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While you are at it, don't forget to check out @dawnd.bsky.social's 2023 post on developing, pitching, and publishing an edited collection, which inspired @emily-elliott.bsky.social's post today.

Nigerian publisher and scholar Nwachukwu Egbunike illustrates the need for a more inclusive and equitable global knowledge ecosystem and suggests ways to build one.

Journal of Aesthetic Education (2020) 54 (2). Red background with gray and white text.

March is National Reading Month! Check out this article from Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 54, No. 2: "Dewey, Foucault, and the Value of Horror: Transformative Learning through Reading Horror Fiction" by Lorraine K. C. Yeung. On @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader by Gloria Wekker. The cover has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title apears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title. The author's name is in the bottom right corner in orange with the editors' names in yellow below separated by a cream dotted line. Directly below is written "foreword by Angela Y. Davis" in light red in all caps.

"The Gloria Wekker Reader," edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/jhDDyXf

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March is Women's History Month, and we invite you to browse our publications on women's history and activism, including ALIVE IN THEIR GARDEN, SISTERLY NETWORKS, and SOUTHERN METHODIST WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

Click the link to browse books: floridapress.org/womens-histo...

@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social has presented the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust category) to People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This award “represents the best of Jewish literature.”
#NationalJewishBookAwards

Book cover of The House on Rondo by Debra J Stone. Mixed-media collage and painted view of persons on street in front of gabled house. Title in bold yellow letters above, author in bold white below.

Book cover of My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women's Movement by Pernille Ipsen. At center, atop a paperclipped stack of deckle-edged photographs, is one of a child surrounded by many women, sitting on steps. Title above, author below.

Book cover of Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home, compiled by Linda S. Svitak, Christin Jaye Eaton, and Lee Svitak Dean. Plated spices, peppers, and peppercorns shown beside geometric shapes and woven textiles. Title in lower left against a blue background.

Three wonderful Foreword INDIES finalists!

House on Rondo (Juvenile Fiction)
My Seven Mothers (Autobiography & Memoir)
Kitchens of Hope (Cooking)

www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

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Meet Jessica, our Spring25 acquisitions intern! She makes a good point about the opportunity here at the Press to learn just how close local history and stories are to our community. If you would like to support USC students, please consider making a donation at: give4garnet.sc.edu/givin.../104...

Cover: The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73, by Angela C. Tozer. Photo: The title, in red, is superimposed over a background of scuffed linen-textured paper. At the bottom, the remains of tape are visible. The final N of Nation appears to drip, evoking blood. Beside the cover, text congratulations the author for being named a finalist for the 2025 Wilson Book Prize.

Hooray! “The Debt of a Nation” by Angela C. Tozer is a finalist for the 2025 Wilson Book Prize. Thank you to the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, and congratulations to all the finalists! 🎉

wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2025-wi...

The Indigenous Roots of Modern Feminism By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Long before there was ever a concept called “feminism” in the US settler State, there was the knowledge of women’s power in Indigenous communities. The imposition of foreig…

Less well recognized today is the way early women’s rights activists, namely the women of “first-wave feminism,” were shaped by American Indians. #WomensHistoryMonth @dinagw.bsky.social

YouTube video by American Historical Association Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public

Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed?

Watch “Op-Ed Writing for Historians" with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @jelaniya.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social, @franhirsch.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & moderator @lmansley.bsky.social. #AHAOnline 🗃️

Please join us in congratulating these recent OU Press authors as they have been selected as finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book Awards! View the complete list here ➡️ www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Short Stories (Adult Fiction) These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Short Stories finalists of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awar...

Congratulations to Anthony Bukoski, whose story collection THE THIEF OF WORDS is a finalist in the short story category of Foreword Reviews's 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Awards!

www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

Congrats to THE TOUGALOO NINE: THE JACKSON LIBRARY SIT-IN AT THE CROSSROADS OF CIVIL WAR AND CIVIL RIGHTS--winner of Mississippi Historical Society's Book of the Year Award!

📚 Add this book and all the fantastic UPM Mississippi history titles to your #TBR pile.

