PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL by Kevin W. Hula and Douglas B. Harris presents a fully annotated edition of Riordon's work, providing an extraordinary account of the #political #corruption and profiteering of George Washington Plunkitt. #History Learn more here: https://ow.ly/xPY950YgluB

Making Music Together: Interracial Alliances and the Politics of Solidarity with Elissa Sampson, co-editor of FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR #SaveTheDate 🗓️ Sunday, May 3, 2026 / 2pm 📍56 E 1st St, New York, NY 🔗 elissasampsonauthor.com/events/d8f8lg8kne87sz2or4z5lem6

THE GREAT REPAIR explores how #Jews and #Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust—a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory—and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. https://ow.ly/p7Hr50Ybpxl

THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION William A. Hoisington Jr. reveals details on the working collaboration between Lyautey and Yusef bin Hassan, along with a new examination of the relationships between the protectorate's administrators and #Morocco's leaders. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/jO5a50Ybpuo

Tom Hulme in BELFASTMEN traces the intimate lives of men across time, space, and self-understanding: their meeting places, their sexual and romantic relationships. #LGBTQ Learn more here: https://ow.ly/BB9z50Ybpyx

Opening a Confiscated Archive: A View of the Interracial Yiddish Left's Origins, Impact and Legacy with Elissa Sampson, co-editor of FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR #SaveTheDate 🗓️Thursday, Apr 23, 2026 / 9pm ET 🔗 elissasampsonauthor.com/events/s27d2nv6kbrj1oftfuv3x5vc

THE GREAT REPAIR explores how #Jews and #Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust—a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory—and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. https://ow.ly/p7Hr50Ybpxl

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History Learn more here: https://ow.ly/luYG50Ybpqv

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice. Learn more: https://ow.ly/y9K850YbppO

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History Learn more here: https://ow.ly/luYG50Ybpqv

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice. Learn more: https://ow.ly/y9K850YbppO

THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION William A. Hoisington Jr. reveals details on the working collaboration between Lyautey and Yusef bin Hassan, along with a new examination of the relationships between the protectorate's administrators and #Morocco's leaders. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/jO5a50Ybpuo

Tom Hulme in BELFASTMEN traces the intimate lives of men across time, space, and self-understanding: their meeting places, their sexual and romantic relationships. #LGBTQ Learn more here: https://ow.ly/BB9z50Ybpyx

THE HUMAN EDGE shows that the challenge we face is no longer about using AI—it is about leading AI with clarity, discernment, and a commitment to human agency, as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows. #AI #Tech Order this book here: https://ow.ly/j5sp50XJsix

With a foreword by Russell Shorto, FIRE AND FREEDOM, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander and Robert Chiles, shows that events off the battlefield were just as meaningful as the fighting itself. #EarlyAmerica #History Order this book here: https://ow.ly/LlsF50XJsgY

LYRIC POETRY AS STATE CRITICISM IN MODERN JAPAN explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship, as Marianne Tarcov shows how lyric form enabled poets to veil their critique in plain sight. #Poetry Learn more here: https://ow.ly/GLi250XJscG

CRITICAL FAILURES revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of #Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. Miyabi Goto argues that this gap between theory and practice—hihyō's failure—opened unexpected pathways for what critical reading could be. Learn more here:https://ow.ly/oALs50XJs8m

In ROGUE STATES, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. #USHistory #NationalSecurity Learn more here: https://ow.ly/qCmu50XJrV8

Join Robert W. Snyder to talk about his book most recent book WHEN THE CITY STOPPED at the Historic Richmond Town, in Staten Island, NY. 🗓️March, 26, 2026 🕧 6:30pm / More info: https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/events @rws2025.bsky.social

DIGITAL INITIATION RITES by Vita Peacock is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. 🔗Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784453/digital-initiation-rites/#bookTabs=1

THE HUMAN EDGE shows that the challenge we face is no longer about using AI—it is about leading AI with clarity, discernment, and a commitment to human agency, as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows. #AI #Tech Order this book here: https://ow.ly/j5sp50XJsix

Ready for a fantastic deep dive into archives of punk-related ephemera, rare flyers, photos, & fanzines? Great news - @cornellupress.bsky.social has The Book for you. Check out the origin story here: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... Then, get your copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Ciampi Lecture: “Resilient Failure? Regulating Human Rights in Global Supply Chains”. Sarosh Kuruvilla (Cornell University) reflects on 25 years of efforts to enforce labour standards in global supply chains. March 23, 5 PM | Palazzo Strozzi (or Teams) @cornellupress.bsky.social

