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Political Science December 4, 2023

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

Hosted by Susan Liebell
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second Amendment, or the history of …

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Interviews with authors of University of North Carolina Press books.

Latino Studies November 12, 2023

Making the Latino South

A History of Racial Formation

Cecilia Márquez

Hosted by Anna Lindner
The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (UNC Press, 2023) …
American South November 4, 2023

A Man of Bad Reputation

The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

Drew A. Swanson

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and …
Sociology October 29, 2023

Urban Specters

The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

Sarah Mayorga

Hosted by Richard Ocejo
Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes  our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their …
African American Studies October 10, 2023

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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In The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (UNC Press, 2023), award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia …
General History October 2, 2023

The Edwin Fox

How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914

Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin …
Geography September 26, 2023

Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Jamie L. Jones

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
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Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought …
Political Science September 25, 2023

The People and Their Peace

Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South

Laura F. Edwards

Hosted by Susan Liebell
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Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States Supreme Court requires each side …
African American Studies September 22, 2023

Before Busing

A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle

Zebulon Vance Miletsky

Hosted by Adam McNeil
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In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at …
Food September 20, 2023

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

The Surprising Story of Apples in the South

Diane Flynt

Hosted by Kelly Spivey
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For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and …
American West September 11, 2023

Oriental, Black, and White

The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

Josephine Lee

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
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The history of race in American theater is more complicated than you might think, writes Dr. Josephine Lee in Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater (UNC …
Food September 9, 2023

Feeding New Orleans

Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice

Jeanne K. Firth

Hosted by Kelly Spivey
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own charitable organizations, including the John Besh …
Latino Studies September 8, 2023

The Strikers of Coachella

A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement

Christian O. Paiz

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
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The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential …
Islamic Studies August 25, 2023

I Cannot Write My Life

Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America

Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
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Carl Ernst’s and Mbaye Lo’s new book I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America (UNC Press, 2023) is a fascinating and rivetting book …
Mobilities and Methods August 25, 2023

Space-Time Colonialism

Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements

Juliana Hu Pegues

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
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As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire …
Religion August 22, 2023

Convicting the Mormons

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture

Janiece Johnson

Hosted by Joseph Stuart
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On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News …
Food August 16, 2023

Food Power Politics

The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Bobby J. Smith II

Hosted by Kelly Spivey
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Bobby J. Smith II's book Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2023 )unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American …
American South August 16, 2023

Discovering the South

One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s

Jennifer Ritterhouse

Hosted by Matt Simmons
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During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for …
Intellectual History August 4, 2023

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

The Making of a Pan-African North America

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of U.S. policy from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told …
Anthropology August 3, 2023

Landscapes of Care

Immigration and Health in Rural America

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
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Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the healthcare system in the United …