University of North Carolina Press

Founded	1922; 103 years ago (1922)
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Publication types	Books,Academic journals
Imprints	Ferris and Ferris Books
Official website	uncpress.org

TheUniversity of North Carolina Press (UNC Press), founded in 1922, is anonprofituniversity press associated with theUniversity of North Carolina.^[1][2][3] It was the first university press founded in theSouthern United States.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} UNC Press is a member of theAssociation of University Presses,^[9] with its office located inChapel Hill.^[10]

UNC Press began its publishing history in 1925 withSouthern Pioneers in Social Interpretation, edited by sociologistHoward W. Odum, one of the press’s founders. The volume featured essays on both Black and white Southern figures, includingBooker T. Washington andWoodrow Wilson, and aimed to present the South as a region with cultural and intellectual contributions. The collection received national attention and was described byThe New Republic as signaling a "quickening breeze from the South." This publication helped establish UNC Press’s long-term mission to highlight diverse voices and subjects related to the Southern experience.^[11]

In 2006, UNC Press started the distribution company Longleaf Services as an affiliate.^[2]

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• Suchma, Sharon Margaret (2013).Binding Lives: Southern Photobooks and the Great Depression in America (Doctor of Philosophy thesis).City University of New York.ProQuest 1468443342.
• Kalleberg, Arne L; Newell, Abigail (2022)."100 Years of Social Forces"(PDF).Social Forces.101 (1).Oxford University Press:4–37.doi:10.1093/sf/soac050.ISSN 0037-7732.OCLC 9569687352.S2CID 252520840.Project MUSE 864969. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on June 21, 2025. RetrievedJune 21, 2025.
• Arnold, Taylor; Rivard, Courtney; Tilton, Lauren (2022).Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project.Stanford, California:Stanford University Press.doi:10.21627/2022ll.ISBN 978-1-5036-1528-1.OCLC 1337868509.S2CID 247966950. Archived fromthe original on June 21, 2025. RetrievedJune 21, 2025.

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