BEYOND THE ELITE, edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, focuses on the everyday social #history of Jews in #medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. #JewishStudies Order this book here: https://ow.ly/8ack50XJs2p

Today's featured title: "Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200," by Scott G. Bruce, Cornell University Press, 2026 @xuthal.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Join Robert W. Snyder to talk about his book most recent book WHEN THE CITY STOPPED at the Historic Richmond Town, in Staten Island, NY. 🗓️3/26/26 / 🕧 6:30pm / More info: www.historicrichmondtown.org/events @rws2025.bsky.social

In ATOMIC BILL, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. 🔗 Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Fun fact: my dissertation was called "Wars of Choice" (became Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions @cornellupress.bsky.social). Tl;dr: they rarely go well. 1/ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

ALWAYS UNDER SIEGE presents a singular testament of resilience, despair, and stubborn creative intellect, as Irina Paperno shows what it means to live and to think in a state of siege. #History #Totalitarianism Learn more here: https://ow.ly/A6wr50XJs72

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935." More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

ICYMI #SkyStorians - A great focus on Joseph Kellner's great "Spirit of Socialism" is in @lrb.co.uk: Apocalypse Forgotten, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... More on the book and praise and all the important things at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I’m excited that *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) received the Honor Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book from the Texas Institute of Letters! 📚

Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor eds. Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces - @cornellupress.bsky.social, July 2026 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today is Cornell Giving Day. Every gift makes a difference and supports the idea that research matters. 🔗Learn more: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/cornell-university-press

On Cornell Giving Day help us be a bridge to the world and do the greatest good through sharing important research. 🔗More info: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/cornell-university-press

In SERVANTS OF GOD, SLAVES OF THE CHURCH, Lisa Kaaren Bailey uncovers the surprising intimacy between sacred devotion and coerced labor in early medieval #Europe. #Medieval #History #Religion Learn more here: https://ow.ly/TST550XJrYZ

ICYMI: Adelina Stefan's fantastic "Vacationing in Dictatorships" has won the Society for Romanian Studies Book Prize! More info and praise on her award-winning book in the Histories and Cultures of Tourism series is at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Your gift on Giving Day can help Cornell University ensure research matters and do the greatest good. 🔗 More info: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/co...

As the Cold War wound down in the late '80s, what would replace anticommunism as the governing logic of US foreign policy was far from settled. Our book of the week traces how new threats converged into the concept of "rogue states." By Matthew Frakes on @cornellupress.bsky.social buff.ly/tYuANYV

Join Wah Guan Lim, author of DENATIONALIZING IDENTITIES for a talk on The Transnational Impact on Identity Formation in Theatre Across the Chinese-Speaking World. 🗓️ March 10, 2026 🔗Info: https://ow.ly/jSLC50Yl2XH

Gavin Healy, A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

With a foreword by Russell Shorto, FIRE AND FREEDOM, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander and Robert Chiles, shows that events off the battlefield were just as meaningful as the fighting itself. #EarlyAmerica #History Order this book here: https://ow.ly/LlsF50XJsgY

LYRIC POETRY AS STATE CRITICISM IN MODERN JAPAN explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship, as Marianne Tarcov shows how lyric form enabled poets to veil their critique in plain sight. #Poetry Learn more here: https://ow.ly/GLi250XJscG

Monday, 3/9, @ronajohnson.bsky.social joins the CPH to discuss his new book, Entangled Alliances @cornellupress.bsky.social

The author copies of the paperback of my book just arrived! Available now @cornellupress.bsky.social and others: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Behold, #SkyStorians, the fantastic cover for the fantastic upcoming addition to the @cornellupress.bsky.social Histories and Cultures of Tourism series - "A Guide to Mao's China" by the fantastic Gavin Healy. Intrigued? Great news! You can preorder here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

CRITICAL FAILURES revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of #Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. Miyabi Goto argues that this gap between theory and practice—hihyō's failure—opened unexpected pathways for what critical reading could be. Learn more here:https://ow.ly/oALs50XJs8m

ALWAYS UNDER SIEGE presents a singular testament of resilience, despair, and stubborn creative intellect, as Irina Paperno shows what it means to live and to think in a state of siege. #History #Totalitarianism Learn more here: https://ow.ly/A6wr50XJs72

We are endlessly grateful to our fantastic editor @bethanywasik.bsky.social as well as the rest of the team at @cornellupress.bsky.social 💓 We are so proud of the whole volume, including contributions from Cedric Cotter, @mariacullen.bsky.social, Lewis Defrates, Bronwen Everill...

BEYOND THE ELITE, edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, focuses on the everyday social #history of Jews in #medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. #JewishStudies Order this book here: https://ow.ly/8ack50XJs2p