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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...
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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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Book covers are arranged in slanted rows against a white background.
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...
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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...
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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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:
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Notre Dame Press Welcomes New Marketing and Sales Coordinator #NDPBlog
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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
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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
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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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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. 🕊️
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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
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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.
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It’s been 3 years since we lost Judy Heumann on this day. 💔
Despite all she’d faced, she never lost faith—not in herself or her fellow activists, and not in our democratic government.
In an op-ed for @financialtimes.com, author Peter Kurie (IN CHOCOLATE WE TRUST) explores the parallels between OpenAI and the Hershey company (yes, as in the chocolate!) https://on.ft.com/4rTte4u
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