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The University of North Carolina Press celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1997. For a more complete look at our history, go to the Online Exhibition of UNC Press Books. Established: 1922 Published Titles in 2000: 97 Titles currently in print: 1,452 Journals published: 6 The University of North Carolina Press is the oldest university press in the South and one of the oldest in the country. Founded in 1922, the Press is the creation of that same distinguished group of educators and civic leaders who were instrumental in transforming the University of North Carolina from a struggling college with a few associated professional schools into a major university. The purpose of the Press, as stated in its charter, is "to promote generally, by publishing deserving works, the advancement of the arts and sciences and the development of literature." The Press achieved this goal early on, and the excellence of its publishing programs has been recognized for seven decades by scholars throughout the world. The Press developed one of the strongest -- and the earliest -- regional publishing programs in the United States, an innovation that attracted national attention and established a pattern of regional publishing quickly adopted by other university presses. Its regional books -- on natural history, plant and animal life, cooking, gardening, folklore, architecture, etc. -- have long been touchstones for those in North Carolina and the Southeast. The Press was also the first publisher to develop an ongoing program of books by and about black Americans. By 1950, nearly 100 such volumes had appeared under the UNC imprint. Among them were John Hope Franklin's first book and three books by Arthur Raper, including The Tragedy of Lynching. One of the Press's most significant recent achievements in this field is the publication of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers, a documentary collection of the work of African Americans in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States from 1830 to 1865. In the late 1970s, the Press was one of the first publishers to recognize the importance of the emerging field of women's studies and took an early lead in publishing in this area both literary and historical works of distinction. Over the years, individual Press titles have received many honors, including the National Book Award for history and biography (1969), the Pulitzer Prize in history (1983), and more than 150 major prizes in American and European history, political science, musicology, architecture, human rights, and the law. In addition, Press books have received national and international recognition for their fine design, including the Silver Medal-Leipzig and many awards from the Association of American University Presses and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. UNC Press books are used in colleges and universities all across the country and reach a wide range of academic and general readers. Now in its seventh decade, the Press has more than one thousand titles in print.
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