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Goat Castle

A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South

Karen L. Cox

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- The haunting tale of a Mississippi murder that captivated America

$26.00

Color and Character

West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality

Pamela Grundy

Hardcover

The story of one community's experience with segregation, desegregation, and resegregation

$26.00

The Three Graces of Val-Kill

Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own

Emily Herring Wilson

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- The untold story of a pivotal time and place in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and the friends who helped shape it

$28.00

Runaway

Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness

Anthony Chaney

Hardcover

An intellectual odyssey from schizophrenia to climate crisis

$32.95

Religious Freedom

The Contested History of an American Ideal

Tisa Wenger

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- How a diverse array of Americans reinvented the freedom of religion

$34.95

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek

Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta

Earl J. Hess

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- The definitive tactical history of a key battle in the Atlanta campaign

$37.50

Lincoln's Autocrat

The Life of Edwin Stanton

William Marvel

Paperback

Rethinking Stanton and his place in American history

$28.00

Jack London

A Writer's Fight for a Better America

Cecelia Tichi

Paperback

Jack London as political and social activist

$29.00

Ham

a Savor the South cookbook

Damon Lee Fowler

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- Pork, salt, and Damon Lee

$21.00

The Farmhouse Chef

Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm

Jamie DeMent

Hardcover

Cook fresh and flavorful through the North Carolina seasons--wherever you live

$37.50

The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860

Martin Brückner

Hardcover

The creation of American cartographic literacy

$55.00

Children of Uncertain Fortune

Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833

Daniel Livesay

Hardcover

How mixed-race relatives became strangers

$47.50

A Different Shade of Justice

Asian American Civil Rights in the South

Stephanie Hinnershitz

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- The southern struggle for rights beyond black and white

$39.95

The Promise of Patriarchy

Women and the Nation of Islam

Ula Yvette Taylor

Paperback

Putting women at the center of the Nation of Islam

$32.50

Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

Irfan Ahmad

Paperback

Consequential critical thinking from within religious traditions

$32.50

Black Firefighters and the FDNY

The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City

David Goldberg

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- A century of courage under fire

$39.95

Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

Julio Capó Jr.

Paperback

The historical roots of today's queer Miami

$39.95

Raising Government Children

A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State

Catherine E. Rymph

Paperback

The roots of our troubled foster care system

$32.50

A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

Michael D. Robinson

Hardcover

Now in paperback -- A new political history of the secession crisis in the Border South

$34.95

The Stormy Present

Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865

Adam I. P. Smith

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- A new history of conservatism in the Civil War North

$45.00

Funding Feminism

Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967

Joan Marie Johnson

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- Female philanthropists, wealth, power, and elitism in the early American women’s movement

$39.95

Making Freedom

The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery

R. J. M. Blackett

Paperback

The work of self-emancipation

$22.95

Tales from the Haunted South

Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

Tiya Miles

Paperback

A new look at how we choose to remember slavery and the Civil War

$22.95

Hard, Hard Religion

Interracial Faith in the Poor South

John Hayes

Paperback

How faith crossed the color line among the poor

$29.95

Beyond the Crossroads

The Devil and the Blues Tradition

Adam Gussow

Paperback

Getting beyond the clichés about Robert Johnson and the devil's music

$40.00

Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution

The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents

Keith Richotte Jr.

Paperback

How studying the “founding fathers” of one Indigenous nation explains tribal governance today

$35.00

Ambivalent Embrace

Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

Rachel Kranson

Paperback

Jewish authenticity in the land of plenty

$29.95

Raza Sí, Migra No

Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego

Jimmy Patiño

Paperback

The making of a movement defying the Border Patrol and deportation

$35.00

Radical Intellect

Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s

Christopher M. Tinson

Paperback

The cutting edge of the African American left

$32.50

Cuban Revolution in America

Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992

Teishan A. Latner

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- The Revolution on America's doorstep

$39.95

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil

Eve E. Buckley

Paperback

Brazilian scientists and engineers forced to the front lines of social reform

$32.50

Old and Sick in America

The Journey through the Health Care System

Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.

