the South

Diane Flynt, Sean Brock, Angie Mosier

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Rebekah E. Pite

Sharing Yerba Mate

How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region

Rebekah E. Pite

by Cookie Woolner

The Famous Lady Lovers

Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall

Cookie Woolner

Gender and American Culture

by Cecilia Márquez

Making the Latino South

A History of Racial Formation

Cecilia Márquez

Latinx Histories

by John William Nelson

Muddy Ground

Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

John William Nelson

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Marina Magloire

We Pursue Our Magic

A Spiritual History of Black Feminism

Marina Magloire

by Trent Masiki

The Afro-Latino Memoir

Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

Trent Masiki

by Wayne E. Lee

The Cutting-Off Way

Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

Wayne E. Lee

by Bobby J. Smith II

Food Power Politics

The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Bobby J. Smith II

Black Food Justice

by Jamie L. Jones

Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Jamie L. Jones

by Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst

I Cannot Write My Life

Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America

Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

by Drew A. Swanson

A Man of Bad Reputation

The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

Drew A. Swanson

by Michael John Witgen

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Zachery A. Fry

A Republic in the Ranks

Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac

Zachery A. Fry

Civil War America

by Cynthia Graubart

Chicken

a Savor the South cookbook

Cynthia Graubart

Savor the South Cookbooks

by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Vodou en Vogue

Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Where Religion Lives

by Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Landscapes of Care

Immigration and Health in Rural America

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Studies in Social Medicine

by Janiece Johnson

Convicting the Mormons

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture

Janiece Johnson

by Timothy W. Lorek

Making the Green Revolution

Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia

Timothy W. Lorek

Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

by Eric L. Muller

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

Eric L. Muller

by Carly Goodman

Dreamland

America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Carly Goodman

by Beth Bailey

An Army Afire

How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

Beth Bailey

by Kevin McQueeney

A City without Care

300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans

Kevin McQueeney

Studies in Social Medicine

by Felicia Arriaga

Behind Crimmigration

ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America

Felicia Arriaga

by Sarah McNamara

Ybor City

Crucible of the Latina South

Sarah McNamara

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Ava Purkiss

Fit Citizens

A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America

Ava Purkiss

Gender and American Culture

by Grace Sanders Johnson

White Gloves, Black Nation

Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti

Grace Sanders Johnson

Gender and American Culture

by Stephen Kantrowitz

Citizens of a Stolen Land

A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States

Stephen Kantrowitz

The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era

by Elizabeth Giddens

Oconaluftee

The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley

Elizabeth Giddens

by Kathryn Walkiewicz

Reading Territory

Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Kathryn Walkiewicz

by Margaret M. Power

Solidarity across the Americas

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism

Margaret M. Power

by Mason Kamana Allred

Seeing Things

Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism

Mason Kamana Allred

by Gordon K. Mantler

The Multiracial Promise

Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

Gordon K. Mantler

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Steven Moore

The Distance from Slaughter County

Lessons from Flyover Country

Steven Moore

by David Menconi

Step It Up and Go

The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

David Menconi

by Bridgette A. Lacy

Sunday Dinner

a Savor the South cookbook

Bridgette A. Lacy

Savor the South Cookbooks

by Randy Johnson

Grandfather Mountain

The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon

Randy Johnson

by Nancie McDermott

Fruit

a Savor the South cookbook

Nancie McDermott

Savor the South Cookbooks

by Caroline E. Janney

Ends of War

The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

Caroline E. Janney

by Samantha Seeley

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Sandra A. Gutierrez

Beans and Field Peas

a Savor the South cookbook

Sandra A. Gutierrez

Savor the South Cookbooks

by Christian O. Paiz

The Strikers of Coachella

A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement

Christian O. Paiz

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Emily A. Owens

Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

Emily A. Owens

by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

The Making of a Pan-African North America

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

by Charles Reagan Wilson

The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

Charles Reagan Wilson

by Seth Garfield

Guaraná

How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant

Seth Garfield

by La Shonda Mims

Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists

Queer Women in the Urban South

La Shonda Mims

by Catherine Mas

Culture in the Clinic

Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine

Catherine Mas

Studies in Social Medicine

by Christina Greene

Free Joan Little

The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment

Christina Greene

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Caroline Grego

Hurricane Jim Crow

How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South

Caroline Grego

by Emily Hilliard

Making Our Future

Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia

Emily Hilliard

by Brian D. Behnken

Borders of Violence and Justice

Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935

Brian D. Behnken

by Chad E. Pearson

Capital's Terrorists

Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chad E. Pearson

by Caroline Wigginton

Indigenuity

Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures

Caroline Wigginton

Critical Indigeneities

by Dale Kretz

Administering Freedom

The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau

Dale Kretz

by Kristina Shull

Detention Empire

Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance

Kristina Shull

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Viola Franziska Müller

Escape to the City

Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South

Viola Franziska Müller

by John M. Coggeshall

Something in These Hills

The Culture of Family Land in Southern Appalachia

John M. Coggeshall

The University of North Carolina Press
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