Awards

our award winning books

UNC Press consistently produces books of merit and note.

The titles below represent the wide ranging topics and awards garnered for the works.


by Beth Bailey

An Army Afire

How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

Beth Bailey

by Caroline E. Janney, Kathryn J. Shively

The Second Manassas Campaign

Caroline E. Janney, Kathryn J. Shively

Military Campaigns of the Civil War

by Fatima Quraishi

Palimpsests Past and Present

The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660

Fatima Quraishi

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

by Hannah Farber

Underwriters of the United States

How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Hannah Farber

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Céline Carayon

Eloquence Embodied

Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Céline Carayon

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Rob Christensen

Southern News, Southern Politics

How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century

Rob Christensen

by Diane Flynt, Sean Brock, Angie Mosier

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

The Surprising Story of Apples in the South

Diane Flynt, Sean Brock, Angie Mosier

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Kent Masterson Brown Esq.

Meade at Gettysburg

A Study in Command

Kent Masterson Brown Esq.

Civil War America

by Karen L. Cox

No Common Ground, Second Edition

Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

Karen L. Cox

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Paul J. Polgar

Standard-Bearers of Equality

America’s First Abolition Movement

Paul J. Polgar

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Brian Michael Murphy

We the Dead

Preserving Data at the End of the World

Brian Michael Murphy

by Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish Hero of the American Revolution

Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

by Ricardo A. Herrera

Feeding Washington's Army

Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

Ricardo A. Herrera

by Lauren Duval

The Home Front

Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence

Lauren Duval

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Aaron G. Fountain Jr.

High School Students Unite!

Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America

Aaron G. Fountain Jr.

by Alice Gerrard

Custom Made Woman

A Life in Traditional Music

Alice Gerrard

American Music: New Roots

by Jordi Díez

The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America

Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico

Jordi Díez

by Oscar Winberg

Archie Bunker for President

How One Television Show Remade American Politics

Oscar Winberg

by Antwain K. Hunter

A Precarious Balance

Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865

Antwain K. Hunter

by Rosemary Ndubuizu

The Undesirable Many

Black Women and Their Struggles against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation’s Capital

