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UNC Press Presents Podcast
Interviews with authors of University of North Carolina Press books.
October 4, 2026
Bernardo de Gálvez
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance aga…
September 30, 2026
Strong State, Weak Links
In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to improve the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran …
September 12, 2026
Urban Borderlands
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly cons…
September 11, 2026
Chasing Bandits
While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreign enemies this century, the quest to identify and des…
August 31, 2026
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization b…
July 24, 2026
Against Heritage
The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such …
July 21, 2026
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
In Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival (University …
July 19, 2026
Watching the Girls Go By
Molly Brookfield’s book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) expl…
July 11, 2026
Deadly Divide
As many as ten thousand people attempt to illegally cross the border between the US and Mexico each month, braving deserts, rivers, and other environm…
July 6, 2026
The Home Front
What was it like to live in a city experiencing occupation by a foreign army? What did it mean when a family had to quarter an officer in their home? …
July 2, 2026
Thy Will Be Done
In Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026), historian John Garrison Marks tells th…
June 27, 2026
The Trinity
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and …
June 19, 2026
The Vast Oceans
Youssef J. Carter’s The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026) is a stunning meditation on Black Atla…
June 16, 2026
It Is Not Enough to Survive
Jesse Montgomery joins Michael Stauch to discuss It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (UNC Press, 2026). They examine how young white…
June 11, 2026
Ybor City
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits…
June 10, 2026
The Work of Empire
In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, i…
June 10, 2026
White, Black, Brown
Independent historian Michael Staudenmaier joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book about “becoming Puerto Rican” in Chicago. Staudenmaier’s b…
June 3, 2026
The Home Front
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, Brit…
May 25, 2026
Archie Bunker for President
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Thi…
May 25, 2026
Catastrophic Diplomacy
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assi…