Books make great gifts!
It’s time for our Annual Holiday Gift Books Sale!
Scroll to see our newest books to get your gift giving started!
Now you can save 30 percent on ALL UNC PRESS BOOKS for the holidays.
(That’s right, ebooks are now included in the sale!)
And, if your order totals $75.00 or more, U.S. shipping is FREE.
Enter code 01UNCP30 at checkout to receive your discount.
Browse our site (or scroll down the list below) to find great gift books for everyone on your holiday list.
Start with the special selections below.
Remember, enter code 01UNCP30 at checkout to receive your discount.
Notes:
- Free shipping applies to standard/USPS shipping only, and to domestic (U.S.) orders only.
International orders will be charged $10 for the first book,$6.00 for each additional book. - Promotion does not apply to all distributed publisher titles.
- Forthcoming books will be shipped as soon as they are published.
From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter
The Biology and Conservation of North America's Favorite Crustaceans
A Life in Traditional Music
The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
A History of Violence in American Football
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
The Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South
The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams
African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Being Catholic in English America
The Lives of an American Aeneas
The Living History of the Brogue
An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South
The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University
Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Southern News, Southern Politics
How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball
Grief in Early America
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
A Life in Music
A Biography of Violeta Parra
Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley
Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts
Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta
Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda
Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond
Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina
The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas
Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020
A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda
Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive
Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State
The Rise and Fall of New York City’s Rank-and-File Rebels
Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography
The Life and Death of Ryan White
AIDS and Inequality in America
Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
A North Carolina Politics Primer
Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture
Writing Community in Native North America
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight
Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood
A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir
One Family's Story and the Making of American History
America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness
Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century
The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
An Appalachian Memoir
Black Women's Humor and Humanity
A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico
A Father's Journey
Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
Sexual Violence and American Slavery
The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South
Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845
A Global Latin American History
Emigrant Rights in North America
Shaping Policy for a Sustainable and Just Future
How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future
The Violent World of Broadus Miller
A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas
Financial Leadership for the Arts
Sustainable Strategies for Creative Organizations
Building Power, Breaking Power
The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
Discovering North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail
A Companion for Hikers and Armchair Explorers
The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas
Rap and Redemption on Death Row
Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars
Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures
North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries, Revised and Expanded Edition
A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints
The Sociology of an African American Family's Generational Journey
Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home
The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840
Container and Small-Space Gardening for the South
How to Grow Flowers and Food No Matter Where You Live
Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education
A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer
A History of College Radio
Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America
Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
Excavating the Lost Colony Mystery
The Map, the Search, the Discovery
75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II–Era New York City
How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914
An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Far from the Rooftop of the World
Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents