Abstract:
When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded the UNC Press in 1922, there were then only three state supported university presses in existence - the universities of Illinois, Washington, and California. UNC Press published its first book in 1923, and since then about 1,500 more titles have been issued, with some 700 still in print. Five men have served as directors of the press, including Matthew Hodgson, the current director.