Absolute Gangster. Because, Friday. Cheers, team. Let's weekend.

Lilia Topouzova discusses her new book, Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag, in an informal interview with the European Review of Books. Published by Cornell University Press, her book is a study of Bulgaria's forced labour camps. europeanreviewofbooks.com/texting-with...

We had a @cornellupress.bsky.social new book party and there were new published pretty books and colleagues excited about books and snacks and they were all very good things.

FYI #FrenchHistory, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, and @cornellupress.bsky.social fans: The stunning cover for Samuel D. Anderson's "The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa" is a real thing(!) and you can pre-order here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

Team, I have great news. Great cover news. Great Hegel cover news. Great Thomas L. Pangle's Hegel book cover news. Great new Hegel book for the @cornellupress.bsky.social #AgoraEditions series cover news. Pretty Great, right? And Essential. Great and Essential.

FYI: A superb review of Andrew Buchanan & @lawlorruth.bsky.social's "The Greater Second World War" has landed in Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Intrigued? More on this "luminous collection of essays" at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"In 'Resurrecting the Past,' Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past—a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over a forgotten 'heritage mandate.'" www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/an-excavatio...

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Friday. Took a social media break this week. Feeling like a Prizefighter. Cheers, team.

This was a Week. A week of confusion. I made mistakes of dates and times every day and one was even my birthday so that's where we are this Friday. The solution is a Sake Martini. Obviously. And a Weekend. Cheers, team.

Today!

This weekend, UA Press and UW Press are teaming up for a game-day showdown—and a book sale to remember: the Margin of Victory Sale! Whoever wins the Alabama vs. Wisconsin football game on Saturday, Sept. 13, the margin of victory = your discount. Check back Saturday evening for the discount!

How do I find the right university press to publish my book? https://bit.ly/468Rupu @univpressofkansas.bsky.social answers this important question, one of more than 110 FAQs that host presses have answered on our Ask UP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Secret letters. Big ideas. One of history’s most #controversial thinkers. LETTERS FROM ROUSSEAU, edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly, reveals personal and #political messages never meant to stay private. #Rousseau #NewBooks Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I've reached "take the day off and not read any emails and bake cakes" years old.

Friday. Chocolate Sazarac to start a birthday weekend after another very weird and exhausting Week. But we did it again, team. Cheers.

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

Inviting the AUPresses community to attend the "AUPresses Hangout - Peer Review and Indigenous Collaborators," Thurs 9/18 at 4p ET, sponsored by our Acquisitions Editorial Committee during #PeerReviewWeek. Register today: https://bit.ly/4p8Ff4O

ICYMI: Great praise for "Letters from Rousseau" in Law and Liberty, noting how Eve Grace and @chrisjkelly.bsky.social's @cornellupress.bsky.social detailed and expansive volume "deepen[s] our understanding of Rousseau, to whose writings we attribute permanent worth." lawliberty.org/book-review/...

FYI, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, #FrenchHistory, & @cornellupress.bsky.social book fans: The superb cover for Susannah Wilson's "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, & Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" is here! Intrigued? FYI2: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

A #FreeBooks #ReadUP reminder! @cornellupress.bsky.social has 250+ OA titles in 25+ subject areas available for download directly from Cornell Open: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open/ or from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, JSTOR, Project MUSE, & OAPEN. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/the-intrigui...

Should I Show This in Class?: How to Think about Using War and Atrocity Photographs in Teaching, Research, and Life. #AuthorBlog by Daniela R. P. Weiner ow.ly/pH2z50Tmcqk

TFW the Normal style in Word changes from my default setting to something completely different.

Next week!

FYI: Great, well-deserved recognition for Dr. Trinidad Rico in @foreignaffairs.com on her @cornellupress.bsky.social book "The Heritage State: Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar": www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/heri... Intrigued? More here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

FYI, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, #FrenchHistory, & @cornellupress.bsky.social book fans: The superb cover for Susannah Wilson's "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, & Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" is here! Intrigued? FYI2: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

ICYMI, #AncientBlueSky: A stellar review of Stephen A. Mitchell's 2nd volume of "Old Norse Folklore" (in the #MythAndPoeticsII series) in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature-b... More on both of his @cornellupress.bsky.social volumes here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book-listing...

Ok, August. I'm ready for you.

Friday. I made a new cocktail variation, and I'm calling it a Blue Sake Sidecar. This is the right type of chaos, after a week of the not right kind of chaos. Sigh. Cheers, team. You're the best.

idk if this is a thing, but are there historians with a specialty in the use of public transportation during war?

ICYMI, #AncientBlueSky: A stellar review of Stephen A. Mitchell's 2nd volume of "Old Norse Folklore" (in the #MythAndPoeticsII series) in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature-b... More on both of his @cornellupress.bsky.social volumes here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book-listing...

Great @theconversation.com Q&A by @carolinesequin.bsky.social on her award-winning "Desiring Whiteness" that "explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, particularly in Senegal." theconversation.com/sex-workers-... (1/2)

So far today, I said "no" to two things and "yes" to one and this is good progress.

Thrilled to be giving a book talk later this year at the Italian-German Historical Institute for my forthcoming book with @cornellupress.bsky.social Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy! Information below.

The good news is, it's time for more coffee.

Friday. Old Roma. A very stressful week, but a weekend of baking and books awaits. Cheers, team.

Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.

Are you passionate about shaping groundbreaking scholarship in history? We're seeking a Senior Editor to join our team as the W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor—an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields 👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-w...

There will be a lot of baking this weekend.

FYI: Great, well-deserved recognition for Dr. Trinidad Rico in @foreignaffairs.com on her @cornellupress.bsky.social book "The Heritage State: Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar": www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/heri... Intrigued? More here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

We join with ACLS in this statement of concern. And we reiterate our community’s continuing commitment as mission-driven publishers to support scholars by widely disseminating their work, especially the untold stories of the United States’, and the world’s, diverse history.

Great news, team, that you didn't realize you needed - The new @cornellupress.bsky.social paperback edition of "The Gods of Egypt" by Claude Traunecker is now available! Intrigued? The information you didn't realize you needed, and more, here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...

Ok, but first, why is August more than halfway over?

In SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE, cowritten by Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 feminist historians uncover stories from the past as they explore the history of Lily Dale. From @cornellupress.bsky.social! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."

Friday. The Fourth Regiment. Cheers, team. The weekend.