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UNC Press Presents Podcast
Interviews with authors of University of North Carolina Press books.
May 2, 2026
AIDS in the Heartland
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Katie Batza on their recently published book, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a B…
May 1, 2026
The Mask of Memory
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur…
April 30, 2026
God Bless the Pill
Most people today understand contraception as central to women’s liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it wou…
April 4, 2026
The Surgeon's Battle
Between May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city o…
March 17, 2026
Irreconcilable
Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous Nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, governme…
March 16, 2026
A Precarious Balance
Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 (UNC Press, 202…
February 22, 2026
Making the Latino South
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…
February 11, 2026
Dilemmas of Authenticity
In one of the most important books published in 2025—Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith, published by UNC Press—Zaid Adhami…
January 27, 2026
Atlantic Crescent
Alaina Morgan's Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora (UNC Press, 2025) introduces the concep…
January 21, 2026
Brown and Blue
How police abuse ignited the Chicano movement in the Southwest Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest,…
January 12, 2026
On the Swamp
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…
January 5, 2026
Requiem for Reconstruction
The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their …
December 27, 2025
High School Students Unite!
In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. highl…
December 24, 2025
Carceral Apartheid
It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of …
December 21, 2025
Caught in the Current
Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documen…
December 18, 2025
Intrepid Girls
When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girl…
December 16, 2025
Sass
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing…
December 11, 2025
From Vice to Nice
Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormativ…
December 4, 2025
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and thei…
December 2, 2025
Opium Slavery
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, t…