cumberland strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1891

cumberland strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1891

Beautiful initial 'S' held together by some skillful stitching

BnF MS Latin 17002; Vitae sanctorum, pars II; 11th century; Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Moissac; f.109r

Diana Gillooly

@dianagillooly.bsky.social, PUP’s Executive Editor for Mathematics, is one of three university press editors to talk to @insidehighered.com about book proposals, acquisitions, & launches, & what would be lost if academic presses ceased to exist.

Read more: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Constructive version! Most books published by US-based university presses feature chapters in the 8-12,000 word range, including all citation apparatus. The more crossover-y the book, the shorter the chapters. Readers really struggle with anything longer than 15K.

Is the Huntington your must go to archive?

In recognition of Martin Ridge's long service to both the Western History Association and The Huntington Library, this $3,500, one-month research fellowship at The Huntington Library has been established in his honor.

Learn more at westernhistory.org

A little birdy told me that Wayne State University is hiring a new Director for their Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies--looks like a great job! www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you. The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you...

The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

The APS is seeking applicants for a four-month fellowship this summer to research their garden and botanical collections!

Applications due by April 19, fellow will ideally start in May.

More info here:

Title page of the book, reading 'Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae domini Frisiae'

Sketch of a woman in early modern attire carrying a child

Sketch of a woman carrying stuff on her head, on the right a person on a horse.

Sketch of a man with his arms crossed looking a woman who has her back to the viewer.

Blank pages invite use.

In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures.

#bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜

Book cover shows an alleyway in a Rio favela, the black and white photo has been given a bluish tinge; my name is upper left, the title of the book "Poverty of the Imagination" is at lower left and at right, in reddish text is the subtitle "The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America"

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Six copies of "Renaissance Studies" set out in the shape of a fan.

The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja.

rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Thinking Through and Testing Your Argument. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. This free workshop will be structured around guided writing exercises to help you better develop a scholarly argument. One exercise will help with thinking through what motivates your argument, while ...

As scholars, we've been writing arguments since (probably before) college. But it can be hard to come up with an argument or tell if it's a strong one. Let's make it easier! Come to my FREE argument workshop on April 8 from 3 to 4:30 Eastern.

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#AcWri #AcademicSky

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Essential reading for all who seek context for the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and responses throughout the Middle East, from our global community of member presses and their expert authors. https://bit.ly/4uPtvaf #ReadUP

I’m in Kansas City for #ASEH2026. I co-edit a history of technology book series for Johns Hopkins University Press. We are always looking for titles that intersect with environmental history. If you have a project, let me know and let’s talk 🙂 #envhist

Thanks to a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, SHEAR is launching the SHEAR Civics Exchange initiative and seeking an outreach coordinator to serve as the point person for the project. Applications are due April 24. More information here: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/23/s....

InterConnections: The Global 20th Century InterConnections: The Global 20th Century is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. We also publish cutting-edge histories of the US and t...

If you are working on a book manuscript in international history during any part or the long 20th century, consider the Interconnections book series🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social - we're here for you! @juliairwin.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social uncpress.org/series/inter...

IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary The Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary is offered with the generous support of the estate of Ian Roy.

The bursary of £1,700 will be awarded to a mid-career historian working on 17th-century British history who wishes to make use of the IHR’s library collections. #Skystorians

Relatively little is known of the early career of the Suffolk painter Henry Bright. A pupil of John Sell Cotman, and a friend of Turner, he was a master at depicting the effects of sunlight and shadow. This pastel is 1850-ish.

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Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now!
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#medievalsky #earlymodern

Defining Color - Longreads "A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."

"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book, @korystamper.bsky.social details how her work @Merriam-Webster.com launched her "love affair with color."

longreads.com/2026/03/19/c...

Please join us in congratulating Beth Lew-Williams, whose book John Doe Chinaman has won the 2026 Bancroft Prize—one of the most prestigious awards in the field of American history.

Could this be phonetic spelling for phaeton?

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
www.science.org/content/arti...

We're hiring! Now seeking a Production Coordinator. www.myworkday.com/psu/d/inst/15$158872/992...

Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.

[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern

The Ruthless Benevolence of a Great Editor Ann Godoff, who died this week, cared passionately about her writers—and much less about her own ego.

"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."

Must-read for academic authors (see replies!).

‘A reporter in every county:’ WSU, Report for America launch groundbreaking program to confront Washington’s local news crisis Washington’s land-grant university and the nation’s leading nonprofit program for placing journalists in local newsrooms will work to ensure that every county in the state has reliable, local reportin...

A bit of hopeful news...

Washington State University’s Murrow College of Communication and Report for America have launched a partnership to cover all of Washington’s 39 counties by 2029, aiming to fill reporting gaps as newsrooms shrink. The first cohort of up to 13 journalists begins in 2027.

The Central Fire of the Iroquois A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the HaudenosauneeThe people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York St...

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...