Paperback

Navigating the complexities of elder care in the United States

$32.50

The Virtues of Exit

On Resistance and Quitting Politics

Jennet Kirkpatrick

Paperback

Putting nonparticipation at the center of political protest

$28.00

Porous Borders

Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Julian Lim

Hardcover

Now available in paperback -- A social and legal history of immigration and race along the border

$32.50

They Should Stay There

The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression

Smith College, Russ Davidson, Mark Overmyer-Velazquez

Paperback

Migration lessons from the 1930s

$32.50

Race and the Making of the Mormon People

Max Perry Mueller

Paperback

Competing Mormon visions of race

$35.00

A Communion of Shadows

Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

Rachel McBride Lindsey

Paperback

Vernacular photography and lived religion

$32.50

The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Stephanie J. Smith

Paperback

How politics mattered for artists and how art mattered for the state

$32.50

Medicalizing Blackness

Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Rana A. Hogarth

Paperback

How being black became a medical condition

$29.95

New Voyages to Carolina

Reinterpreting North Carolina History

Larry E. Tise, Jeffrey J. Crow

Paperback

Charting a new course for North Carolina history

$39.00

North Carolina beyond the Connected Age

The Tar Heel State in 2050

Michael L. Walden

Paperback

Predicting the possibilities and challenges in the Old North State's future

$28.00

The F Street Mess

How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Alice Elizabeth Malavasic

Paperback

Senators who live together, conspire together

$32.50

This Grand Experiment

When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.

Jessica Ziparo

Hardcover

How women asserted themselves as workers in the nation’s capital

$39.95

Winning Our Freedoms Together

African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960

Nicholas Grant

Paperback

The intertwined stories of anti-racist activism in South Africa and the United States

$35.00

Searching for Subversives

The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America

Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas

Paperback

The first social profile of Italian civilian internees

$29.95

Jah Kingdom

Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

Monique A. Bedasse

Paperback

How Rastafarians made the dream of repatriation to Africa a reality

$35.00

Archives of Dispossession

Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960

Karen R. Roybal

Paperback

Women’s testimonios and the foundation of Chicanx history and literature

$29.95

American Tropics

The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

Megan Raby

Paperback

How scientists discovered tropical biodiversity

$32.50

The Herds Shot Round the World

Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900

Rebecca J. H. Woods

Paperback

How British livestock conquered the world

$35.00

History Comes Alive

Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s

M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

Paperback

A new feeling for history in the 1970s

$32.50

Consuming Japan

Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

Andrew C. McKevitt

Paperback

A history of America’s fascination with--and fear of--Japanese consumer goods in the 1980s

$29.95

Virtus Romana

Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians

Catalina Balmaceda

Hardcover

How Roman historians constructed politics and society

$45.00

Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition

Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

Annelise Orleck

Paperback

The definitive history of women and the early labor movement

$35.00

The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s

Alan M. Wald

Paperback

The classic literary history is back

$37.50

Abortion after Roe

Johanna Schoen

Paperback

The turbulent history of abortion in the past four decades

$39.95

Liberated Threads

Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

Tanisha C. Ford

Paperback

The everyday act of dressing becomes a political act

$27.95

Cattle Colonialism

An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i

John Ryan Fischer

Paperback

The origins of the cattle market in the California and Hawai'i colonies

$29.95

Native American Whalemen and the World

Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race

Nancy Shoemaker

Paperback

A groundbreaking look at Native American whalemen in New England

$29.95

Hotel Life

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

Caroline Field Levander, Matthew Pratt Guterl

Paperback

Much more than just a place to lay our heads

$22.95

Southern Water, Southern Power

How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region

Christopher J. Manganiello

Paperback

The water wars of the South

$39.95

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

Mark G. Hanna

Paperback

Pirates built the British Empire

$40.00

Selling Empire

India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830

Jonathan Eacott

Paperback

Consumer goods connected India, Britain, and America

$40.00

Adventurism and Empire

The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803

David Narrett

Paperback

Roving adventurists help steer the rise of American colonial power

$32.50

Dream of a House

The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price

Alex Harris, Margaret Sartor

Hardcover

$40.00

Reynolda

Her Muses, Her Stories

David Park Curry, Martha R. Severens, Allison Perkins

Hardcover

$60.00

Twenty-Five Short Plays

Selected Works from the University of North Carolina Long Story Shorts Festival, 2011–2015

Dana Coen

Paperback

$20.00

We Who Believe in Freedom

The Life and Times of Ella Baker

Lea E. Williams

Paperback

$17.00

A Time to Serve

Bertie County during World War I

Gerald W. Thomas

Paperback

$18.00

Grand Illusions

Historic Decorative Interior Painting in North Carolina

Laura A. W. Phillips

Hardcover

$40.00

This Day in North Carolina History

Ansley Herring Wegner, Jeff Miles

Paperback

$35.00

Mujeres en tránsito

Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)

Vanesa Miseres

Paperback

$65.00

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books

Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry

Erin E. Edgington

Paperback

$65.00