Guest Blogger Catherine Rymph on Sarah Palin and Her Role in History
New from UNC Press Blog Because I teach a course on U.S. Women’s Political History and wrote a book about women in the Republican Party, a lot of people these days have been popping into my office or...
View ArticleWomen and Obama’s First 100 Days
New from UNC Press Blog What does the Obama presidency mean for women, especially in a time of financial crisis? We’re pleased to have a guest post today from Lisa Levenstein, assistant professor of...
View ArticleJoan Waugh on Grant v. Reagan (yes, as in Ulysses S. and Ronald)
New from UNC Press Blog Have you heard? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has sponsored a bill to replace U.S. Grant on the $50 bill with Ronald Reagan. In an op-ed for the LA Times, Grant biographer Joan...
View ArticleConfederate History Month and the Politics of Memory
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome a guest post today from Anne E. Marshall, author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State, which we’ll publish in...
View ArticleAuthor Interview: Jack Reid on Roadside Americans
New from UNC Press Blog In this Q&A, Jack Reid discusses his book Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation, out now from UNC Press. Between the Great Depression and...
View ArticleAmerican Innocence and the Conservative Culture War
New from UNC Press Blog Happy tenth anniversary to University Press Week! This year’s Association of University Presses annual celebration, running from November 8-12, “welcomes all to ‘Keep UP’ with a...
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