Andrew Berzanskis
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Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account.
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pinned post!
Even rockier times ahead for academia. I hope that any scholar serving as a peer reviewer will recognize the headwinds facing writers of serious books right now & feel the urgency to use peer review as an opportunity for solidarity in building things up, not tearing them down.
about 1 year ago
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy
about 6 hours ago
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.
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Tim Bowman
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Out this fall with OU Press! 🗃️
www.oupress.com/978080619723...
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Looking for Justice in Texas - University of Oklahoma Press
Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas. Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launc...
https://www.oupress.com/9780806197234/looking-for-justice-in-texas/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQ34NpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEes7xjDO3oBnQx7YE7pDhFWQkrEhc5aInGTRY6vpxbQ1QsuqM5QuEVjWYzfk4_aem_DoMOWbUVSfEEcxfGQteX8g
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Victorian Poetry
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@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...
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Rebecca Colesworthy
about 24 hours ago
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 even as other supports have been withdrawn--& collaborators in the production of scholarly knowledge.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! 💪
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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"
about 22 hours ago
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Jessica Cory
1 day ago
Look at this beautiful cover, friends! The spring edition of Appalachian Journal should be hitting mailboxes beginning next week.
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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.
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OU History Department
1 day ago
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!
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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"
2 days ago
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Bryan Alexander
2 days ago
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...
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Penn State University Press
2 days ago
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
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Working in book publishing requires manic swings between extroversion and introversion, so many, many, many times a day.
2 days ago
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University of Arkansas Press
2 days ago
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...
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"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"
3 days ago
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Kate Carpenter
4 days ago
150,000 podcast downloads!! Love
@draftingthepast.bsky.social
? Tell a friend about it!
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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!
4 days ago
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University of Washington Press
4 days ago
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.
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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."
4 days ago
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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.
4 days ago
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K.C. Mead-Brewer
5 days ago
the exquisite privacy of reading a physical book
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"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"
5 days ago
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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."
5 days ago
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Washington, DC.
6 days ago
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Liana Krissoff
6 days ago
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.”
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Much missed at
#SMH2026
:
@dgershenowitz.bsky.social
6 days ago
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Most unexpected signage at
#SMH2026
may be the "no soccer" sticker inside the lobby's revolving door.
7 days ago
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SMH Historians
7 days ago
Make sure to stop by Arlington Ballroom to browse for books and socialize in between panels.
#SMH2026
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De Gruyter Brill History
7 days ago
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
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Bethany Wasik
7 days ago
Truth from
@jeffcrutherford.bsky.social
! And on the
@cornellupress.bsky.social
#SMH2026
table!
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Bethany Wasik
7 days ago
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...
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7 days ago
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
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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"
8 days ago
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Dr. Brian Laslie
8 days ago
Signed copies at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum!!
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University of Oklahoma Press
8 days ago
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...
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Ski, Climb, Fight: The 10th Mountain Division and the Rise of Mountain Warfare Review - The Army Historical Foundation
". . . A recommended read for anyone interested in the 10th Mountain Division, World War II history, or the development of American skiing and mountaineering."
https://armyhistory.org/ski-climb-fight-the-10th-mountain-division-and-the-rise-of-mountain-warfare-review/
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University of Washington Press
8 days ago
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...
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John Warner
8 days ago
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...
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You Need Time to Develop as a Writer. A Long Time.
A guest post on what it means to write “long” and why we should help students do it.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2026/03/25/you-need-time-develop-writer-long-time
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy
9 days ago
<blushing> This book and the author-illustrator team were an absolute joy and privilege.
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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!
8 days ago
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"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"
9 days ago
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OU History Department
9 days ago
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!
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University of Missouri Press
9 days ago
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...
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2026 Annual Meeting | The Society for Military History
https://www.smh-hq.org/annualmeeting/index.html
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Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke
11 days ago
Getting ready for
#SMH2026
with some old, some new, some thats basically borrowed and def more than one thing blue :)
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Joel Pinckney
9 days ago
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.
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Daegan Miller
9 days ago
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!)
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Each day I work in publishing makes me feel acutely how many, many books I have not read. Or even heard of!
9 days ago
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Dedication page for "Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk" by Pat Blashill.
10 days ago
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Bethany Wasik
10 days ago
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...
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SMH 2026 Books on Display
In coordination with the Society for Military History annual meeting in Arlington, Virginia, we’ve created this online portal so you can take advantage of the book deals normally only given to physica...
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-smh-2026-books-on-display/
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Jeff Manuel
10 days ago
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?...
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February 2026 History Book Club | Ethanol
YouTube video by DepartmentHistory
https://youtu.be/eGcHlh7t-lc?si=YjZtrZCRsgVbo-GZ
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University of Oklahoma Press
10 days ago
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/...
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The enigmatic Isthmian inscriptions
A long-undeciphered script receives renewed attention and a contested interpretation
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee2603
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Thijs Heus
16 days ago
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.
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