Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Organization of American Historians.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, or chat with one of our editors — Dawn Durante, Andreina Fernandez, Cate Hodorowicz, Andrew Kinney, and Andrew Winters.
You can learn about our new books just published in these great book series:
- Our newest imprint, W. Hodding Carter III Books
- Ferris & Ferris Books
- Black Women’s History
- Boundless South
- Civil War America
- Critical Indigeneities
- David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
- Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
- Gender and American Culture
- Interconnections
- Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
- John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
- Justice, Power, and Politics
- Latinx Histories
- The New Cold War History
- Studies in United States Culture
- Where Religion Lives
Congratulations to our OAH Book Award Winners!
2026 Merle Curti Social History Award
2026 W.E.B. Du Bois – John Hope Franklin Award
2026 James A. Rawley Award AND
Honorable Mention,
2026 Mary Nickliss Prize
2026 Darlene Clark Hine Award
New titles from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
New books just released in paperback for immediate course adoption
UNC Press is proud to distribute titles from Reacting Consortium Press.
For more information on these books, click here.
And, don’t forget to check out our journals: Journal of the Civil War Era and Journal of the Early Republic.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent OAH conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for OAH
Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.
Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles
Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory
White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War
The Young Patriots Story
Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives
Policing American Slavery
Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border
Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago
Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism
How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America
Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition
Manufacturing American Men and Women in the Industrial City
The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Essays on the Founding Era
How Gray Wolves, Monarch Butterflies, and Giant Sequoias Transformed Large Landscape Conservation
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion
An American Story of Race, Family, and Religion
Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
America’s First Abolition Movement
America's Historian
Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime
Preserving Data at the End of the World
No Common Ground, Second Edition
Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter
A Cherokee and American Educational History
Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair
Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
The Fusion Insurgency and the Triumph of Jim Crow in North Carolina
Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025
Making American Women's History, 1900-2000
Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
How One Television Show Remade American Politics
America's Long War on Terror
Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865
Black Women and Their Struggles against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation’s Capital
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS
Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside
Sex and the Office, Second Edition
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast
How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics
Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City
Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980
A History of African American Health and Labor
Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform
The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War
Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War
The Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World
Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools
Selling Segregation before the New Deal
Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia
Brother Outsider, Brother Insider
A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr.
Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era
Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams
African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Julian Mayfield’s Journey toward a Black Radical Thought, 1948–1984
Being Catholic in English America
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan
The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta
Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification
The Lives of an American Aeneas
Affordable Housing in Charlotte
What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem
The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories
War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
African American Urban History since the Great Migration
Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
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
Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence
Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces
Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia
Unceasing Militant, Second Edition
The Life of Mary Church Terrell
Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV
Southern News, Southern Politics
How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
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 Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
The American Civil War in Indian Country
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
The End of the Overland Campaign
The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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