Share the story of America’s monuments this season with American Shrines—a great gift for the historian in your life! Use code HOLIDAY at https://twp.ai/4isrqL to save 40% on your order today. #readUP #gift #history #Americanhistory #USmonuments

Exploring Malcolm Little’s childhood, prison years, and the people who influenced his transformation, Patrick Parr’s Malcolm Before X is a great book for any historian in your life. Use code HOLIDAY at umasspress.com to save 40% on your order. #readUP #gift #history #blackhistory #MalcolmX

Getting gifts for the history buff in your life? Check out our series for the cultural and political history of New England, America, and the wider world! Use code HOLIDAY at umasspress.com to save on your order now through December. #gifts #givebooks #holidaysale #readUP #shopsmall

Love it that @umasspress.bsky.social is suggesting Emerson's Daughters as the gift "for the feminist" in your life. 40% off with the code HOLIDAY until Jan. 3. #lifewriting www.umasspress.com/tis-the-seas...

I'm delighted to announce that my memoir GREEN WORLD won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2025 Literary Award for Nonfiction! I had a blast in Madison at the award ceremony and spending time with dear friends! Plus the farmer's market at the Capitol (be still my heart!). @umasspress.bsky.social

It's getting cooler and cozier and it's time to start thinking about what to get the book lovers in your life this holiday season (even if the book lover is yourself)! Use code HOLIDAY on our website to save 40%. Happy browsing! #gifts #giftbooks #givebooks #holidaysale #readUP #shopsmall

Looking for your next fall read? Check out our new November titles: Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change by Alexis Lathem, a stunning collection of personal meditations and sociopolitical investigations on a New England farm.

Two days until it’s released and I realise I haven’t skeeted about my book! So here’s my obligatory post… Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement, out with @umasspress.bsky.social on Friday! www.umasspress.com/978162534887...

Dr. Petrone "introduces us to a cultural community of learning at a skatepark, ultimately calling for educators to transform learning closer in to the natural ways people make meaning in their lives." Continue Dr. Cloth's review here: https://bit.ly/3Ww2fh2 University of Massachusetts Press

I'll be in #Gainesville and #Atlanta next week reading from my late wife and favorite human ever @saaramyrene.bsky.social's Juniper Prize-winning #poetry book "Chamber After Chamber" from @umasspress.bsky.social. Come say hi at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social or Tall Tales Book Shop

Coming off a celebration of #books at the #Provincetown Book Fest, where @umasspress.bsky.social author Cynthia Blakeley, author of a beautiful memoir on growing up in #Wellfleet on Cape, did a great job on a panel and sold fully out of her book! Get yours for a great read now. #CapeCod

Heading to @asalh-bhm.bsky.social conference this week, representing @umasspress.bsky.social. Stop by the Press table and say hello, and come to our #publishing panel on Thursday at noon!

For the sixth year, a generous donor is matching donations to our regional books fund 2:1! Why is the fundraiser so important? Find out more here: minutefund.uma-found... #ReadUP #Nonprofitpublishing #universitypress #newengland #regionalstories #regionalhistory #newenglandvoices #newenglandhistory

The #NASSH2025 Monograph Award Honorable Mention goes to Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth, by Kevin Tallec Marston and Mike Cronin, from @umasspress.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/4ds6uBW Award info: bit.ly/4k7FbzC #Skystorians #SportHistory

Aakriti Mandhwani, Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India, @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534790...

Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860, @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534755...

I got picked for #FirstLineFriday! And hurray that @umasspress.bsky.social is offering a special 20% discount on Green World to celebrate the occasion! www.umasspress.com/978162534782...

"...Lathem evokes the world of her farm and the surrounding countryside with a spiritual awareness of the human journey on this earth." Congrats to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Alexis Lathem on her new forthcoming book, published by @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534901...

“Sympathetic Magic from the Black Forest” - a poem from my book out next April with @umasspress.bsky.social - is in this issue. Thanks so much to KR!

Out October with @umasspress.bsky.social ‘Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement’ www.umasspress.com/978162534887... Preorder with 20% off using the code UMASS20

It's always exciting to see the winners of the @umasspress.bsky.social and UMass MFA for Poets and Writers announced. Where to start? Torn between Kirsten Kaschock's An Impossibility of Crows and Jason Bredle's Jason Bredle's I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language #booksky

Heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow for #ASEH2025. Come by the @umasspress.bsky.social table and say hello, and pitch your book if so inclined (not req), and see the beauties we’ve already published. You may even be able to take one home!

The larger story (in English) is in my book from @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534595...

