Here we go! Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘 #PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...

I am seeking book recommendations for everyday life of women in colonial and early republic US, esp. if published since 2000. Suggestions?

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help! We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories." CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Deleting Academia@ account. Kept it far too long just because it provided access to many international scholars, but the new TOS are ... a lot.

#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress

Delighted that this popped up in my mailbox today! Congrats @sarahebull.bsky.social !

@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books! We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025). I can’t wait. 📜📚 www.weherepress.org

Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.

Do you want to help public radio after their loss of funding? Just use this website to find and donate. I’m a proud donor to @kcrw.com in Los Angeles. adoptastation.org

sounds great!

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...

Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2 #printsky #academicsky #typophile

It's here, it's here! Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions! www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

That's right, the only thing to do is to make chocolate-covered bugles. And eat them.

“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story.” ~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.

I was honored with an AAS-NEH Fellowship in the year. The National Endowment for the Humanities has been critical support for scholars and the American Antiquarian Society. Loss of grants and fellowships will impoverish our understanding of the past.

PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.

Fabulous: Chopstick Sleeves as art

Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...

If you have a library card, in the U.S. and possibly elsewhere, you can read millions of books for free through the Libby app.

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/