Step inside the University Press of Kansas conference room and see the @aupresses.bsky.social Book Jacket and Journal Show! The show is open to the public M-F, 9:00AM - 5:00PM through March 13th.

#bookdesign #bookcovers #bookjackets #aupresses #upkansas

Graphic of Shane Denson's book "Bride of Frankenstein"

Heading to the theater this weekend to see The Bride! from Maggie Gyllenhaal? Check out Shane Denson's minute-by-minute examination of the original Bride of Frankenstein film to get the full viewing experience. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Promotional graphic announcing “Winner!” for The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema by Rick Warner. The book cover appears on the right, showing a close-up of a woman’s face lit by blurred city lights at night. Text notes it as a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Bottom banner offers 20% off with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu alongside the Columbia University Press logo.

We are pleased to announce that Rick Warner’s THE REBIRTH OF SUSPENSE has been named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. buff.ly/CGprm40 @choicereviews.bsky.social

2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The finalists of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

Congratulations to authors Wendy Xu, Ryan Patrick Murphy, and Betsy Small on being named finalists for the 2025 Foreword INDIES in the Essays, History, and Political and Social Sciences categories! Check out the full list of finalists:

Notre Dame Press Welcomes New Marketing and Sales Coordinator - University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame Press is thrilled to announce that Brandi M. Borkosky has joined the Press, effective March 2nd, in the position of Marketing

Notre Dame Press Welcomes New Marketing and Sales Coordinator #NDPBlog

Our free ebook for March is *Back to the Breast* by Jessica Martucci, a groundbreaking chronicle of the breastfeeding movement that provides a welcome and vital account of what it has meant, and what it means today, to breastfeed in modern America. Download it here: buff.ly/rIfRWED

The Future Past of U.S. Foreign Policy: Nationalism and The Strategic… A potential U.S. attempt to acquire Greenland would represent more than a territorial dispute: it signals a revival of nationalistic, zero-sum thinking in American foreign policy. Drawing on…

Author @giuspapa.bsky.social wrote about US foreign policy and #Greenland:

"applying 19th-century expansionist logic to today’s geopolitical environment misreads Europe’s material capabilities and risks undermining U.S. strategy at a time of intensifying competition with China and Russia"

In memoriam William E. Connolly 1938-2026 A career-spanning reading list, including “Symposium: William Connolly at 80” from Theory & Event in 2019 All articles free @ Project MUSE thru 31 March press.jhu.edu/newsroom/memoriam-william-e-connolly Illustrated with a photo of William E. Connolly from his JHU faculty page and cover art from Theory & Event and Social Research

Political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture

To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE

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It's #BCorpMonth! 💚🪴

To celebrate what it means to be a B Corp, we're offering 50% off our #SustainableBusiness books until the end of the month.

🌟Use code SMC01 at checkout! 🌟

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Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and their subsequent impact on the Middle East, we recognise that there is a need for access to informed, research-driven perspectives to give context to this conflict.

Read our key OA books on manchesterhive here: tinyurl.com/igme-free

Display case featuring books from SIU Press for Women's History Month

Check out the SIU Press #WomensHistoryMonth book display on the first floor of #MorrisLibrary! siupress.com

Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31.
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Gather at the Table | Remembering Sharon Leslie Morgan January 30, 1951 – February 24, 2026 My beloved friend and Gather at the Table co-author, Sharon Leslie Morgan, has joined the ancestors. I was not expecting this. We talk regularly. We last spoke on…

Sharon Leslie Morgan was the founder of Our Black Ancestry. Her expertise in genealogy helped many search for their own family history and connections. She was a powerhouse, and we will miss her dearly. 🕊️

We're so excited to share that DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA (@prairie-schooner.bsky.social) by Gbenga Adesina is a finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards! 🎉 bit.ly/4r4ijDF

Thank you @mngssbooks.bsky.social for highlighting one of our favorite books, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography"!

Explore more about the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder and other inspiring women in history at MNG's #WomensHistoryMonth reading list, as well as sdhspress.com/books!

As @publishersassoc.bsky.social releases its report, Mandy Hill shares her thoughts on how publishers license content for #AI use.