Fall/Winter 2023 Seasonal Catalog Listing

Welcome to the UNC Press Fall/Winter 2023 Seasonal Catalog.

Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between August 2023 and January 2024.  Feel free to scroll down and browse our new list, and click on any title to learn more.  All these books can be pre-ordered, and will ship when published.

Booksellers and Librarians: Our new seasonal catalogs are available through Edelweiss.


The Vice President's Black Wife

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

The Surprising Story of Apples in the South

Diane Flynt, Angie Mosier, Sean Brock

The Edwin Fox

The Edwin Fox

How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914

Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert

Oh, Didn't They Ramble

Oh, Didn't They Ramble

Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music

David Menconi, Robert Plant

High Bias

High Bias

The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

Marc Masters

Wondrous Transformations

Wondrous Transformations

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

Alison Li

Far from the Rooftop of the World

Far from the Rooftop of the World

Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents

Amy Yee

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Robin Judd

Buying Time for Heritage

Buying Time for Heritage

How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

J. Myrick Howard

Southern Lights

Southern Lights

75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly

Sophia Houghton, Kylan Rice, Daniel Wallace

The Famous Lady Lovers

The Famous Lady Lovers

Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall

Cookie Woolner

Boardinghouse Women

Boardinghouse Women

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

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

I Cannot Write My Life

I Cannot Write My Life

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

Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst

Who Is Muhammad?

Who Is Muhammad?

Michael Muhammad Knight

Live from the Underground

Live from the Underground

A History of College Radio

Katherine Rye Jewell

Sharing Yerba Mate

Sharing Yerba Mate

How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region

Rebekah E. Pite

Gun Country

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

Awakening the Ashes

Awakening the Ashes

An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Marlene L. Daut

Excavating the Lost Colony Mystery

Excavating the Lost Colony Mystery

The Map, the Search, the Discovery

Eric Klingelhofer

Magic City

Magic City

How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America

Burgin Mathews

The Politics of Safety

The Politics of Safety

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

Shannon King

Catastrophic Diplomacy

Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

Julia F. Irwin

Prison Capital

Prison Capital

Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Resistance from the Right

Resistance from the Right

Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Seeing Red

Seeing Red

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

Michael John Witgen

Gumbo

Gumbo

a Savor the South cookbook

Dale Curry

Biscuits

Biscuits

a Savor the South cookbook

Belinda Ellis

Corn

Corn

a Savor the South cookbook

Tema Flanagan

Chicken

Chicken

a Savor the South cookbook

Cynthia Graubart

Greens

Greens

a Savor the South cookbook

Thomas Head

Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

a Savor the South cookbook

April McGreger

Shrimp

Shrimp

a Savor the South cookbook

Jay Pierce

Bourbon

Bourbon

a Savor the South cookbook

Kathleen Purvis

Pecans

Pecans

a Savor the South cookbook

Kathleen Purvis

Barbecue

Barbecue

a Savor the South cookbook

John Shelton Reed

Crabs and Oysters

Crabs and Oysters

a Savor the South cookbook

Bill Smith

Rice

Rice

a Savor the South cookbook

Michael W. Twitty

Pickles and Preserves

Pickles and Preserves

a Savor the South cookbook

Andrea Weigl

Okra

Okra

a Savor the South cookbook

Virginia Willis

A Republic in the Ranks

A Republic in the Ranks

Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac

Zachery A. Fry

Public Confessions

Public Confessions

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Rebecca L. Davis

Ambivalent Affinities

Ambivalent Affinities

A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

Jennifer Dominique Jones

White Man’s Work

White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era

Joseph O. Jewell

The Afro-Latino Memoir

The Afro-Latino Memoir

Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

Trent Masiki

The Race for America

The Race for America

Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

R. J. Boutelle

Beyond Norma Rae

Beyond Norma Rae

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

Aimee Loiselle

Gotham’s War within a War

Gotham’s War within a War

Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II–Era New York City

Emily Brooks

Muddy Ground

Muddy Ground

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

John William Nelson

This Is Our Home

This Is Our Home

Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Whitney Nell Stewart

Accommodating the Republic

Accommodating the Republic

Taverns in the Early United States

Kirsten E. Wood

Encyclopédie noire

Encyclopédie noire

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

Sara E. Johnson

Bundok

Bundok

A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Adrian De Leon

A Man of Bad Reputation

A Man of Bad Reputation

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

Drew A. Swanson

Captivity's Collections

Captivity's Collections

Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Kathleen S. Murphy

Beyond the Kitchen Table

Beyond the Kitchen Table

Black Women and Global Food Systems

Priscilla McCutcheon, Latrica E. Best, Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley

In Pursuit of Health Equity

In Pursuit of Health Equity

A History of Latin American Social Medicine

Eric D. Carter

Surgery and Salvation

Surgery and Salvation

The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Elizabeth O'Brien

Making the Latino South

Making the Latino South

A History of Racial Formation

Cecilia Márquez

Rendered Obsolete

Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Jamie L. Jones

We Pursue Our Magic

We Pursue Our Magic

A Spiritual History of Black Feminism

Marina Magloire

Sound-Blind

Sound-Blind

American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

Alex Benson

Earning Their Wings

Earning Their Wings

The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition

Sarah Parry Myers

The Cutting-Off Way

The Cutting-Off Way

Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

Wayne E. Lee

Food Power Politics

Food Power Politics

The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Bobby J. Smith II

Empty Fields, Empty Promises

Empty Fields, Empty Promises

A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm

Loka Ashwood, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn, Allen Franco, Danielle Diamond

Urban Specters

Urban Specters

The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

Sarah Mayorga

Feeding New Orleans

Feeding New Orleans

Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice

Jeanne K. Firth

Precarious Constructions

Precarious Constructions

Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto

Vanessa A. Rosa

Reciprocal Mobilities

Reciprocal Mobilities

Indigeneity and Imperialism in an Eighteenth-Century Philippine Borderland

Mark Dizon

The Crisis of Catiline

The Crisis of Catiline

Rome, 63 BCE

Bret Mulligan

Watergate, 1973-1974

Watergate, 1973-1974

John M. Parrish

The Prado Museum Expansion

The Prado Museum Expansion

The Diverse Art of Latin America

Bridget V. Franco