Specializing in scholarly, academic, and general interest books. We publish ~15 books/year, including the Vassar Miller and Katherine Anne Porter Prizes.

Denton, TX
Joined March 2015
Myra Walker's DREAMS AND IDEAS: THE ARTISTRY OF COSTUME DESIGNER WINN MORTON was featured last week on Glasstire's Art Dirt podcast. Listen to the episode here: on.soundcloud.com/iwBjPAlWnh…
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UNT Press director Ron Chrisman (left) is at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting this week with Michael Bonura (center), author of UNDER THE SHADOW OF NAPOLEON, and Stephen Bourque (right), author of BARTON'S WAR. Both of these AUSA books are available now!
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BOOKNOTES: "Texas Cotton and Confederate Finance: Blockade Runners, Border Merchants, and Government Agents" cwba.blogspot.com/2026/10/bo… @UNTPress
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There's still time to submit your poetry manuscript for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry! Submission are open through October 31 at universityofnorthtexaspress.…
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Michael Doyle's recent presentation on NIGHTMARE IN THE PACIFIC: THE WORLD WAR II SAGA OF ARTIE SHAW AND HIS NAVY BAND for the George C. Marshall Foundation is available to watch on YouTube! Check it out here: youtube.com/live/e7nJGv9qd_I…
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BOOKNOTES: "Texas and the Civil War: New Perspectives" cwba.blogspot.com/2026/09/bo… @UNTPress
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Congratulations to James B. Mills, whose book IN THE DAYS OF BILLY THE KID was honored this past weekend with the Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for Outstanding Publication in New Mexico or Southwest Borderlands History from the Historical Society of New Mexico!
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"Real American history that is as vividly action/adventure themed as any western novel, 'Crimewave: Murder and Mayhem in the Far West, 1850-1900' is a simply fascinating and informative read from start to finish."-Library Bookwatch untpress.unt.edu/catalog/ber…
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Available this month from UNT Press THE BEST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER NARRATIVES VOL. 13 Edited by Gayle Reaves untpress.unt.edu/catalog/rea…
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Available this month from UNT Press TEXAS AND THE CIVIL WAR: NEW PERSPECTIVES by Carl H. Moneyhon untpress.unt.edu/catalog/mon…
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Available this month from UNT Press TEXAS COTTON AND CONFEDERATE FINANCE: BLOCKADE RUNNERS, BORDER MERCHANTS, AND GOVERNMENT AGENTS by L. Tuffly Ellis and Richard B. McCaslin untpress.unt.edu/catalog/%20…
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The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry is now open for submissions through October 31! View the manuscript guidelines and begin the submission process at untpress.unt.edu/authors/vas…
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"Other Edens ultimately argues that paradise is not a place humanity leaves behind but one it continually attempts to rebuild through memory, faith, marriage, and language." New review for Ash Bowen's OTHER EDENS up now at Rhino Poetry! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/ash-…
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The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry opens for submissions on September 1! Get your poems together and visit untpress.unt.edu/authors/vas… for information on how to submit and check out our previous winners!
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Thanks to History Happy Hour for featuring Mark Archuleta for a discussion of THE REEL THRILLING EVENTS OF BANK ROBBER HENRY STARR, available now from UNT Press! History Happy Hour Episode 315 – Bank Robber Henry Starr youtube.com/live/VqBddeWenHU… via @YouTube
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Listen to John Langellier discuss BASTION BY THE BAY and the Presidio of San Francisco with Damien Bacich for California Frontier, and pick up a copy of the book from untpress.unt.edu! youtu.be/6mJWeWYSbEM?si=sYi8…
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Available this month from UNT Press: Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom By Ronnie K. Stephens
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