How do books get to booksellers' shelves? Davida Breier, Director of Hopkins Fulfillment Services explains Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask — a guest post at Feeding the Elephant! tinyurl.com/e75p9hmk

You can't beat the low price of free.

See upweek.up.hcommons.org/celebrate/un... for more details!

It's Friday night baby

The newest episode of #HistoryinFocus looks at the recent special edition of the #AHR's History Unclassified—"Mistakes I Have Made." @danieljstory.bsky.social speaks with the History Unclassified editors Kate Brown and Emily Callaci and nine contributors to the issue. Listen at the link. 🗃️

Again, your mostly non-profit mostly uni press humanities publishers are not the thing making a wreckage of scholarly publishing. Paying for their work is a good thing, and we should keep doing that.

This is a very cool opportunity for anyone looking to get into the world of history podcasting!

Proud to show off some of our WHA award-winning journal articles: Arrington-Prucha Prize from CALIFORNIA HISTORY "Born-Again Boogie: Christian Nightclub Experiments in California, 1970–1990" tinyurl.com/cubpkh2r Eric Gonzaba

When the new books just keep on coming:

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey historians 🗃: have you published in the AHR? How was your experience? Is it worth the extra rigamarole? I have an article I'm working on that might be a good fit, and I'm no longer under the gun for tenure. What should I know about the process?

The September 2025 issue of the American Historical Review is live! academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...

Starting a new cross stitch pattern this weekend, based on a 17th century Norwegian wall hanging.

Registration for our free Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, October 24–25, at the University of Texas at Dallas, is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions about introductory history courses and student success in Texas.

Beautiful day at Soldier's Delight

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

"The most popular new student choices of major reinforce the importance of foundational humanities disciplines, while the breadth of majors among all enrolled students seems to reflect a broadening of interests over time" bit.ly/4fFmCkZ

“The future of doctoral education in many humanities fields in the United States is bleak. We must find practical ways to fight austerity, help PhD students thrive when academic jobs are scarce, and engage them in the urgent mission of attracting the next generation of undergraduates” bit.ly/3JeNIDk

To me, this is Digital Humanities

It's fall catalog season! 🍂📚

Some really good lines in here: “Great works of history are transformative because they are neither predictable nor obvious; therefore, they cannot be replaced by a technology that simply reproduces existing patterns.”

New in the August 2025 JSH: "Homeplace Politics on the New River: Rural Environmentalism in Southern Appalachia, 1962–1976," by Madison W. Cates muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

#CFP: New Directions in Taiwan History – Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins, February 26-27, 2026 at University of Washington, Seattle. Submit paper abstracts for consideration by October 10, 2025. buff.ly/yT3Mknw

Explore JJS's Summer 2025 issue: online.ucpress.edu/jjs?searchre.... Discover new book reviews and articles by Reut Harari, Edwin Michielsen, Andre Haag, Melek Ortabasi, Brian Hurley, and Satoru Hashimoto’s timely Perspectives article “Repairing a Form of Life: Ritual in Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain.”

Calling all chonky tomes

If you've published with Johns Hopkins University Press, this article is relevant to you.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

Replenished the snack stash because this September issue isn’t going to publish itself!

#OAH26 and #SHEAR26 are both in Philly next year?!

“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar” In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom. Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

It's very much summer outside today, but in my inbox, it's fall. The fall catalogs are HERE. 🍂

Really excited to list to this episode!

First, coffee. Then, proofs. So many proofs.

"Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences... would lose all of its funding from the university." bit.ly/3TWianA

Jeden Tag bis zum Historikertag eine Fachsektion! Heute: Richtungsweisende Flaggschiffe? Macht und Ohnmacht geschichtswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften im Wandel mit: Julia Hillner, Andreas Fahrmeir und Sophie Wagenhofer (Sektionsleitung)

Wow this is so cool

NARA posted a clarification this morning on X:

it's good to see things like this www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

FYI: An excellent review of Janet Martin-Nielsen's "A Few Acres of Ice" has landed in AHR, noting how its "close attention to this forbidding stretch of Antarctic coast makes a long overdue addition to both French imperial and Antarctic historiographies." (1/2) academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

I’m delighted to share that my article, “The Opiated Ocean” is out today in the #AHR: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... For those curious, here’s how the article came about🧵 (1/5)

academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13... The June 2025 issue is live!

As I was saying. Just gonna blog it at this point, but people should be more concerned about it. ppsri.org/historic-pre...

My review article, "How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages" in the American Historical Review is out. This was a lot of fun and I try to make sense of 500+ years of recent economic histories. Find it: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... 1/

Like many of you, I'm starting out #AHAReads with the book that's been sitting on my shelf too long. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai (2004). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

People coming to DC this summer to do research at the National Archives for the first time might find this thread helpful!

Well, the size didn't turn out quite like a traditional bookmark, but it'll do. Just need to blanket stitch the edges and it should be ready in time for #AHAreads

Battled the weekend crowds at Library of Congress but it was worth it for the new exhibit! The new Collecting Memories is exhibit was great too but I forgot to get a photo.

That feeling when you've just started a new book, but the library hold you've been waiting on for weeks finally becomes available...