Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Southern Historical Association.
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 our acquisitions editor Andrew Winters.
You can learn about our new books just published in these great book series:
- Our new imprint W. Hodding Carter III Books
- Ferris & Ferris Books
- Radical Souths (New!)
- Interconnections: The Global Twentieth Century
- Boundless South
- Black Women’s History
- Latinx Histories
- John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
- David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
- Studies in United States Culture
- Gender and American Culture
- Civil War America
- Justice, Power, and Politics
- Critical Indigeneities
- Where Religion Lives
- Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
- Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent SHA conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
And check out The Journal of the Civil War Era, Southern Cultures, the Journal of the Early Republic, and the North Carolina Historical Review, too.
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 SHA
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.
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
The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America
Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico
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
Planning Southern Regionalism
The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s
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
Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán
A Rediscovered Novel
Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside
A Story of the Black Belt
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
A History of African American Health and Labor
Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980
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.
Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
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
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
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
War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
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
Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
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
Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
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 American Civil War in Indian Country
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
The End of the Overland Campaign
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind
A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
A Life in Music
The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
A Biography of Violeta Parra
Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands
How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
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
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond
Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016
Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
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
The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition
The Politics of Morality in America
The Life and Death of Ryan White
AIDS and Inequality in America
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
A North Carolina Politics Primer
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition
A Radical Democratic Vision
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
One Family's Story and the Making of American History
Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century
Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
An Appalachian Memoir
Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia