A book cover with three colored stripes - blue at top, white at middle with the book title in black text (The People's Revolution of 1789), and red at bottom.

Team #SkyStorians! Great praise has arrived for @micahalpaugh.bsky.social's "ambitious history" that is "The People’s Revolution of 1789," noting "his attention to policing in the Revolution’s early years is a noteworthy innovation."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

A newspaper article in the Belfast telegraph, titled ‘Before the 1960s, this idea of comingohtdid not really exist in Northern Ireland’.

If you’re based in Northern Ireland, I have a piece about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk today!

Libraries are pretty great.

My week already will be better because of this little guy. My despair has evaporated. Richie, I'm gonna give it my best right there with you.

Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation

Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I Know Where I'm Going
High and Low
Only Angels Have Wings

A frosted chocolate Bundt cake.

A cake with white frosting and rainbow sprinkles.

An excellent question! Covering all the bases with German Chocolate and Funfetti...

A stemless cocktail glass half-filled with amber liquid on a bartop.

It's been a year of a week and it's finally Friday and I did the thing at the very bottom of my inbox and then baked two cakes and now definitely deserve a Mezcaletti and we made it to the weekend, team, and I hope you have cake too because you deserve it. Cheers.

Today is going to awesome. Best day ever. Ready for it. Let's publish all the books. Bring on the emails. Bring on the Zooms. A great day to start with double strength coffee.

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

I use too many exclamation marks in emails. Please send help.

A view upwards of a tree full of cherry blossoms, with blue sky and sunshine above them.

Pro: Spring has finally arrived.
Con: My eyes are on fire and my head is going to explode.

Find out more from AHR here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

And then, find out more from @cornellupress.bsky.social here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776649/the-politics-of-love/

I'll wait.

A book cover with red and orange flames behind the title, The Politics of Love.

#SkyStorians! Praise from AHR for Natalie Cornett's award-winning book! "The Politics of Love: Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland" describes "the beginnings of the Polish emancipation movement and starkly shows how different it was from its late nineteenth-century successor." Intrigued?

Let's be friends.

We're all doing the best that we can. Most of us. There are a few people that could be doing a tiny bit better. But besides them, the rest of us are doing the best that we can.

792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sp… In this episode, Jacke talks to author Eileen Sperry about her book This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric , which examines how the lyric poetry o…

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Eileen Sperry about her book This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric, which examines how the lyric poetry of Shakespeare and his contemporaries shaped our understanding of what it means to be mortal. #books @cornellupress.bsky.social

The Scott is a wonderful combination of Scotch, Drambuie, dry vermouth, and that's it. That's the wonderful all of it.

A coupe cocktail glass half-filled with golden liquid on a bartop.

Friday itinerary to forget the week:
The Scott
Couch
Snacks
Movies
Probably an encore Scott.
Probably encore snacks.

Cheers, team.
We did it again. Go us.

Investigates the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration.

📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/U1cCh0B

@basees.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Reviewer 1 is the real troublemaker.

Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus by Caitlin C. Gillespie | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals,...

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/luYG50Ybpqv

Ok, I printed all the MS I have to read. This is good progress.

Author gives a talk at a bookstore in front of the stacks, with speaker photos. Text reads: Marketing Your First Book, April 13, 1-2 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

Marketing Your First Book, the sixth and final webinar in our First Book Publishing Series, is coming up April 13! 📚 Learn how to build your author platform, leverage online and offline marketing tactics, and create lasting networks.

ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

#ScholarlyPublishing

A panel from a 1991 Peanuts comic strip showing Peppermint Patty at her school desk. She is saying, “Unprepared, unorganized, unsettled, uncertain, unsure, but awake!”

Good morning, friends!

A Most Quiet Murder provides a new view of nineteenth-century France, where the law and public authorities intervened in the lives of the working classes and their children during moments of crisis.

Browse more titles⬇️
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@cornellpress.cornell.edu

Team #MedievalSky, I'm a @kzooicms.bsky.social first-timer.
- I'm excited to meet @cornellupress.bsky.social authors and book enthusiasts and everyone in between.
- I'm excited to hear about book projects and shout about our fantastic #Medieval books in the pipeline.
- I'm nervous about the dragons.

Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection...

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/y9K850YbppO

Rogue States by Matthew A. Frakes | Paperback | Cornell University Press In Rogue States, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. Throughout a series of crises from...

In ROGUE STATES, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. #USHistory #NationalSecurity

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/qCmu50XJrV8

Ok. Hear me out. Libraries are pretty great.