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Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. By Jean H. Baker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 286. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-069645-0.)
The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius. By Bob Batchelor. (New York: Diversion Books, 2019. Pp. x, 389. $27.99, ISBN 978-1-63576-586-1.)
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. By Allison Margaret Bigelow. (Williamsburg, Va., and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American Culture and History and University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xxii, 354. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5438-6.)
Mary Bohlen's Heritage Cooking: Inspired by Rebecca Boone. By Mary Bohlen. Food and the American South. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 153. Paper, $23.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-738-3.)
Liberia and the Quest for Freedom: The Half That Has Never Been Told. By C. Patrick Burrowes. (Columbia, Md.: Know Your Self Press, 2019. Pp. vi, 109. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-0894-3806-9.)
Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture. By Emily J. H. Contois. Studies in United States Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xvi, 190. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6074-5.)
Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon. By William L. Davis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 250. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5566-6.)
American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith. By Brian Donovan. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 276. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6028-8.)
Latin America and the Global Cold War. Edited by Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pattinà. The New Cold War History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 422. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5569-7.)
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. By Douglas J. Flowe. Justice, Power, and Politics. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xx, 312. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5573-4.)
Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil. By John D. French. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 508. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5576-5.)
UNC A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University. By Nicholas Graham and Cecelia Moore. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 282. $24.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-5583-3.)
Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. American Business, Politics, and Society. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. vi, 245. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-5224-8.)
Coach of a Different Color: One Man's Story of Breaking Barriers in Football. By Ray Greene. Series on Ohio History and Culture. (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2020. Pp. vi, 173. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-629221-22-9.)
Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877. By Ryan Hall. David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 258. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5515-4.)
Houston Displayed: or, Who Won the Battle of San Jacinto? By a Farmer in the Army. Edited by Stephen L. Hardin. Library of Texas. (Dallas: DeGolyer Library and William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2020. Pp. 132. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-878516-15-2.)
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America. By Tanya Harmer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. x, 370. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5429-4.)
The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist. By...

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