Julia Boss

Colorful printed scene of figures in line to vote

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

Hisham Matar, My Friends

A Programme of Absolute Disorder - Pluto Press A call to end the Western museum

"A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum" by Françoise Vergès explores the Louvre as a product of colonialism and Europe’s self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.

Foreword: Paul Gilroy
Transl.: Melissa Thackway

@plutopress.bsky.social 40% off until Oct 28th

Book cover for Madeline Schwartzman’s book Alive, showing a sculpture of a transparent circuit-filled bird atop someone’s hand.

Was excited yesterday to go to the launch event for my former architecture professor Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life. It shares some provocative projects and ideas!
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...

Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
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We are looking for a new book review editor at H-Early-America if anyone is interested.

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An American Problem: The States, the Courts, and Voting Rights Michael G. Miller Kevin T. Morris

Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction 1 I The Voting Rights Act: A Legal and Political History 15 1 Time of Justice: The Long Rise of the VRA 17 2 More Elaborate Measures: The VRA Ascends 57 3 Vestiges of Discrimination: How Was Preclearance Utilized? 89 4 Chops on the Log: The End of Preclearance 117 II Voting Rights Since Shelby County 161 5 Similar Maneuvers: The Turnout Gap 163 6 Unlawful Dilution: Districting 193 7 First Generation Barriers: Voter List Maintenance 231 8 Almost Surgical Precision: Voter ID 265 9 Purity of the Ballot Box: Mail Voting 303 The Soul of America: Epilogue 335 End Notes 357 Bibliography 395

It's official: An American Problem (our book on the Voting Rights Act, preclearance, and the effects of Shelby County) will be coming out next year with Princeton University Press. As the VRA faces continued threats, we're hopeful it will offer insight into why the it's is so vitally important

2024 Horowitz Book Prize Winner Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas published...

*Plantation Goods* has had an incredible run, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am absolutely thrilled that the book is being honored with the Horowitz Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for scholarship on decorative arts, design history, or material culture. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination

I’m sure you’ve read @alondra.bsky.social’s book on this but in case not, it’s fantastic

The Steve Kemp Writer's Residency The Kemp Residency provides an annual opportunity for one writer to spend six weeks in the Smokies in a retreat-like setting.

Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks
smokieslife.org/the-steve-ke...

Defending the Arctic Refuge Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Consid...

With the Arctic Refuge back in the news (yes, Trump is trying once again to turn it into an oil field), maybe it’s a good time to check out Defending the Arctic Refuge. @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist 📗❄️🦌

Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

Thinking bout this right now for no real reason—

“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs

jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’

Enchanting Imposters - JSTOR Daily Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.

This is just fantastic. Sara Ivry (@ivrysarajstordaily.bsky.social) interviews Earle Havens on the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery ( #bookhistory, #skystorians): daily.jstor.org/enchanting-i...

Image of man praying in silhouette with American flag as prayer shawl

David Hammons, Pray for America, 1969 #NoKings www.moma.org/collection/w...

Two tons of bronze ingots, from melting down Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee, are now on display in the LA Museum of Modern Art “Monuments” exhibit. The @jsaahccville.bsky.social Swords Into Plowshares project will select an artist to use the bronze to create public art for Charlottesville

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Oregon

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, this year's Distinguished Benjamin Franklin Lecturer, will deliver her first lecture, "On Seeing and Un-Seeing Slavery, or Learning to Reckon with the Black Spots in Early Modern Art," on Oct. 20 at Penn Carey Law. Register to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-benja...

📚NEW PUBLICATION📚

Tod A. Marder, “Bernini’s Architectural Drawings – An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931” (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 38)

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/roemi...

Very ornate library with beautiful glass ceiling

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Camille Souter painted on the edge of the establishment and yet was credited by many as being one of the greatest Irish painters of the 20thC - this still-life (1976) is typical of her sure sense of form and spontaneity.

Big week for our #visualculture list! IN THE HANDS OF DEVOTEES delves into the relationship that Black and Indigenous communities in colonial Lima had with Christian devotional imagery, which was ultimately one of creation. ❤️

utpress.utexas.edu/9...