University of North Carolina Press
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Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
$25.00 Add to cartIn this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1469609916
- Language: English
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Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
$35.00 Add to cartHow should we remember George Washington’s entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington’s ties to slavery hav
- Author: Marks, John Garrison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1469693526
- Language: English
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Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music
$30.00 Add to cartAlice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a heavily male genre. Custom Made Woman tells Gerrard’s story through the
- Series: American Music: New Roots
- Author: Gerrard, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1469690365
- Language: English
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Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad: The Biology and Conservation of North America’s Favorite Crustaceans
$28.00 Add to cartWhatever you call them–crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads–these small crustaceans are a vital piece of the larger ecosystem, and though they’re found nationwide, the American Southeast and Appalachia a
- Author: Graham, Zackary A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1469685736
- Language: English
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The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter
$30.00 Add to cartWyatt Outlaw’s story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina’s Ala
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Allen, Sylvester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1469689995
- Language: English
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Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football
$30.00 Add to cartAmerican football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880s, in part because learning how to deal with the pain and violence, to “take it,” made men out of colleg
- Author: Oriard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1469690640
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00 Add to cartWhen 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 girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
$24.00 Add to cartNaturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research,… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Pinto, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469689790
- Language: English
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Southern Culture on the Fizz: An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South
$35.00 Add to cartFrom beer and kombucha to hot sauce and kimchi, fermented foods and drinks are everywhere. Though it once might have felt like a fleeting trend, fermentation has a long culinary history, especially in… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685418
- Language: English
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Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
$27.00 Add to cartOn July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu… [more below]
- Author: Silver, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682869
- Language: English
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Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartBetween North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, pi… [more below]
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682893
- Language: English
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North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints
$20.00 Add to cartD. G. Martin is back with a fully updated edition of his beloved guide, North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries, ready to help Tar Heels and visitors alike find the places locals love to eat. D.G. is your … [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Martin, D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1469660938
- Language: English
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A Guide to North Carolina’s Freshwater Fishes
$35.00 Add to cartMore than 250 species of freshwater fishes live in North Carolina waters, making identification a challenge. Thanks to this comprehensive guide, anyone will be able to accurately identify any fish fou… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Tracy, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 146967811X
- Language: English
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Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father’s Journey
$28.00 Add to cartAndy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina’s most beloved exports, capturing America’s heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Evan Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678985
- Language: English
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Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education
$40.50 Add to cartWhen Shard? M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people affects her personally. But her hashtag, #BlackintheI… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Shardé M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678268
- Language: English
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The Woodwright’s Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodwright’s Shop
$34.50 Add to cartFor more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright’s Shop, … [more below]
- Author: Underhill, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 21 1996
- ISBN10: 0807846120
- Language: English
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Redeemer, Second Edition: The Life of Jimmy Carter
$22.00 Add to cartThis illuminating biography of our thirty-ninth president by an acclaimed historian of American religion presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of progressive evangelical politics. Ev… [more below]
- Author: Balmer, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1469680211
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas
$45.00 Add to cartIdentifying mushrooms in the wild can present an enticing challenge. Taking on unbelievable forms, some are delicious, others are deadly, but the edibility status of the majority remains unknown. In t… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Bessette, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685523
- Language: English
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Unc A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University
$28.00 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition, UNC A to Z offers more Carolina history than ever before. Covering everything from the Old Well and the Confederate monument to the COVID-19 pandemic and Roy Will… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684489
- Language: English