We’re at OAH25 in Chicago! Stop by and say hi to Editor in Chief Matt Becker and Marketing and Sales Manager Chelsey Harris! #OAH #OAH25 #AmericanHistory

So happy to see our @umasspress.bsky.social series at the @ncph.bsky.social conference in Montreal! Very proud of the scholarship we have helped to bring out…. #booksky

📚 In today’s mailbag! 📕 How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist by @o3dipamass.bsky.social, pub by @fordhampress.bsky.social 📘 Writing Themselves Into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts Era by Amy Fish, pub by @umasspress.bsky.social 🔥 2 timely books on childhood, activism, & resistance! ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾✊🏼

Early spring is the perfect time to read something that will help you notice the world around you. Check out these new Southern March releases! @beaconpress.bsky.social @cmupress.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social @blairpub.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social

Women’s History Month at @umasspress.bsky.social - v proud of these titles, across disciplines and genres. #womenshistorymonth

This is an exciting new series with @umasspress.bsky.social I published my monograph with UMass Press & they were fab to work with. If you have a book idea that fits, definitely reach out to them!

Great event for UMass Boston Prof Joseph Cooper’s new @rutgersupress.bsky.social book, Black Sporting Resistance. He is now editing a brand new @umasspress.bsky.social series, Sport for Social Change, just getting started. Send inquiries!

My book Emerson's Daughters is coming out in July. Use code UMASS20 for 20% when ordering directly from @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534876...

#SmallPress #books 6/14 @graywolfpress.bsky.social @umissouripress.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social #antiklan #poetry #decolonizing #media

Thrilled by this interview with @umasspress.bsky.social author Cynthia Blakeley, whose well received #memoir of scrappy year round life on #CapeCod, full of family drama and smart reflections on memory. #Boston folks, get to one of her events next week!

Can confirm this is a fabulous collection. Reach out if you’re interested in reviewing!

Patrick Parr's MALCOLM BEFORE X is in such great company on this list! If you haven't snagged a copy already head over to our website (and use code UMASS20 to save 20%) or to your favorite retailer #newbooks #readUP #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #bookreview www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

And I have a little extra time this morning so here’s a few more bonus daily #SmallPress #books (see alt text for descs)! @wvupress.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social #BookSky #reading

Still spots open to meet with me at #mla25 next weekend and chat about your project’s fit with our list at @umasspress.bsky.social!

"Cynthia grew up in the wild nature of outer Cape Cod in a working-class family. . . . her story is poignant and loving, written in lyrical language, bringing her stories to heartbreaking and heartwarming light." #newbook #memoir #capecod #readUP www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Many thanks to @martinpengelly.bsky.social and @theguardian.com for this piece on MALCOLM BEFORE X by Patrick Parr, which is available now on our website and at your favorite retailer! #newbook #malcolmx #socialjustice #readUP www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Cool shelf display spotted by my friend at the wonderful @odysseybks.bsky.social! #GreenWorld #independentbookstore #shakespeare #memoir @umasspress.bsky.social

Join us, the Institute for Liberal Arts, and Emory Psychology to celebrate the launch of Cynthia Blakeley’s new book “The Innermost House: A Memoir” (@umasspress.bsky.social) this Wednesday 🎉 RSVP here: bit.ly/3OAb1H2

While I’m shouting out books, let me add another upcoming (December) title from our series at UMass Press, at the intersection of #sporthistory & #publichistory — this terrific book on soccer and American memory. #Boston #Booksky @umasspress.bsky.social

So excited about this forthcoming title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series (available for pre-order); trees have figured in #publichistory and community memory for so long—really excited to see the scholarship appearing soon. #EnvHum #Booksky

And I got a chance to hang out with Amy Fish, whose book on child authors is coming out in a few weeks!! Check it out! #kidlit @umasspress.bsky.social www.umasspress.com/978162534826...

Another fantastic review of a UMass Press book! Thanks to @erikloomis.bsky.social! If you're looking to pick this one up, don't forget that our holiday sale is live on our website! Using code HOLIDAY at checkout will save 40% on your order. #readUPv#bookreviewv#bookalert #readersunite

Such a good book to pick up during our holiday sale! All books are 40% on our website using code HOLIDAY. #readUP #stepUP #bookrecs #booksale

Holy crap! Thanks to Kristina Bross and American Literary History for a thoughtful review of Handwriting in Early America alongside Amy Gore's Book Anatomy. I'm delighted! #manuscript #bookhistory #c19 #c18 #digitalhumanities academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

We are beyond thrilled that Malcolm Before X by Patrick Parr is featured on this list of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2024! (and right in time for you to use code HOLIDAY at umasspress.com to save 40%) #ReadUP #StepUP #MalcolmX #socialjustice www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2024...

I’m fortunate to work with brilliant authors & colleagues at @umasspress.bsky.social and it’s worth checking out website. I’ll be posting on range incl my areas (print culture, env studies, lgbtq+ and gender studies, African American studies, Native studies, New England, etc) & probs w/ #publishing.