If you are a US or UK heritage institution or GLAMR or the like and are doing public outreach with games, could you let me know? Special interest in: - analog game design - public performances of play (especially TTRPGs)

Well, at least the match is getting interesting now.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

#bookhistory from a World Cup superstar.

Every team should leave the World Cup right now.

I’m celebrating 4th of July by test printing linocut on fabric.

A great day for this poem by Lucille Clifton. #america250

I appreciate the fact that newspaper editors are listed first. #bookhistory #newspapers

While celebrating or watching in horror the #July4th in the US of America, let's take a second and thank Matthias and Martin (M&M) who used the term #America first (in a world map they published in 1507), in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The too long hashtag for M&M is ... 1/2

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Are you attending the #SHARPIES festival? On Thurs 9 Jul, 21:30-22:30 CEST I will be hosting the 'All-Languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour.' Bring your bookish book recommendation (fiction & non-fic) & tell us why you liked it. @sharpweb.org #BookHistory 1/

Was really cheering for Senegal. They play great football! Don’t really understand how Belgium got a penalty but oh well.

It's interesting how they are using certain modern media, like streaming, but not a tablet. Cause ofc, BOOKS. For those interested on the book as totem: hdl.handle.net/1887/123157

Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today. So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.

Only in the U.S. would 45 minutes of football be broken into two halves with an “hydration” break - which really means the networks didn’t want to go 45 minutes without a commercial break.

“If you asked me ten years ago, I would say all these college students are reading too much Foucault and too much Judith Butler … But these days … they “can’t even read Foucault and Judith Butler.”” Love this @harpers.bsky.social article by Ann Manov. harpers.org/archive/2026...

how incredible that we get to get to put our stamp on existence for these brief moments. what an honor

Sometimes you need the correct font to convey the appropriate meaning. I never thought I’d say this, but Comic Sans works best here. (Wingdings even better maybe?)

There's only a few days left to get your abstracts together and emailed to @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I for an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"! See the CFP in the post below! Deadline 15 June! #earlymodern #bookhistory #premodernhistory #medievalsky

#bookhistory #ephemera

To be incurious is a type of death

🌏📚 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | *Prints across the Pacific, 1565–1815* Getty Connecting Art Histories Project 2026–28 (1/7)

A copy of Odawa historian Andrew Blackbird's 1887 book History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan with birchbark binding and porcupine quillwork decoration by his sister Margaret Boyd.

Nothing tells me that I need to stop reading the news more than the fact that I initially read excursions as executions and welp, see y’all on the other side.

My local book club meets to discuss Yesteryear on Tuesday and it seems like it is going to be a wild discussion from our Whatsapp chat. “hate read” is coming up a lot.

I feel like this is a book historian’s dream

Do any historical fashion nerds follow me? Trying to figure out what piece of clothing keeps showing up in the house books of Nuremberg

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

If you in the US, Handmade Palestine has delicious cold-pressed #OliveOil. I have bought it as a gift and tried it once, delicious 😋 Plus, you help Palestinian farmers. handmadepalestine.com/products/ext...

"The Cherokee War of 1776" by historian Kevin Kokomoor uncovers the rarely acknowledged war waged by the emerging United States against the Cherokee people just days after the Declaration of Independence was signed. https://tr.ee/AcOUaH

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Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know? A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books. That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news. bookriot.com/5-years-of-b...

Update! 📣🎙️📚 We’ve recorded a few episodes that still need to go to production. We are continuing our book ban series with a discussion about @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, followed by an episode about H.B. 7661 - for handy postcards to send your reps check out @authorsabb.bsky.social! See ya soon!

Happy Friday! This weekend make sure the Little Free Libraries in your town are well stocked AND it'd probably be a good idea to put some of our HR7661 postcards while you're at it!

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

wonderful a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Come work with me! We’ve just opened 2 narrative positions: a Senior Narrative Designer and a Senior Writer! I can’t speak highly enough of this team and this project. We’re cooking up some REALLY cool stuff! 👀 www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2206... www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2205...

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

As @chucktingle.bsky.social says, art is a scream of love right now ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

for #magazineMonday, happy birthday to The Slave's Friend, first published this week in 1835 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. #childrensmagazine #bookhistory

Printing & Book History folks: I could use some help identifying this press. It seems to be some sort of cylinder press. Under the feed boards on both sides are round ink discs. It looks a little like a grasshopper press. What's odd about it is that it is only about a foot to foot & a half wide...

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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