Happy #pubday to "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" by Eran Shalev! Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10148/ #skystorians #booksky

For those interested in Jane Austen and the 18th century novel, Sarah Eron wrote a compelling book from @uvapress.bsky.social on memory fiction from Defoe to Austen. There’s a fine analysis of Mansfield Park & the Lockean concept of memory. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5465/ #JaneAusten250

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

Thrilled to be discussing my research on Hannah Nokes Dec 13 at Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg. "Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion" from @uvapress.bsky.social will be available for purchase. #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #TransHistory #Loudoun www.leesburgva.gov/Home/Compone...

Happy #pubday to "Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice" by Gregory S. Gordon! The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century’s great warriors for justice. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10088/

Heading to @thesouthernsha.bsky.social next week? Join the Society of Civil War Historians Early Career Committee for for our annual Happy Hour! 5:00-6:30 pm Friday, November 7 in The Glades @jcwe.bsky.social 🗃️

Check out Miles Hubble's review of Andrew Kalaidjian's "Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change," published in 2025 by @uvapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

An exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors. Presenting a range of exciting archival discoveries, illuminating the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible. Buy Here: 📚 buff.ly/dgsBKl8 #HalloweenReads #UniversityofVirginiaPress

Are you attending the Southern next month? Have a project you'd like to pitch to an editor? Send us a DM to set up a meeting! @joursouhist.bsky.social #skystorians

Nov. 12! Andrew Dolkart leads a virtual architectural tour of 97 Orchard Street. Learn how a gas jet, a toilet, and faded wallpaper shed light on national and local history! Register below👇 www.tenement.org/events/virtu...

www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic... UVA Press author Yanick Lahens has won the Académie Française's Grand Prix du roman, one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France. Join us in congratulating her!

newbooksnetwork.com/unleashing-b... Check out this interview with author Peter D. Blackmer by Michael Stauch of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

"If students read only one book about the long shadow of enslavement on southern universities, 'After Emancipation' should be it." —@joursouhist.bsky.social www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5925/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

It's Halloween, a perfect time to revisit the life and work of the "master of the macabre" Edgar Allan Poe! "It is well that a writer of such canonical importance should have a definitive biography, and Kopley certainly seems the man to write it." —@wsj.com www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10034/

Always great to see authors and their books! Hannah Spahn, author of “Black Reason, White Feeling” and @stevesarson.bsky.social, author of “The Course of Human Events” stopped by our table at @oieahc.bsky.social Give them a read today!

We’re here! Come say hi, pitch us your projects, and get 50% off display copies!

The @oieahc.bsky.social "For 2026: Wartime Transformations" conference starts tomorrow at William & Mary! If you can't make it in person, check out our virtual exhibit and take advantage of the 40% conference discount! Enter <10WMBURG25> at checkout www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/wmb...

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Happy #pubday to "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" by Matthew Mason! How American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

Happy #pubday to "Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World" by Erin Pearson! How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10149/ #booksky

Happy #pubday to "Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen" by Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social! Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10157/ #booksky

What effect does climate change have on the flora of our nation's capital? Quite a lot actually. Melanie Choukas-Bradley, author of CITY OF TREES: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE TREES OF WASHINGTON D.C., talks to the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

It's October, the perfect month to celebrate the master of #mystery and the #macabre! In Episode 742 @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Richard Kopley about his book Edgar Allan Poe: A Life. #books @uvapress.bsky.social #edgarallanpoe

"I hope my book motivates more people to travel, to take risks, to be outspoken, to record what they experience, to defend our rights, and when necessary, to protest and resist." After the War: Author and Aid Worker Claudia Krich Challenges the Myths of Vietnam msmagazine.com/2025/10/16/v...

ICYMI: Be on the lookout for the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book with @uvapress.bsky.social, coming out in February 2026!

Are you attending the Southern next month? Have a project you'd like to pitch to an editor? Send us a DM to set up a meeting! @joursouhist.bsky.social #skystorians

Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

Many thanks to the Arlington Public Library for hosting our “Queer Virginia” author event for LGBTQ+ History Month! We definitely appreciated the insightful, engaged audience! #queerhistory @uvapress.bsky.social

The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference is going on now! If you can't be there in person, visit our virtual exhibit here: upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/JWI... Use promo code <10JWIL25> for 40% off through the end of the month!

Happy #pubday to "Vignettes of Colonial Virginia: Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America" by Brent Tarter! Illuminating stories of colonial life from the dean of Virginia history upress.virginia.edu/title/10150/ #booksky #skystorians

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Happy #pubday to "The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine" by Paul William Child! Understanding Jonathan Swift’s medical and literary life upress.virginia.edu/title/10133/ #swiftie #readUP #booksky

Read an interview with the author: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne... "The American public played an extremely active role in determining – not simply reacting to – American imperial policy during the Early Republic."

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Happy #pubday to "Napoleon in America: Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire" by Mark F. Ehlers! How Napoleon’s legacy infused American debates over empire in the nineteenth century upress.virginia.edu/title/10137/ #skystorians #booksky

Delighted to say that The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States has won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for the best manuscript in eighteenth-century studies submitted to @uvapress.bsky.social www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

Happy #pubday to "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" by Peter D. Blackmer! Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life upress.virginia.edu/title/10145/ #booksky #skystorians

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Visit our ASALH virtual exhibit: upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/ASA... Use code <10ASALH25> for 40% off books below through October 15!

Happy #pubday to "Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions" by Kilian Harrer! How Catholic pilgrims in an era of revolution challenged state authority and redefined the practice of their faith upress.virginia.edu/title/10138/ #skystorians

Happy #pubday to "Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness" by Miho Mazereeuw! "Those who seek to keep residents and communities safe from shocks of all kinds will learn something important from this book." —Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University upress.virginia.edu/title/5509/

Happy #pubday to "George Washington: His Quest for Honor and Fame" by Peter R. Henriques! A concise, compelling biography of Washington and the forces that drove him "An interpretative key to understanding this guarded, complex figure." National Review upress.virginia.edu/title/10159/ #booksky

#DMV friends, hope you can join me Oct 9 at this Arlington Library event with Charles Ford and Jay Watkins, co-chair of @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social, as we discuss our new book “Queer Virginia” from @uvapress.bsky.social arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/15366220

Happy #pubday to "After the Fire: Richmond in Defeat" by Nelson D. Lankford! How the Confederate capital’s citizens, white and Black, faced their future in the wake of Union victory "A triumph." —Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University upress.virginia.edu/title/10095/ #skystorians #booksky

Buildings of Missouri – Buildings of the United States Register here! slpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6786b...

Still one of the best titles out there: Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social

Happy #pubday to "The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Century— Volume 2" by Earl E. Fitz Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas "A foundational new book." —Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple University upress.virginia.edu/title/10094/