This reminds me of my old-timer insight that I learned a *ton* about publishing while filing (and reading) all the carbon copies of all correspondence. And became a better writer when using a manyal typewriter and *completely* retyping drafts.

Out this fall with OU Press! 🗃️ www.oupress.com/978080619723...

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social turns to the uni press, whose workers have a shared stake in fields like Victorian poetry. Discussing fantasies of crossover success & the little book genre, she attends to manufactured amateurism as struc condition & collaborative affordance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

For those in the @aupresses.bsky.social community: this is my attempt to make a case for appreciating, fighting for, & studying university presses & UP workers as investors--literally! even as other supports have been withdrawn--& collaborators in the production of scholarly knowledge. Solidarity! 💪

The difference between a millionaire, billionaire, and trillionaire, as explained in Ray D. Madoff's "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy"

Look at this beautiful cover, friends! The spring edition of Appalachian Journal should be hitting mailboxes beginning next week.

Sometimes I get a book proposal and think, if I could go back in time and publish this in 1987 it would have been a smash hit.

Congratulations to our grad students who received awards from the American Society for Environmental History at its recent conference! Zach Nora received the Equity Graduate Student Fellowship, and Ariel Schnee received the Early Career Research Grant. Fantastic work!

TIL that the Depression was so named by Herbert Hoover "in an effort to make it sound less scary than the Panic of 1893." —Ray D. Madoff, "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy"

How might we teach online with joy? I'm delighted to host @flowerdarby.bsky.social on the Future Trends Forum tomorrow to explore her new work: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This month, we're offering 40% off on books in Jewish Studies! Save on select titles with promo code JSS26 through 4/27. https://bit.ly/47CjzY1

Working in book publishing requires manic swings between extroversion and introversion, so many, many, many times a day.

Available for pre-order! Letters of a Poet Dying is a watershed publication—the first collection of correspondence by the virtuosic poet Frank Stanford (1948–78) www.uapress.com/product/lett...

"When I was thirteen, I thought Led Zeppelin were gods. But rock and roll only taught me how to be cool. Punk rock made a man out of me." —Pat Blashill, "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk"

150,000 podcast downloads!! Love @draftingthepast.bsky.social? Tell a friend about it!

A punk show: "People crowded into the lobby to escape the sound pressure waves, & they were peering around the door to watch the show, but also trying to take shelter from the blast, like the military people & scientists in those atomic bomb test films." —Blashill, Someday All the Adults Will Die!

In SEABIRDS AS SENTINELS, Eric Wagner of UW's @pugetsoundinstitute.org explores what seabirds can teach us about a changing ocean. Join us this spring for a book event to learn how seabirds draw together many threads—of climate change, of fisheries, and of histories human and more-than-human alike.

Thrilled to see @oupress.bsky.social in the bookstore of the National Museum of African American History and Culture—especially when it is represented by Amina Hassan's superb biography, "Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist."

Scholars may complain that an elevator pitch trivializes their work. But after listening to many book pitches over the past weekend, I'd say those who can't explain a project in 60 seconds will also struggle to explain it in 60 minutes.

the exquisite privacy of reading a physical book

"I heard the punk, but not the cow." —A disappointed audience member after a show by cowpunk band Hickoids, in Pat Blashill, "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk"

Proud to see @ouhistory.bsky.social represented in the Mount Vernon bookstore with Lauren Duval's "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence."

Washington, DC.

At the start of every baseball season it takes me a few games to get it through my head that the term of art is “flied out,” not “flew out.”

Much missed at #SMH2026: @dgershenowitz.bsky.social

Most unexpected signage at #SMH2026 may be the "no soccer" sticker inside the lobby's revolving door.

Make sure to stop by Arlington Ballroom to browse for books and socialize in between panels. #SMH2026

It might not look like it but it’s buzzingly busy here at #SMH2026 We brought all of your favorites and books that are not even on the market yet, so stop by to browse! @smh-historians.bsky.social

Truth from @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social! And on the @cornellupress.bsky.social #SMH2026 table!

Great news, #SkyStorians, @smh-historians.bsky.social, & #MilitaryHistory enthusiasts - @cornellupress.bsky.social is all set up for #SMH2026! Stop by to check out our important books, captivating covers, and super discounts. Or just for coffee and snacks, I hear there will be coffee and snacks...

Over at the @smh-historians.bsky.social conference, we've met @uchicagopress.bsky.social author John M. Kinder pictured below with his book, World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age. #smh2026

The lead singer of The Huns, addressing the crowd at Raul's, a punk club in Austin in 1978: "We're not here for your entertainment—you're here for ours." —Pat Blashill, "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk"

Signed copies at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum!!

Just in time for #SMH2026, a new review of SKI, CLIMB, FIGHT in On Point: The Journal of Army History! Read the review here ➡️ armyhistory.org/ski-climb-fi...

Hello from Kansas City! 👋 We're at #ASEH2026 with @aseh.bsky.social to share our new and forthcoming books in Environmental History. Our 40% off conference discount runs through April 30—visit our virtual exhibit to browse books and order: uwapress.uw.edu/american-soc...

In a guest column at my IHE joint, Julia Morgan McKenzie shares why we still have to help students experience "long writing." I understand why in-class, analog forms are being used for "academic integrity" reasons, but we can't do this exclusively. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

<blushing> This book and the author-illustrator team were an absolute joy and privilege.

Beer & Books & Campaigns & Commanders Friday, 3/27 at 3pm at #SMH2026 in the exhibits area. A colleague and I will be handing out tickets for free beer & wine at the @oupress.bsky.social exhibit to celebrate the legendary C&C series. Come say hello!

"In Cleveland and Leeds, punks thrived in industrial wastelands; in Texas, they played backyard barbecues and swimming holes." —Pat Blashill, "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk"

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose new book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, has been awarded the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for First Book!

The University of Missouri Press will attend the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History in Arlington, Virginia, from March 26-29. Visit us at Booth #18 for 30% off our military history titles. For more information: www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...

Getting ready for #SMH2026 with some old, some new, some thats basically borrowed and def more than one thing blue :)

Some days it just feels totally overwhelming, but on good days I find it to be sort of moving, that anyone at all would care about the weird little book I’m trying to get them to care about amidst the deluge.

Part of me fantasizes about how glorious a career in books would be—books! I love books!—and part of me thinks it would send me spiraling into the pit of anxiety (books!!! So! Many! Books!)

Each day I work in publishing makes me feel acutely how many, many books I have not read. Or even heard of!

Dedication page for "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk" by Pat Blashill.

Hi #SkyStorians and @smh-historians.bsky.social fans! Ready for #SMH2026? Awesome! Neither am I! But I have a great idea... We can prepare together by checking out @cornellupress.bsky.social's virtual exhibit full of stellar books and captivating covers: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-smh-2026...

Last month, Tom Rogers and I had the pleasure of joining the University of Minnesota's History Department book club to talk about _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. The recording is now up on YouTube! youtu.be/eGcHlh7t-lc?...

Check it out! @science.org calls The Isthmian Script: Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Writing by Martha J. Macri "intriguing"! Find out why ➡ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm on (broken) record lamenting that most equity teaching efforts try to "fix' the student or the teacher... Would be wonderful to start fixing the campus.