Laura Davulis

Anyone located near the Huntington Library in Southern California interested in a pd research project? 150 hrs for $5500 USD stipend to double check a periodical to include in the Curran Index.

Due: 8/20
Pls fwd!
#job #periodicals #victorian #bookhistory

ICYMI:

@oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for an Editorial, Design, and Production manager.

We have some great projects in the pipeline. Come make books with us!

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2025 so far has overall been pretty terrible to me, but there are always moments of hope if you know where to look.

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

“Huh, violent propensities and given to silliness, same as all the other goose skulls.” - a goose phrenologist

Dropping my teen off at work shortly. This week they were scheduled for 23 hours, got sent home 2 hours early 2x this week as place was empty

Doesn't matter for them except slightly less thrifting

But this scenario will play hell with people w/ #Medicaid as work requirements are imposed.

It depends on the terms of the individual contract of course but the author is probably making about the same amount either way.

Bulk sales of books are common enough and often benign, but the only reasons to buy from a bookstore rather than direct from the publisher (who will sell it to you cheaper than a bookstore) are (a) you don’t know how the book business works or (b) you want to goose sales numbers for whatever reason.

LOVE a pickle plate (any cuisine/style.) LOVE.

I have not but it’s on my list!!!!

(Also pierogis are better than cake. That’s right, you heard me. Better. Than. Cake.)

I look forward to the intricate legal argument about how and why the sincerely held beliefs of a pierogi maker are somehow different from the sincerely held beliefs of a wedding cake baker

Skeletal Remains Found In Upended Tree; The Death Investigator… (Updated 11:30 p.m.) A homeless woman made a spooky Halloween’s eve discovery on the Upper Green: bones from a centuries-old human body unearthed by a…

Sometimes they try to come back www.newhavenindependent.org/article/skel...

If you’ve ever been to lovely and scenic New Haven, Connecticut, and wandered across the lovely and scenic New Haven Green, you should know that it is absolutely full of skeletons. (The gravestones were moved to the Grove St Cemetery but the bodies were not.)

Historian friends: tell me about your favorite research & writing tools.

As a bonus, would love to know where you learned how to use them & if you'd be interested in sharing your knowledge w/ others.

I “finished” writing my book last November. But I still had 50+ hours of work to do before it actually went to print. Here’s what that included:

1. Reading the final manuscript out loud to myself to catch any weird wording or sentences that needed to be clearer

2. Prepping the files for submission

"Drug Trafficking in America" in part because it has allowed me to truthfully say "I got an A in drug trafficking"

Pool with “Enoch Splash Library” backdrop.

I’m sure your city is perfectly fine or whatever, but does it have a banned books themed performance art amateur water ballet playing 8 shows over two weekends? No, not it does not.

Acosta to Resign as Labor Secretary Over Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal (Published 2019)

Alex Acosta, basically. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/u...

Did you know that in the Spring of 1970, there was a three-week siege by police and FBI of the Black Panthers HQ in downtown Baltimore on Gay St. over (checks notes) breakfast? It's true!

Good morning! My colleagues in our rights and permissions department are hiring an office assistant. Great first job for learning this side of the book business! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

Authors everywhere hoping

Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025

I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.

Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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Book titles on my shelf include: The Butchering Art, Mortal Remains, The Skull Collectors, The Knife Man, in the Shadow of Slavery, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, Stiff: The curious lives of Human Cadavers, All that Remains, and Masters of Health

My 11 year old son after looking over the titles of some of the books i brought to read while he’s in his math camp for two weeks, “Dad are you a historian or a murderer? It’s seriously hard to tell.”

*polite cough*

Flyer with discount code HSHEAR25

And not just books. WE’VE GOT A DISCOUNT CODE TOO.

Hopkins Press book display. Lots of books.

Good morning #SHEAR2025! WE’VE GOT BOOKS.

Google maps screenshot timonium MD

Recently learned that he’s buried down the street from this bagel shop I really like