Congratulations to Richard Kopley, whose "Edgar Allan Poe: A Life" has been awarded the Patrick F. Quinn Award for an outstanding monograph by the Poe Studies Association!
www.poestudiesassociation.org/awards
Congratulations to Richard Kopley, whose "Edgar Allan Poe: A Life" has been awarded the Patrick F. Quinn Award for an outstanding monograph by the Poe Studies Association!
www.poestudiesassociation.org/awards
"Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions," by Kilian Harrer, University of Virginia Press, 2025
Today's featured title:
"Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions," by Kilian Harrer, University of Virginia Press, 2025
@uvapress.bsky.social
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10138/
youtu.be/IOmesiTLmbg?...
Check out this A is for Architecture podcast discussion with Andreea Mihalache, author of "Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg"
Read an interview with the editors! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
17.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
Read an interview with the translator! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
13.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New review of "They Run with Surprising Swiftness" by Peter Radford.
Meticulously researched and accessibly and engagingly written, this is a highly valuable contribution to the history of women’s sport idrottsforum.org/taykat_radfo...
Happy #pubday to "The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994" by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated by Conor Bracken!
A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10189/
#booksky #readUP
Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Michael Stauch and author Peter D. Blackmer! Blackmer discusses his new book "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers."
newbooksnetwork.com/unleashing-b...
Finally got to this! Congrats, @uvapress.bsky.social!
29.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
One of Frazier's main sources is Philip Levy's YARD BIRDS: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF AMERICA'S URBAN CHICKENS, a panoramic and wildly entertaining look at the chicken's rise from marginal farm animal to top of the roost.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5315/
Some fascinating thoughts here by Ian Frazier in @nybooks.com about the 26 billion chickens now inhabiting the earth, including how they became a staple of the human diet only over the last 80 years or so and what our endless appetite means for the species.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
March 5th at 12pm EST!
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Read an interview with coeditor Katherine Ridgway: www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
21.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #pubday to "The Buried Cause: Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone," edited by Katherine Ridgway, Christina Keyser Vida, and Elizabeth Moore!
"An ingenious book."
- Ed Ayers
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10161/
#booksky #skystorians
Read an interview with the author! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
20.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #pubday to "Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland" by @ecocritickate.bsky.social!
The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/
#readUP #booksky
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." – Edgar Allan Poe #botd
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Richard Kopley about his book Edgar Allan Poe: A Life, a comprehensive critical biography of Poe's life and works. #books @uvapress.bsky.social
"The New Dominion: The Twentieth-Century Elections That Shaped Modern Virginia," edited by John G. Milliken and Mark J. Rozell
#readUP!
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5812/
How shifts in N. Va. and other populous areas turned Virginia more Democratic | ARLnow.com www.arlnow.com/2026/01/13/h...
16.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Destined to become a classic."
—Maurizio Valsania, University of Torino, Italy
"Not only fundamentally alters our understanding of how gender worked in the new nation, but also how the new nation completely rested on gender definitions and conceptions."
—Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College
Now available! "The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation," edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover.
An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of gender
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10144/
Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize
Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000!
For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.
"Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" by Matthew Mason
#readUP!
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/
Now available! "Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation," edited by Meggan F. Cashwell, Randall N. Flaherty, and Loren S. Moulds.
Tracing the material and intellectual development of one of the nation’s leading law schools
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10146/
Read an interview with the author: www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
13.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Now available! "Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic" by George D. Oberle III.
Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nation
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10158/
#Booksky #skystorians
