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I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

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Come work with us on this project! We're looking for a postdoc interested in intellectual history, history of botany and/or colonial history. This project brings together Dutch and Surinam perspectives on botanical knowledge circulation. Drop me or Richard a line if you have any questions.

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This Day in Labor History: March 4, 1933. The newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. Let's talk the great Frances Perkins!

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Call for proposals for presentations, panels, and roundtables for Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) annual conference in Portland, October 30-November 1, 2025. It’s in Portland so let me know I can help you find local therapy llamas or hand-knitted Antifa beer koozies scsc.confex.com/scsc/2025/cf...

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Thanking @liber-ray.bsky.social for this atmospheric post as I edit a chapter section on nineteenth-century fog, Wardian cases, and "London ivy."

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Last day to get your free e-book of A MATTER OF MORAL JUSTICE: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice by Jenny Carson mailchi.mp/illinois/8bt... #AfricanAmericanHistory #LaborStudies #WomensStudies

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Hope Library Hope, ND

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🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...

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Snakes + Australia is always a fascinating combination. Also snakes + Australians, as living with venomous snakes is normalized in ways that can surprise outsiders: vivid memories of a school field trip for 7 year-olds to a nature preserve full of tiger snakes ("Stay behind the guide, children!").

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Was talking to a fellow Associate Professor at CUNY this morning about writing a book post tenure. It's hard & not your imagination. Not your fault--it's structural. Here's what you can do. www.annaolaw.com/blog/why-the...

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Happy book publication day! Writing and researching Unforgettable Sacrifice was a journey. I am forever grateful to my family and community kinskeepers who inspired the book and ensured that I narrated their past with accuracy, dignity, and respect. 1/3

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The Farnese Hours, 1546, with a portrait, BY EL GRECO, OF THEIR MINIATURIST, WITH THE BOOK OPEN AT THE SAME PLACE (excuse my caps). Musei Capitolini, Rome, Farnese show. The book is Pierpont Morgan MS 69, the painting is at Naples, Museo di Capidimonte, and the miniaturist is Giulio Clovio.

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I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️

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Happy Red Books Day! Today is the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Post Office Garfield, WA

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Applications are comin' in quickly, but there's still some room in my Descriptive Bibliography class this Aug. @calrbs.bsky.social. If you'd benefit from better understanding how early European books were printed—and from locking down key concepts such as edition, issue, & impression—join us!

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When Wordle refuses to be a pleasant distraction but manages to be visually appealing.

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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, the National Park Service and historians pay tribute to the Black cowboys and cowgirls who made their mark on the wild west. buckrail.com/celebrating-... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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Happy Valentine's Day! This week's recommendation is 'The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,' eds. @katieebarclay.bsky.social & Bronwyn Reddan. 1/3

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A romantic moment from Gertie Brown & Saint Suttle's silent film from 1898. #HappyValentinesDay

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ICYMI: "At their best, university presses aren’t publishing information or research or 'content' but books—crafted with care by skilled professionals who are animated by the values of the university community." Powerful essay by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/this...

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We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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"Haiti Unbound" by Prof Kaiama Glover (Yale) articulates Haiti's regional and global centrality, combining vital 'big picture' reflections on field of postcolonial studies with elegant analyses of a distinctively Haitian literary phenomenon." #OpenAccess #Lit 🇭🇹 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

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Call for applications: grad students, come to Ann Arbor this summer and attend a Chinese Object Study Workshop at the UofM Museum of Art! (There's also a San Francisco option, but summer in Michigan is the best.) Application deadline March 3.

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Map from ~1732 (collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo...)

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Emily Dickinson—dwelling in Possibility—a fairer House than AI—

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AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️

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PSA for (potential) authors: Tomorrow, Fri, 2/7, at 10am, I'm participating in a publishing workshop with other fabulous upstate NY editors. All are welcome! Upstate NY inhabitation not required! Join us! Info and registration here: press.syr.edu/events/getti...

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This is a really cool book. Colonial botanists in the Philippines were overwhelmed & needed indigenous knowledge -- but in succeeding colonial logics, what the Spanish scientists thought was botany & what the US scientists thought was different. Imperial "bringing science" but not the same science.

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You know this historian with a thing for things loved talking about vast early American history and material culture in the latest issue of the WMQ! Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)

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We are excited to welcome these fascinating new books to the Princeton University Press bookshelf this week! Come and explore and enjoy 30% off with code PUP30. press.princeton.edu

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Your periodic reminder that, in the eyes of a scholarly publisher, suggesting many distinct audiences for your book is not necessarily a strong selling point. You’re better off making the case that one or two kinds of readers will absolutely appreciate what your book does

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Reading through the introduction gutted me as I thought about the immigrant families that will likely be pulled apart by Trump’s cruel policies. Congratulations, @jgiesber.bsky.social. Your writing is eloquent. Such an important and timely book. Can’t wait to read more. 🗃️

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"Julie Greene [ @greeneland.bsky.social ] , the author of 'Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal,' explained how dangerous the canal project was for non-American workers, who were forced to live separately from their US peers."—via @euronews.com

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A classic on the subject @nyupress.bsky.social

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This Black History Month, I'm thinking of how Black Panther Party members were crucial partners in helping disabled people with their 504 sit-ins in federal buildings, which led to Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act finally become law. disabilityhistory.org/2021/12/19/t...

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In 1871, Fisk University organized a student acapella group to tour the United States and fund raise for the university. During their first tour, they took the name the Jubilee Singers, a reference to the Jewish year of Jubilee in which the enslaved were set free. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying this fabulous book. 🗃️ #BlackHistoryMonth

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“As a university press, we stand with our authors and remain committed to amplifying the voices of those who challenge, investigate, and illuminate pressing issues from the past and of our time.”

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Recent book that’s worth reading: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Jacob, Lawrence, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility...- 17 September 1787," from the Struggle series harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

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Ready for Valentine’s Day? If you’re still looking for a meaningful present, How to Talk About Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers could be just what you need. Philip Womack calls it a ‘delight’ in The Spectator and we think you’ll wholeheartedly agree: www.spectator.co.uk/article/find...

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Will look forward to this one: Metafiction intersecting with The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and The Countess of Montgomery's Urania sounds like quite a combination. A welcome departure from endless revisitings of Jane Austen (though I enjoy reading those, too).

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Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

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My book, which is currently on sale at 50% off at Amazon, explores some of the first controversies over "patriotic education" from the early 20th century as well as the origins of many other contemporary features of and conflicts over the memory of the #AmRev. www.amazon.com/Memory-76-Re...

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