Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.
We need historians because the past is never just the past.
Every policy debate, public conversation, and cultural shift is shaped by what came before. Historians help us understand context, trace change over time, and recognize what’s at stake.
#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️
Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues! New at the blog: Learn more about KSU Press’s ongoing collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center, including links to interviews, readings, and more.
This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.
"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...
It may be a grey, coffee-desperate Monday morning, but I've already read two proposals today that have me *excited.* Some days I'm struck by how lucky I am to work in this profession, to get such early access to the brilliance of others' writing.
Has working at the MERL changed how you view England's history? Or its present?
"The essence of editing is ethics; it’s the act of caring for the expression of the thoughts of another as if they were your own."
Five rows of colorful books on a conference table, face up.
KSUP is pleased to welcome the @aupresses.bsky.social Book, Jacket, & Journal Show! Congrats to all of our colleagues on the publication of beautiful books that push design in innovative directions. Not pictured: all the books that KSUP staff have swiped and moved to the top of their TBR lists . . .
I'm in the middle of this book right now and, friends, it is SO GOOD. The writing is exquisite in the best need-to-read-passages-aloud-to-my-partner-because-I'm-bursting-to-share-it kind of way.
“Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life"
- Pope Leo XIV
time.com/7380294/pope...
Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)
Wow.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
This looks like it'll be excellent! Publishing in a series can be a great option, from the built-in credibility to getting to work with highly knowledgeable series editors in your field.
are rotisserie chickens the new avocado toast?
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
I swear every dev team for Microsoft products was like, "let's make it have *almost* what users need but not quite, leaving out just enough critical functionality that they'll have to find other tools. And let's make it so they don't realize what's missing until they've sunk a few hours in lolz"
February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion we’re pleased to highlight our book series American Abolitionism and Antislavery, which presents the best scholarship on antislavery activism and abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States.
Same goes for humanities scholars! Editors love quick responses, even "no," as much as we love suggestions!
My kids now recognize the smell of water treatment facilities thanks to NEORSD's Clean Water Festival tour <3
Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Been thinking about our publishing friends in the Twin Cities, proud to be in community with presses doing this kind of work and sending lots of support www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...
I talked to the brilliant @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about the sentence he has been repeating for months, "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win." We discussed anti-Trump organizing and the important of sharing resistance successes. newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Kent State’s books and authors kicked off the new year with attention in Cleveland Scene, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Books Network, and more. See all the latest in our January roundup.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
sources say your mom had to make a call on the land line, so the modem had to be disconnected
Great job, Brazil.
"Bolsonaro . . . is unlikely to appreciate the approved reading list. It includes Brazilian works on Indigenous rights, racism, the environment and the violence meted out by the country’s 1964-85 dictatorship – a regime Bolsonaro openly supported."
“Future prospects for greater Pittsburgh are decoupled from the prospects of the steel industry, a reality... difficult to accept for a region identified for so long with the once monolithic industry.”
From BEYOND STEEL by @chrisbriem.bsky.social (@ksupress.bsky.social). pghrev.com/did-the-wolf...
NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 5, we look at how Trump’s pardons, political messaging and use of power reshaped the public story.
Text: rust belt studies 171 A Journal of Public and Emplaced Humanities Issue 1 | 2025 with a stylized image of a cityscape including towers, bridge, and water
Big news: @rustbeltlab.bsky.social has launched “Rust Belt Studies"! We're proud to see KSUP represented in the inaugural issue, which has @jlauck1941.bsky.social's essay from “Where East Meets (Mid)West,” plus a review of Deborah Fleming’s “Ghosts of an Old Forest.”
www.rustbeltstudies.org/journal