Rosemary Ndubuizu

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Jonathan S. Jones

Opium Slavery

Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis

Jonathan S. Jones

Civil War America

by Maria Pinto

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless

What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival

Maria Pinto

Great Circle Books

by Amy Erdman Farrell

Intrepid Girls

The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Amy Erdman Farrell

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Renata Keller

The Fate of the Americas

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

Renata Keller

InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century

by Katie Batza

AIDS in the Heartland

How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics

Katie Batza

by Nathan L. M. Tabor

City of Lyrics

Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

Nathan L. M. Tabor

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

by Irvin Ibargüen

Caught in the Current

Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980

Irvin Ibargüen

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Erika Pani

Torn Asunder

Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867

Erika Pani

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Anne E. Marshall

Cassius Marcellus Clay

The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform

Anne E. Marshall

Civil War America

by Michael Oriard

Sanctioned Savagery

A History of Violence in American Football

Michael Oriard

by Lindsay Rae Smith Privette

The Surgeon's Battle

How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette

Civil War America

by Amanda Laury Kleintop

Counting the Cost of Freedom

The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War

Amanda Laury Kleintop

Civil War America

by Derrick E. White

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football

Derrick E. White

by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by William A. Link

Frank Porter Graham

Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World

William A. Link

by Alaina M. Morgan

Atlantic Crescent

Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora

Alaina M. Morgan

by Karen Benjamin

Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools

Selling Segregation before the New Deal

Karen Benjamin

by Brian Kwoba

Hubert Harrison

Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

Brian Kwoba

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Ashley Howard

Midwest Unrest

1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement

Ashley Howard

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Susan Juster

A Common Grave

Being Catholic in English America

Susan Juster

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Augustus Wood

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification

Augustus Wood

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Craig Thompson Friend

Becoming Lunsford Lane

The Lives of an American Aeneas

Craig Thompson Friend

by Jacob Blanc

Searching for Memory

Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil

Jacob Blanc

by Melanie R. Hill

Colored Women Sittin’ on High

Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music

Melanie R. Hill

by Andrew C. Isenberg

The Age of the Borderlands

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

Andrew C. Isenberg

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Andrew Donnelly

Confederate Sympathies

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

Andrew Donnelly

Gender and American Culture

by Michael Amoruso

Moved by the Dead

Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil

Michael Amoruso

Where Religion Lives

by A. Wilson Greene

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

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

A. Wilson Greene

Civil War America

by James Marten

The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

The Biography of a Regiment

James Marten

Civil War America

by Georgann Eubanks

The Fabulous Ordinary

Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South

Georgann Eubanks

by Maria John

Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia

Maria John

Critical Indigeneities

by Mary Eyring

Saltwater

Grief in Early America

Mary Eyring

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Robin Judd

Between Two Worlds

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Robin Judd

by Wendy Bellion

Citizen Spectator

Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

Wendy Bellion

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Terryl L. Givens

Stretching the Heavens

The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism

Terryl L. Givens

by Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

To Address You as My Friend

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

by A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher

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

Civil War America

by Nancy Tomes

Remaking the American Patient

How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

Studies in Social Medicine

by Fay A. Yarbrough

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

by Rob Christensen

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

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

Rob Christensen

by Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper, Derrick P. Alridge

With Faith in God and Heart and Mind

A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper, Derrick P. Alridge

by Eddie Huffman

Doc Watson

A Life in Music

Eddie Huffman

American Music: New Roots

by Lori A. Flores

Awaiting Their Feast

Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19

Lori A. Flores

Latinx Histories

by Joshua Nygren

The State of Conservation

Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920

Joshua Nygren

Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

by Natanya Duncan

An Efficient Womanhood

Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Natanya Duncan

by Lina-Maria Murillo

Fighting for Control

Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Lina-Maria Murillo

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Brittany Friedman

Carceral Apartheid

How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

Brittany Friedman

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Mary E. Hicks

Captive Cosmopolitans

Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery

Mary E. Hicks

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Lisa G. Materson

Radical Solidarity

Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence

Lisa G. Materson

by Jenny Shaw

The Women of Rendezvous

A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery

Jenny Shaw

by Vaughn Scribner

Under Alien Skies

Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

Vaughn Scribner

by Charise L. Cheney

Blacks against Brown

The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas

Charise L. Cheney

by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva

The End of College Football

On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva

by Ryan Sharp

Another Throat

Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive

Ryan Sharp

by Anthea Butler

White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition

The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Paul M. Renfro

The Life and Death of Ryan White

AIDS and Inequality in America

Paul M. Renfro

Gender and American Culture

by Crystal R. Sanders

A Forgotten Migration

Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs

Crystal R. Sanders

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle, Leah Koenig, Ilan Rabchinskey

Sabor Judío

The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle, Leah Koenig, Ilan Rabchinskey

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Sayantani Dasgupta

Brown Women Have Everything

Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

Sayantani Dasgupta

by Kate Masur, Elizabeth Clarke

Freedom Was in Sight

A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region

Kate Masur, Elizabeth Clarke

A Ferris and Ferris Book

by Travis A. Weisse

Health Freaks

America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness

Travis A. Weisse

by Robert Cohen

Confronting Jim Crow

Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century

Robert Cohen

by J Finley

Sass

Black Women's Humor and Humanity

J Finley

MF! Momentary Futures in Black Studies

by Jack Reid

Roadside Americans

The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation

Jack Reid

by Sarah Rivett

The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

Sarah Rivett

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Mónica A. Jiménez

Making Never-Never Land

Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

Mónica A. Jiménez

Latinx Histories

by Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

What Side Are You On?

A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders

Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

Critical Indigeneities

by Evan Dalton Smith

Looking for Andy Griffith

A Father's Journey

Evan Dalton Smith

by Jean Dennison

Vital Relations

How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future

Jean Dennison

Critical Indigeneities

by Eric R. Schlereth

Quitting the Nation

Emigrant Rights in North America

Eric R. Schlereth

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Omar Valerio-Jiménez

Remembering Conquest

Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

Omar Valerio-Jiménez

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

by Shannon Eaves

Sexual Violence and American Slavery

The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Shannon Eaves

by Bryan Sinche

Published by the Author

Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Bryan Sinche

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Mateo Jarquín

The Sandinista Revolution

A Global Latin American History

Mateo Jarquín

New Cold War History

by Joseph M. Thompson

Cold War Country

How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

Joseph M. Thompson

Studies in United States Culture

by Ryan Emanuel

On the Swamp

Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

Ryan Emanuel

by Max Felker-Kantor

DARE to Say No

Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

Max Felker-Kantor

Justice, Power, and Politics

by John Bardes

The Carceral City

Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

John Bardes

by John Soluri

Creatures of Fashion

Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia

John Soluri

Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

The War That Made America

Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Civil War America

by Michael Ramos

The After

A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home

Michael Ramos

by Katelynn A. Hatton, Alex Christopher Meekins

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 22

Confederate States Navy, Confederate States Marine Corps, and Charlotte Naval Yard

Katelynn A. Hatton, Alex Christopher Meekins

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster

by Stephanie Clare Smith

Everywhere the Undrowned

A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

Stephanie Clare Smith

Great Circle Books

by Robert Brunk

A Question of Value

Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer

Robert Brunk

by Yunxiang Gao

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Susan Lee Johnson

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

by Susan J. Pearson

The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson

by Michael E. Woods

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

Michael E. Woods

Civil War America

by Shannon King

The Politics of Safety

The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York

Shannon King

by Julia F. Irwin

Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

Julia F. Irwin

by Adrian De Leon

Bundok

A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Adrian De Leon

by Katherine Rye Jewell

Live from the Underground

A History of College Radio

Katherine Rye Jewell

by Burgin Mathews

Magic City

How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America

Burgin Mathews

American Music: New Roots

by Sara E. Johnson

Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

Sara E. Johnson

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

by Elizabeth O'Brien

Surgery and Salvation

The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Elizabeth O'Brien

Studies in Social Medicine

by Aimee Loiselle

Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

Aimee Loiselle

Gender and American Culture

by Whitney Nell Stewart

This Is Our Home

Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Whitney Nell Stewart

by Vanessa A. Rosa

Precarious Constructions

Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto

Vanessa A. Rosa

by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

by Andrew C. McKevitt

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

by Amy Yee

Far from the Rooftop of the World

Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents

Amy Yee

by Jennifer Dominique Jones

Ambivalent Affinities

A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

Jennifer Dominique Jones

Justice, Power, and Politics

by Marlene L. Daut

Awakening the Ashes

An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Marlene L. Daut

by David Menconi, Robert Plant

Oh, Didn't They Ramble

Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music

David Menconi, Robert Plant

The University of North Carolina Press

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