Spring/Summer 2025 Seasonal Catalog Listing

Welcome to the UNC Press Spring/Summer 2025 Seasonal Catalog.

Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between February 2025 and July 2025.  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.


A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

A. Wilson Greene

Becoming Lunsford Lane

Becoming Lunsford Lane

The Lives of an American Aeneas

Craig Thompson Friend

Shattering the Glass

Shattering the Glass

The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball

Pamela Grundy, Susan Shackelford

Southern Culture on the Fizz

Southern Culture on the Fizz

An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South

Brett Taubman

The Fabulous Ordinary

The Fabulous Ordinary

Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South

Georgann Eubanks

A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas

A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas

Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, Michael W. Hopping

UNC A to Z

UNC A to Z

What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University

Nicholas Graham, Cecelia Moore

Southern News, Southern Politics

Southern News, Southern Politics

How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century

Rob Christensen

Language and Life on Ocracoke

Language and Life on Ocracoke

The Living History of the Brogue

Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, Candy Gaskill

The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

The Biography of a Regiment

James Marten

Fighting for Freedom

Fighting for Freedom

Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence

Torren L. Gatson, Tiffany N. Momon, William A. Strollo

The Two Georges

The Two Georges

Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution

Susan Reyburn, Zach Klitzman, Carla D. Hayden

The Two Georges

The Two Georges

Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution

Susan Reyburn, Zach Klitzman, Carla D. Hayden

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics

Rob Christensen

The Second Manassas Campaign

The Second Manassas Campaign

Caroline E. Janney, Kathryn J. Shively

Playing through Pain

Playing through Pain

The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport

Daniel Sailofsky

The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams

The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams

African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity

Robert F. Williams, Mabel R. Williams, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, Gloria Aneb House, John H. Bracey Jr.

The Breach

The Breach

Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy

Alan McPherson

Rebuilding New Orleans

Rebuilding New Orleans

Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era

Sarah Fouts

Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Affordable Housing in Charlotte

What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem

Tom Hanchett

Unceasing Militant, Second Edition

Unceasing Militant, Second Edition

The Life of Mary Church Terrell

Alison M. Parker

Saltwater

Saltwater

Grief in Early America

Mary Eyring

A Common Grave

A Common Grave

Being Catholic in English America

Susan Juster

Moved by the Dead

Moved by the Dead

Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil

Michael Amoruso

Urban Borderlands

Urban Borderlands

Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles

Isabela Seong Leong Quintana

Poverty Rebels

Poverty Rebels

Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America

Casey D. Nichols

Democracy Is Awkward

Democracy Is Awkward

Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political Organizing

Michael Rosino

Closed Seasons

Closed Seasons

The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South

Julia Brock

Proximity to Power

Proximity to Power

Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia

Krystyn R. Moon

Midwest Unrest

Midwest Unrest

1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement

Ashley Howard

Historians on Housewives

Historians on Housewives

Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV

Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, Max Speare

The Age of the Borderlands

The Age of the Borderlands

Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850

Andrew C. Isenberg

Searching for Memory

Searching for Memory

Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil

Jacob Blanc

Confederate Sympathies

Confederate Sympathies

Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era

Andrew Donnelly

Something to Do with Power

Something to Do with Power

Julian Mayfield’s Journey toward a Black Radical Thought, 1948-1984

David Romine

Exceptionalism in Crisis

Exceptionalism in Crisis

Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era

Alys D. Beverton

No Race, No Country

No Race, No Country

The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright

Deborah Mutnick

Colored Women Sittin’ on High

Colored Women Sittin’ on High

Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music

Melanie R. Hill

Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia

Maria John

Black Movement

Black Movement

African American Urban History since the Great Migration

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

Brother Outsider, Brother Insider

Brother Outsider, Brother Insider

A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr.

Chris Danielson

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification

Augustus Wood

The Work of Empire

The Work of Empire

War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines

Justin F. Jackson

Hubert Harrison

Hubert Harrison

Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

Brian Kwoba

Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools

Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools

Selling Segregation before the New Deal

Karen Benjamin

Dilemmas of Authenticity

Dilemmas of Authenticity

The American Muslim Crisis of Faith

Zaid Adhami

Secular Sensibilities

Secular Sensibilities

Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec

Jennifer A. Selby

Cold War Asia

Cold War Asia

Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories

Hajimu Masuda

Black Pro Se

Black Pro Se

Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Faith Barter

Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan

Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan

The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency

Robert Fitzgerald

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, Vanni Pettinà

Warring for America

Warring for America

Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812

Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute

Citizen Spectator

Citizen Spectator

Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

Wendy Bellion

Cold Harbor to the Crater

Cold Harbor to the Crater

The End of the Overland Campaign

Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney

Dismal Freedom

Dismal Freedom

A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

J. Brent Morris

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Robin Judd

Remaking the American Patient

Remaking the American Patient

How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

Stretching the Heavens

Stretching the Heavens

The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism

Terryl L. Givens

Radical Sacrifice

Radical Sacrifice

The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter

William Marvel

Men Is Cheap

Men Is Cheap

Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

Brian P. Luskey

France and the American Civil War

France and the American Civil War

A Diplomatic History

Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards, Don H. Doyle

Choctaw Confederates

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

To Address You as My Friend

To Address You as My Friend

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford