As we look ahead to 2026, the University of North Georgia Press is building on a year of remarkable growth, recognition, and impact. Our upcoming list reflects our continued commitment to scholarship, accessibility, and stories that matter.

We closed 2025 with four strong releases. Dystopian Discord: Cold War Politics and Cambodian Communism by B.D. Mowell offers a rigorously researched and peer-reviewed examination of conflict within the Southeast Asian communist bloc during the Cold War. Our AUSA Book Partner titles expanded military history scholarship with Daniel K. Elder’s NCO School: How the Vietnam-era NCO Candidate Course Shaped the Modern Army and Colonel Joseph D. Celeski’s Green Berets, Clan Militia, and Blue Helmets: The Illustrated History of Army Special Forces in Somalia. We also released The Basics of American Government, Fifth Edition, edited by Carl D. Cavalli, updated to include the most recent presidential election results.

Our authors’ achievements in 2025 further underscore the strength of our list. Cherokee History and the Spirit Family by James Neil Barnes earned Second Place Grand Prize in Nonfiction at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and is now available at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice, edited by Tiffani Tijerina, received Open Education Global’s 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Practices category.

We carry that momentum into 2026 with new titles, new editions, and expanded formats designed to serve students, educators, and general readers alike. Our open textbook program continues to grow with the release of Introduction to Public Administration, alongside new editions of History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877 and Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy. As always, our open textbooks remain freely available in digital, accessible formats through our website.

Our 2026 creative nonfiction list offers compelling personal narratives with broad appeal. Splintered Shadows: Recapturing a French Résistante by Marilyn F. Moriarty follows an adoptive daughter’s search for her mother’s hidden past, uncovering a courageous life shaped by resistance, imprisonment, and survival in Nazi-occupied France. A Route of Surprises by Larry R. Jordan, an AUSA Book Partner title, traces one man’s journey from post–World War II segregation to senior military leadership, offering an inspiring and candid memoir of perseverance.

Accessibility remains central to our mission. In 2026, we begin a focused initiative to expand accessible formats across our backlist, starting with ebook editions of Swamped: Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches for New Faculty and Cherokee History and the Spirit Family. We are also launching select audiobooks, including Cherokee History and the Spirit Family and Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning, edited by Pamela J. Sachant.

We are proud of the momentum behind our list and energized by the year ahead. We invite you to read and learn with us as we continue to bring impactful, award-winning, and forward-thinking titles.

Corey Parson
Acting Director, University of North Georgia Press