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Since its founding, UNC Press has focused on the publication of scholarly works while also creating one of the earliest and strongest regional publishing programs, focused on North Carolina and the South, in the US. As of 2022, UNC Press has published more than 6,000 books and maintains an in-print backlist of over 4,000 titles.
Bob Sheldon founded Internationalist Books in 1981. Opened as a small reading room above a bar on Henderson Street near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sheldon aimed at providing alternative information during the anti-apartheid movement in the 80s as well as a place to share Marxist literature.
Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil is a book by anthropologist Aaron Ansell published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014. [1] The book traces the interactions between an activist state (the Workers' Party or Partido dos Trabalhadores) and a historically impoverished segment of the nation ...
The center's interactive Humanities Moments project was created in partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils in an effort to gather, store, and share personal accounts of how the humanities illuminate and transform the lives of individuals and thereby help "reimagine the way we think and talk about the humanities." Featuring ...
Donald Lewis Shaw (October 27, 1936 – October 19, 2021), one of the two founding fathers of empirical research on the agenda-setting function of the press, was a social scientist and a Kenan professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was born to Luther and Lowell Shaw on October 27, 1936, in Raleigh, North ...
The Republican National Convention kicks off this week, and Project 2025 is emerging as one of the biggest issues of the 2024 election cycle. Project 2025 is a set of policy proposals — a ...
In 1966, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durham and Chapel Hill opened; it changed its name in 1978 to Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. [ 7 ] ERUUF has been a recipient of the O. Eugene Pickett Award, [ 7 ] which is given annually by the Unitarian Universalist Association "to the congregation that has made an outstanding ...
William was born on April 28, 1919 in Johnston County, North Carolina in a house built by his great-grandfather along the Neuse River between Smithfield and Goldsboro.He was the son of Isaac Millard Powell (1892-1955) and Ada Belle Perry Powell (1895-1982).