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A new book on romance writers, “Love in the Time of Self-Publishing,” considers how romance writers are, first and foremost, workers. Read Jessica Taylor’s review, new at PB:

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In a trip to Italy I saw many images of women with books and thought it'd be nice to share some over the next few days. Lots of annunciation images feature Mary with a book. This fresco is by Pietro di Miniato, at the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, c. 1390-1420? #HerBook #Renaissance

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Victor Frankenstein: I’m listening…

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Now we’ve watched the 1931 Frankenstein together. Teenager perplexed/distraught that the wife-cousin does not seem to have been extinguished, while Mary Shelley’s name (title credit is to “Mrs. Percy B. Shelley”) and Frankenstein’s romantic sensibility have been obliterated.

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Ticket to the U.S. Senate Impeachment of the President, April 6, 1868, from the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Noticing that reposts significantly exceed likes for this post—because no one likes/wants this!

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Pour tous ceux qui ont été étudiants en histoire dans les années 1990, les "Lieux de mémoire" ont constitué une référence intellectuelle majeure permettant d'interroger la construction plurielle de l'imaginaire national tout en interrogeant le rôle social de l'historien. 🙏

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Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

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Teenager reads, summarizes, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: "Oh no, my foul creation has extinguished my wife-cousin." Also motherhood.

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Excellent thread. Syllabus for that grad seminar might also include the new documentary Outliers and Outlaws (produced in collaboration with UO's Eugene Lesbian History Project): blogs.uoregon.edu/outliersando...

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Please check out this fundraiser for the Society of Early Americanists Travel Fund - we're conducting a silent auction of #letterpress prints that speak to our shared interests in #vastearlyamerica #c17 #c18 #c19 forms.gle/myBaLAw56apH...

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My Book Proposal Accelerator program starts tomorrow and there is still time to join us for the first day. If you'd like to draft a scholarly book proposal with me in a supportive online environment over the next six weeks, you'd be very welcome manuscriptworks.com/accelerator

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One of the things I’ve learned most from my developmental editor in the process of writing book 2 is just how much of your writing is work that you need to get to where you don’t need to say what you’ve spent weeks writing. The scaffolding, she calls it, rather than the building itself.

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New piece out with @lauragarbes.bsky.social on how stock footage use is influenced by the political economy of copyright, and how this affects representational diversity in documentary. Congrats to Josh Glick and Pat Aufderheide on editing the new Oxford Handbook of American Documentary.

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Absolutely thrilled that Ashley Brown, an @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, has won the Huntington Library’s Shapiro Book Prize for best first book in American history. She follows R. Isabela Morales’s win for Happy Dreams of Liberty. Kudos!

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A fantastic piece from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, capturing the wonder we can feel in the presence of close reading. Love the suggestion of close reading as performance, "giving its witnesses the sense that they've seen something true and beautiful."

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I am so looking forward to reading this new book from @micahtrue.bsky.social. (I would be embarrassed to admit how long I have been obsessed with these books, especially the ca. 1900 Thwaites edition.)

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A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

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JOB POSTING: Catalog/metadata librarian 📜📚 Come work with me at the Beinecke Library! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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discussion Q's for our meeting on Thursday will be going out soon! you're welcome even if you haven't gotten a chance to read the book. we'll be joined by author Stephanie Evans and editor Rebecca Colesworthy, so I know it will be a great conversation register: pupress.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.

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#PublishingJob Production Editor RAND one of three locations: Santa Monica, CA; Washington, DC; or Pittsburgh, PA $64,400–$96,100 👇

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Happy 🎂, _Mrs Dalloway_. Here's part of Richard Hughes' lovely 1925 review: "to the reader, London is made, for the first time (this will probably surprise him) to exist. It emerges, shining like crystal, out of the fog in which all the merely material universe is ordinarily enveloped in his mind".

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I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Digital History Seed Grants The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields. Deadline: 8/1/25 iehs.org/awards/seed_...

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Apropos of nothing: "Scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions. Manufactured austerity; corporatization; competition over supposedly scarce resources; attrition and downsizing; adjunctification -- these issues affect us all." www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...

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Though they don't seem to be talking about it publicly, it's worth screaming from the rooftops that university presses have also lost NEH grants. NEH has a program to fund creating OA editions of books born of NEH funded research. Publishers apply directly for those grants, not scholars.

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“An estimated 350,000 manuscripts have been inventoried from the dozens of old libraries of the city of Timbuktu, whose reputation for education and its medieval monuments have been favourably compared to universities.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...

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Does no one remember the tale of the magic fish??

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Today is the feast of Catherine of Siena! Stanford has a manuscript made in 1500 of her Life of by Niccolò Borghesi. Stanford's record says this MS was the copy text for the 1501 ed. and "contains notations by the men who prepared it for printing." I haven't found those notations... 🧵

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Jean Rhys worked on “Wide Sargasso Sea,” her 5th and final novel, in her 60's & 70's while in precarious health and devotedly coaxed by two editors, Diana Athill + Francis Wyndham. Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit. free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...

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The @princetonupress.bsky.social annual 50% off sale is on and it's lowest price you'll see THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK all year (it's even better than my author discount or the bulk purchase discount, so stock up now for faculty & friends). Use code BLOOM50 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Funeral procession of Elizabeth I, 28 Apr 1603 (Images from the British Library)

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Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all

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Talking publishing with an author who last published a book five or six years ago can be like talking to Rip Van Winkel—so, so much about the scholarly publishing ecosystem has changed.

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Sixteen PUP authors, translators, and volume editors—including five authors with books under contract with the Press—have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows. Congratulations to all those whose work has been recognized this year! bit.ly/3YDfdLx #GuggFellows2025 @guggfellows.bsky.social

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I doubt that I would have given this missive from Pope Francis my attention were it not for a steer from @bcdreyer.social, but I really can’t recommend it enough. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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Large Dish with Rabbits and Pondweed Imari ware | Edo period, 19th century Porcelain with underglaze blue National Museum, Tokyo, Japan #Art 🐰 🐰

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"Oh, hello. You just happened to catch me writing a treatise." [Unknown painter, 18th-19th century, Portrait of a Man, Oil on canvas, 96 x 73.5 cm (Formerly Wannenes)]

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So, fun story: the FIRST tariff the US federal govt ever passed included provisions to protect and encourage direct trade between the US and China. Specifically: the US put lower duties on tea imported in US ships direct from China, and higher taxes on tea imported via Europe, or in non-US ships

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Congratulations to Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, whose book The Soldier's Reward is the Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize. Learn more about the sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolution: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Starting off the #JERSpring2025 issue is @econroykrutz.bsky.social's new article, "“Between Two Fires” Defining Politics and Religion in the ABCFM Debate over Slavery." Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social & @projectmuse.bsky.social, Emily's article is freely accessible: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

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Very excited to say something I haven't been able to say in a decade: we are hiring a tenure-track historian at Louisiana Tech. We're casting the net wide, basically any field outside of North America. Happy to answer any questions ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...

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The latest round of PUP’s Book Proposal Grant applications are open until April 6, 2025. During this time, we invite applications from scholars across the #Humanities and #SocialSciences, from underrepresented communities, institutions, and regions of the world.

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ICYMI. In response to the EO that conflates Confederate monuments with “history,” @uncpress.bsky.social is offering my book on the history of these statues for FREE until April 11th. Here’s the link! www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...

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My free workshop on 4/2 is for interdisciplinary scholars who are trying to figure out how to write the book they want to write and make it legible/appealing to publishers. I’ll guide you thru some quick exercises & give concrete book proposal tips courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/inte...

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