Today's featured title: "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America," by James M. O'Toole, Harvard University Press, 2025 @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Now available in english *A History of Political Conflict. Elections and Social Inequalities in France 1789-2022* 📚 Our book with Julia Cagé is out at @harvardpress.bsky.social >>> www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... All data sets available below 👇

Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social for sending along an advance copy of their new annotated edition of The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. It's still a classic and a must read for any serious student of the Civil War era. 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Yes, you can (learn to understand Kant with the help of this new book). #Booksky

spooky season is here, Sept is my birth month (when i like to reread a fave), & that del Toro film looks incredible. time to revisit a book i’m still so proud to have worked on - The Annotated Frankenstein from @harvardpress.bsky.social

You'll love it as much as Kant loved coffee. Marcus Willaschek's hotly anticipated Kant: A Revolution in Thinking is a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of Immanuel Kant, the founder of modern philosophy—suitable for experts and newcomers alike.

This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social. ‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by @lyndang.bsky.social | @harvardpress.bsky.social www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...

Who votes for whom, and why? These are questions that have been with us since the dawn of democracy. In their new book, A History of Political Conflict, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than 200 years of data to find answers. Learn more: bit.ly/4lFvV5K @thomaspiketty.bsky.social

Who votes for whom, and why? These are questions that have been with us since the dawn of democracy. In their new book, A History of Political Conflict, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than 200 years of data to find answers. Learn more: bit.ly/4lFvV5K @thomaspiketty.bsky.social

Beautiful spread of an excerpt from THE COLOR OF NORTH in the next issue of Discovery Magazine. @harvardpress.bsky.social

The new academic year means new goals, and if you're leading a research group (or yourself!) then some of those goals may be leadership goals. To celebrate a new year and new goals, @harvardpress.bsky.social is giving 20% off #LabworkToLeadership through Sept. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today we are sharing a @harvardpress.bsky.social interview with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social on his forthcoming book, Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System niche-canada.org/2025/09/02/e... #envhist #histsci #space #books

Back-to-school blues? We’ve created a list of international hits that offer expert advice for students, families, faculty, administrators, and lifelong learners who want to study more effectively and remember longer. The best part? They’re 25% off through 9/30: tinyurl.com/mrx8hbss

Look what came in today! @jenheemstra.bsky.social can’t wait to learn your ways. You have paved the way for so many of us 🙏🏽

Feeling awed and a bit starstruck that @science.org chose to run a book review on #LabworkToLeadership!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Christian thought was enormously creative and flexible.” History professor Udi Greenberg’s new book from @harvardpress.bsky.social ‪reconceptualizes the 20th-century reconciliation between Europe’s Protestants and Catholics.

Congratulations to our partners on the Cundill History Prize Longlist! 🎉 @harvardpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social We're proud to support the work these presses do in bringing essential scholarship to the libraries across the globe!

Amazing book by @jenheemstra.bsky.social - an absolute must read covering topics from managing ourselves as well as managing others to do excellent research.

In VT to pick up the kiddo and enjoying this read by @jenheemstra.bsky.social. Love that it’s prompting me to think positively about introverted leadership. Thinking about how to adjust elements (eg retreats) for accessibility. Great read.

In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators. Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/4mljVr1

Paul Mariani's brand new @harvardpress.bsky.social book "China's Church Divided: Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival" is spectacular. Essential reading for understanding the Chinese Communist Party's policies towards Catholics and the United Front more broadly.

Tonight, the Perseid meteor shower is at its peak. Will you be watching? We recently spoke with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, the Blumberg/NASA Chair at the @librarycongress.bsky.social, about his new book, Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean...

“Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Uganda State” by Prof. Mahmood Mamdani. I am told by reliable sources that the book is “fire”, and you don’t want to miss it. Out on October 14, 2025.

In my forthcoming book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," I show that what happens in space matters on Earth—and what happens on Earth increasingly matters in space. In this interview with Harvard University Press, I reflect on the implications of that idea. #EnvHist www.hup.harvard.edu/features/the...

Very happy to see this wonderful review of Andrew Preston's Total Defense - a weekend reading treat! @harvardpress.bsky.social

Review of Paul Kosmin’s brilliant Ancient Shorelines in LRB 🌊@josephinequinn.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @harvardpress.bsky.social

NEW: Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.bsky.social joins Melissa to talk legal news. Then Brandon Garrett @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social on his book DEFENDING DUE PROCESS And Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social joins Leah to talk his book OLDEST CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION crooked.com/podcast/how-...

Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy coincides with the publication of “Slow Poison,” a fascinating memoir by his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a renowned scholar of politics and anthropology.

Out today, from @brandonbloch.bsky.social: A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.

Out today: "A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” — @theguardian.com The unsettling history of an ideal equally cherished and misunderstood. Rejecting platitudes about the First Amendment and its international equivalents, What Is Free Speech? leaves no ideological position undisturbed.

I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

My reading of Volume III of the @harvardpress.bsky.social Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition of "The Vulgate Bible" now completed, I move forward once again to the Renaissance with the I Tatti edition of Alberti's "Momus." #Booksky

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

Super Gay Poems is a New England Book Awards Finalist! Congratulations, @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. 🌈 🧜‍♀️ About the book: tinyurl.com/bdedtesb

Join us on July 23 as Zara Anishanslin (@DrZara) speaks about her new book, “Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the Revolution," which charts the intertwined lives of three artists who dared to defy the British monarchy. Register here: www.masshist.org/events/the-p...

Oh, this looks fun — Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Our AMA with historian Sarah Gold McBride, author of Whiskerology, is now LIVE! 🚨 Join now to learn all about the history of hair and facial hair in America: tinyurl.com/yc7nh3mt 🥸

CK Lee on Hong Kong, this is gonna be great @harvardpress.bsky.social

Stopped by @harvardpress.bsky.social today to get the first copy of my book. I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels to finally hold it in my hands… Many thanks to my editor for investing in this project, to my community for believing in me, & to God for seeing me through to the end

I LOVE the way online places like AskHistorians can introduce people to fascinating history about a topic they might never even have thought about before. I didn't think I'd spend today thinking about hair history, but I sure am now!

Our favorite genre of apology.

We've never actually made AMA guests do the whole 'hold up piece of paper' thing, but this picture rocks very hard so we may well have to in future.

Now available in the shop! Deborah Parker's Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters from @harvardpress.bsky.social "chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men."

This Friday! Whiskerology author Sarah Gold McBride will be on the r/AskHistorians subreddit from 9 a.m. to midday EST, answering your burning questions about HAIR and its history in America. Join us: reddit.com/r/Askhistorians About Whiskerology: tinyurl.com/ye42upd9

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

Loeb Classical Library update. Still a modest collection, but growing! I've read maybe 1/3 of these by now, so plenty of reading still ahead.