More like The End of Reading The Atlantic Is Here. Please. I'll stick with reading books instead of doomscroll bait masquerading as cultural criticism. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

At this year's @aupresses.bsky.social annual conference in Seattle, talked all week about AI, open access, discoverability, and the future of publishing. Then we spent an evening at the beautiful Elliott Bay Book Company recommending books to each other. Some things never go out of style!!

I’ve been hinting about my current project for a while, and am so excited to (finally) announce it! I’m writing FALSE IDOLS: HOW GREAT MAN HISTORY LEFT OUR PAST IN RUINS with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. Truly a dream come true, and I can’t wait for you all to read it.

cover reveal for my first series editor project for @uchicagopress.bsky.social: Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes! Stuart Gordon & Chicago’s Organic Theater Company. out in October! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Everyone should listen to Gautham Rao talk about how much James Buchanan sucked. Also, if he had to invent a dish inspired by Buchanan, it would be unseasoned dough that you have to eat raw. Not cookie dough. Just...sad, yucky raw dough.

“The policing is the payout." Read @saigrundy.bsky.social's @theguardian.com excellent essay on the psychological wages of whiteness, which draws on @gauthamrao.bsky.social's WHITE POWER: POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY (which feels especially urgent right now). www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...

If you know the particular mix of love, sacrifice, expectation, and guilt that comes with immigrant parents, please read this one. Out Sept 15. And happy Father’s Day! @aadeleon.bsky.social

I know it’s just an advanced reader copy, but look at this beauty!! Thank you so much for sending, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social! (Sonya’s the one to ask if you’re looking for one!)

I didn’t go to the mailbox last night expecting to receive the Advance Reader Copy of the single best book on the 19th century history of the US Supreme Court (with enormous implications for today’s SCOTUS, such as it is or isn’t) but there it was! Congratulations @rachelshelden.bsky.social

This Juneteenth, we’re spotlighting two books that explore how Black Americans fought to define freedom after emancipation and how those struggles still shape our present 👇 📖 Read this Q&A with the authors 📚 Enjoy 50% off both titles (today only!) with code 01JUNETEENTH50 https://ow.ly/iBJT50Ze11L

The best part about writing #TheTrinity was sharing it with family, friends, & colleagues. Thank you to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and SMU's Center for Presidential History for hosting the launch. And 🙌 to @andrewwinters.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social for believing in this project!

Thank you to #AUPresses2026 host @uwapress.uw.edu! We love your city, your press, and your authors 🫶

Thank you @ibramxk.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social for a truly memorable book talk and signing! And standing room only?!? An incredible honor 🙏🏼

Sleepless in Seattle (I will be sleeping as soon as I get to my hotel, but for now…)

And then, on a casual Wednesday in June, a box arrived and "The Trinity" was finally here! I'm nervous and happy and grateful, all at once.📕📘 #TheTrinity #JFK

🎉 I’m deeply honored to share that Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons @uncpress.bsky.social is co-winner of the 2026 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award!

TONIGHT: DC friends, please join me in conversation with the great @ibramxk.bsky.social about my book, "White Power: Policing American Slavery," at Politics & Prose (@politicsprose.bsky.social) on Connecticut Avenue NW, 7 pm! politics-prose.com/gautham-rao-...

We are so proud to be named INDIE Publisher of the Year by Foreword! 🎉 bit.ly/43hCNQ0

Bag of cherries at Harris Teeter was gonna cost $25

Your annual reminder that Pride Month is also a great excuse to buy more books 🌈📚 And ours are on sale! uncpress.org/pride/

Who's heading to Seattle for #AUPresses2026? I'd love to meet some of the folks I know primarily through listservs. And: let's start a panel thread. I'm on Sunday at 10:45 about crafting book titles that sell. Share yours so we can cheer each other on and fill some seats! @aupresses.bsky.social

My audiobook is out today! No better way to feel like you‘ve said something smart than to have someone read it in a very theatrical voice.

July 1st is a phenomenal lineup (thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social) with a panel on Race, Rights, and American Democracy with author of Requiem for Reconstruction @robertdbland.bsky.social, author of The Trinity @sharronwconrad.bsky.social and author of No Common Ground @drkarenlcox.bsky.social

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

📕Advance Review Copies📕 of THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY by @rachelshelden.bsky.social are finally here!* Who needs a copy?**

This conversation at the American Political History Conference this Friday was always important, but it gets more relevant by the day. 🗃️ Looking forward to talking with @jamellebouie.net @nikobowie.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social

Our conversation explores the legalization and deputization of whiteness, how pivotal the Prigg v. Pennsylvania court case was, how class tensions impacted the enforcement of the Posse Comitatus doctrine, and more!

In today’s edition of Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, @johngmarks.com stops by to discuss two centuries of debates about remembering Washington and shares tales about writing his new book, Thy Will Be Done. #America250 #VastEarlyAmerica www.cliodigital.media/sally/john-g...

@gauthamrao.bsky.social is making the rounds on the history podcast circuit today! Here's another great conversation about WHITE POWER with @civicspod.bsky.social www.civicsandcoffee.com/fear-based-l...

It was an honor to be a guest on @draftingthepast.bsky.social to discuss my…erm…let’s call it haphazard process to writing this book! A real thrill to be included on a podcast that I treasure and listen to religiously. Thank you @katecarp.bsky.social!

A system built to control one group never limits itself. Review of @gauthamrao.bsky.social's WHITE POWER in the Saturday Evening Post:

Spotted in the NYT book review 👀 @gauthamrao.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

Check out our conversation with Mary Mendoza about her new book, Deadly Divide, just out from @uncpress.bsky.social! About blurring human-animal divides, and the application to immigrants language about cattle, lice, etc.

I certainly don't want to remind anyone that they have to teach in August BUT if you're teaching about 20th-century US history and want a provocative take on a subject of high popular interest, check out GUN COUNTRY. I would also be delighted to Zoom into your class!

Let's start a thread of UNC Press books you've assigned and which classes you've used them in ☺️

A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today. Review of WHITE POWER by @gauthamrao.bsky.social in @theartsfuse.bsky.social

Memorial Day weekend in colonial Williamsburg

“Cubans and Cuban Americans deserve more than endless historical war, or symbolic indictments in a U.S. court. They deserve the possibility of a new national story — one that is all their own.” @mjbusta.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com

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Headed to Colonial Williamsburg tomorrow with the kids and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED to see the printing press in action, obsess over the harpsichord makers, cast my vote for the innocence of the Virginia Witch, go on a ghost tour, join the 2d Virginia regiment, churn some butter, etc. etc.!!

Three signs that bookclub email you just got is probably a scam 🚩 1) Generic gmail (or similar) address 2) The book club, award, or organization doesn’t exist when you look it up 3) The email is overly long, vague, and full of excessive praise (often AI-written)

Few people have had more of an impact on my understanding of the nineteenth century than historian Douglas Egerton. I am honored that he has endorsed my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw. cc: @uncpress.bsky.social amzn.to/4uSy2Iq

If I wasn't flying out to Seattle for @aupresses.bsky.social conference the next day I would be hauling myself up to DC for this conversation between @gauthamrao.bsky.social and @ibramxk.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social next month! politics-prose.com/gautham-rao-...

Someone read Stephen King's IT in one sitting, 6am to 8pm. I have decided to do this (not IT, will choose something entirely and utterly different and also much shorter) on my birthday next week.