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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/

Virginia has grown an organizational unicorn to track political money. Here's the story behind it. cardinalnews.org/2025/08/29/v...

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New review of "A Waltz" by Lynda Chouiten, translated by Skyler Artes, from @worldlittoday.bsky.social "A novel that is both deeply personal and politically resonant, seamlessly blending poetic prose with trenchant social critique." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Happy #pubday to "Trusted Source: How a Virginia Nonprofit Gained Bipartisan Support in an Era of Political Polarization" by David M. Poole! How the Virginia Public Access Project revolutionized political transparency and won public trust upress.virginia.edu/title/10103/

Editors of "Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion," published by @uvapress.bsky.social, to speak at Library of Virginia September 30 #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/15187738

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Happy #pubday to "Slavery's Medicine: Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean" by Claire E. Gherini! Healthcare and hierarchy in Caribbean plantation slavery upress.virginia.edu/title/10074/ #booksky #skystorians #readUP

August is Women in Translation Month! UVA Press is proud to publish outstanding works of fiction and criticism, and we are happy to offer 40% off these titles when you use promo code <10WITMONTH> Happy reading! #readUP #booksky #WITMonth 📚

Rotunda, the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press, is honored to be included in a generous grant awarded to UVA by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award will fund numerous documentary-editing projects hosted at UVA . . . 1/5

upress.virginia.edu/title/10055/... New and exciting book publication!

Nice new review for "From Dakota to Dixie" on Emerging Civil War! "White and Connelly have done an excellent job of making Buswell’s diary an engaging and useful resource, that’s well worth the reader’s time." #ReadUP emergingcivilwar.com/2025/08/07/b... #skystorians #booksky

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Happy #pubday to "Ultimate Questions: A Stakeholder Guide to the Business of Your Life" by Andrew C. Wicks, with Alexander S. Bleiberg and John K. Nolan! The accumulated wisdom of a beloved business professor’s signature course upress.virginia.edu/title/10165/ #booksky #readUP

A classic dissertation about free people of color is now available in book form!

Happy #pubday to "The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832" by Reginald D. Butler! Edited by Peter S. Onuf A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies upress.virginia.edu/title/10055/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

Happy #pubday to "Seeking Justice: The Extraordinary Freedom Suits of an Enslaved Virginia Family" by Daniel B. Thorp! "A masterful study." —Richard Bell, author of "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home" upress.virginia.edu/title/10101/ #booksky #readUP

At last week’s @shearites.bsky.social conference, the new #ITPS series made an appearance at the @uvapress.bsky.social table!

SHEAR 2025 is over but the conference discount code lives on...until August 15! Use promo code <10SHEAR25> at checkout for 40% off select books! upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/SHE... #booksky #readUP

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Congratulations to Patrick Spero on winning The James C. Bradford Biography Prize for blank. #SHEAR2025

Congratulations to Adam McNeil on winning The SHEAR Dissertation Prize. #SHEAR2025

Hey #SHEAR2025 attendees! Want a Worlds Turned Upside Down or Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant sticker? Stop by our friends @uvapress.bsky.social in the book room to pick one up AND buy a great book by many contributors to both series. @shearites.bsky.social

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Happy #pubday to "The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World's Fair to a Virginia HBCU" by Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green! A singular architectural landmark bridging western Europe and the American South upress.virginia.edu/title/10083/

Happy #pubday to the new edition of "Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street" by Andrew S. Dolkart! upress.virginia.edu/title/3695/ #booksky #readUP

Alexandra Finley’s (@alexfinley.bsky.social) review of Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century (@uvapress.bsky.social) by Ellen Malenas Ledoux doi.org/10.1215/1547...

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment conference is wrapping up, but our 40% discount code <10ASLE25> is active through the end of the month. Don't miss out! Check out our virtual exhibit here: upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/ASL...

Congratulations to Mark H. Hough, author of "Design through Time: Evolving Landscapes, from Alcatraz to Prospect Park", who has been awarded the LaGasse Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects! "The best of the best in landscape architecture." archinect.com/news/bustler...

Check out Richard Kopley, author of "Edgar Allan Poe: A Life" on the Speaking of Writers podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #booksky #readUP

“Miller's beautifully written & highly persuasive work both urges us to reread 19th century narratives with attention to their ecological plots, & to reexamine ecology as a concept that, from its very beginnings, was rooted in storytelling.” Thank you, Review 19, for this lovely review of my book!

Happy #pubday to "Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions", edited by Nathaniel Robert Walker and Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann! Part of our new series Race, Place, and Justice. The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world upress.virginia.edu/title/10084/ #booksky #readUP

Check out this piece for Time Magazine/Made by History by UVA Press author Shira Lurie👇 time.com/7297248/crus...

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Happy #pubday to "Purge and Bleed: Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine" by Marshall Foletta Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century upress.virginia.edu/title/10089/ #booksky #skystorians #readUP

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Happy #pubday to "Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World", edited by David Alff and Danielle Spratt Spreading the news of scientific breakthroughs in the eighteenth century upress.virginia.edu/title/10024/ #readUP #skystorians #booksky

Artist Marwin Begaye stopped by our exhibit to show us his artwork in the @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans. @uvapress.bsky.social contributor Cristina Azocar is also below with Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca #NAISA2025 #indigenous