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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
POV from the beautiful @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social :: thrilled to experience it for the first time for Migration and Place Histories: What Does Migration Mean for Places? 📚
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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A Territory in Conflict Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza By Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat. The urban and architectural history of Gaza’s cities and the varied perspectives and identities of the people who shaped them @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Not to be missed: this episode of @randywilburn.bsky.social 's podcast on the ever-inspiring Mal Goode. #blackhistorymonth iamnorthwestarkansas.com/captivate-po...
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Mal Goode: Breaking Barriers in Broadcast Journalism
About the Show: As we celebrate Black History Month, we take this opportunity to revisit the inspiring legacy of Mal Goode—the first Black network new...
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
COVER REVEAL! We’re thrilled to announce: Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital by Amber N. Wiley (on sale 3/25/25 Details/pre-order here: upittpress.org/books/978082...
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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This beauty from @upittpress.bsky.social arrived today. Happy I could help a little to get this terrific book published. #HistNatHist #museums #collections #papertechnologies Anne Greenwood MacKinney: Nature on Paper. Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850. upittpress.org/books/978082... 📜🗃️
Image of a book: Anne Greenwood MacKinney:
Nature on Paper. Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850.
It’s a drawing of a bird and handwritten notes.
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Anna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I received the *best* news just before the holidays: my book is now in copyediting! Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century will appear in the Fall of 2025 with @upittpress.bsky.social. To celebrate, I bought myself something I've had my eye on for ages...
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Terrific interview with Amy Kaminski, author of The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo now available on GovFresh.com! govfresh.com/dm/amy-paige...
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Direct messaging: Amy Paige Kaminski
Author, catalyst, & champion for public engagement with space, science, & technology
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"The first scholar with a deep knowledge of Carpatho-Rusyn culture to write about Warhol, Rusinko’s engaging book will no doubt prove to be the definitive study of Julia’s profound influence on her son." Terrific review of Andy Warhol's Mother @hyperallergic.com! hyperallergic.com/985368/julia...
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Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right
The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza’s cities and the varied perspectives and identities of the people who shaped them. A Territory in Conflict is out next month upittpress.org/books/978082...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hearty congrats to @kendalljoy.bsky.social, acquiring editor Josh Shanholtzer, and our CLC series editors Aja Y. Martinez and Stacey Waite. 🙌 upittpress.org/series/compo...
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Composition, Literacy, and Culture - University of Pittsburgh Press
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"A blueprint for what it means to treat other people right." — @randywilburn.bsky.social on Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer, by Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck. @upittpress.bsky.social
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Mal Goode Reporting - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822967453|The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer|Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead ...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Today, @aupresses.bsky.social joins in repudiating the recent presidential Executive Order that grossly mischaracterizes current primary and secondary history education across the US as 'radical indoctrination.'"👇
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AUPresses Responds to the 1776 Report - Association of University Presses
We note that this report is plagued by procedural deficiencies that would render it unpublishable as a serious work of scholarship.
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our spring catalog has dropped! upittpress.org/spring-summe...
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Spring & Summer 2025 Catalog - University of Pittsburgh Press
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Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And it is now possible to pre-order from @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...!
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Cover Reveal! We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya by Fiona Williamson. Imperial Weather joins our Intersections series on 2/18/25. Details and preorders here: upittpress.org/books/978082...
Book cover for Imperial Weather featuring hand-drawn artwork of a sandy beach with four tall ships in the distance. It is raining.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I heard we're talking about the politicization of science today? It just happens to be my book's 2nd birthday! 🎂🎂 The Globalization of Wheat is about how a controversial scientific concept, "wide adaptation," became the basis of today's international agricultural development. #histsci #envhist
The cover image from the book The Globalization of Wheat by Marci R. Baranski. There is a stylized graphic of a hand holding a globe and wheat stalk.
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Another stellar addition to CPBE.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Today on our site we are highlighting @mattholmes.bsky.social's new book, The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2024) niche-canada.org/2024/11/26/n... #envhist #histsci #book
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New Book - The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics
For environmental historians, The Graft Hybrid offers new insights into what it meant to think about the “environment” in the twentieth century and how we now perceive and define biotechnology.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Nico Slate is one of History Today’s Best Books of 2024! www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Forthcoming in our Culture, Politics, and Built Environment series, ed. Dianne Harris.
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We’re a bit tucked away near Studio 4, but I hope you’ll stop by to check out the sale @upittpress.bsky.social for #PSA24. 30% off + free domestic shipping through 12/2. Use code 29PSA24. upittpress.org/psa-2024-con...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I was sorry to miss #hss24 this year, but please take advantage of our conference sale @upittpress.bsky.social . Through Dec. 10th, take 30% off select titles + free domestic shipping with code 29HSS24. @historyscience.bsky.social upittpress.org/hss-2024-con...
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HSS 2024 Conference Sale - University of Pittsburgh Press
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I finally deactivated my X account—looking forward to connecting with @upittpress.bsky.social authors, past, present, and future, on @bsky.app.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta by Matthew Mullane, an incisive study of a towering figure in modern Japanese architecture. World Observation will be published on April 22, 2025.
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
we're hiring a Design & Production Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh Press (@upittpress.bsky.social)! help us make beautiful books! #publishing
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Design %26 Production Assistant
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The friendly faces of @upittpress.bsky.social! If I’ve missed anyone, please let me know and I’ll add! go.bsky.app/65RLckE
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 by @edwinrose.bsky.social • Reading the World joins our Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series on 3/18/25.
Book cover for Reading the World featuring a drawing of a flower with pink petals and green leaves.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We’re honored to announce the forthcoming publication of A TERRITORY IN CONFLICT: ERAS OF DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN ARCHITECTURE IN GAZA by Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, a ground-breaking study of urban and architectural history in Gaza. On sale 3/18/25
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
✨ Stumbled across a familiar book while out & about 👀✨@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
New name, new email, same great editor 👌✨. . . amcallister@upress.pitt.edu upittpress.org/staff/abby-m...
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Abby McAllister - University of Pittsburgh Press
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
Our Fall ‘24 catalog is live! Poetry, history of science, architecture, Latin American Studies. Take a look, there’s something for everyone. upittpress.org/fall-winter-...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
This is not a sale that you want to miss. 50% off sitewide!
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Giving a shout out to a few of our Pitt Press family: Editorial Director @abbyscollier.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor @umewmasa.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @andcleverness.bsky.social Managing Editor @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social & Publicity Manager @lesleyrains.bsky.social (me)
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
We have proofs on deck at #SAH2024 for an exciting new book forthcoming in our Histories of the Urban Environment series. The Lung Block: Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York, by Adrienne deNoyelles, is available for preorder, pub. date June 2024. upittpress.org/books/978082...
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The Lung Block - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822947868|Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York|Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Very happy to revisit this Q&A with @diannesharris.bsky.social, editor of our Culture, Politics, and Built Environment series, when we celebrated 10 years of publishing great books @upittpress.bsky.social. #SAH2024 upittpress.org/celebrating-...
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Celebrating Ten Years of the Culture, Politics, and Built Environment Series: A Conversation with Series Editor Dianne Harris - University of Pittsburgh Press
Books in the Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment series address the intersecting relationships between the built environment and a range of cultural forces, exploring the ways buildings, citi...
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Swing by the @upittpress.bsky.social booth at #SAH2024 for 30% off, & use promo code SAH24 on our website now through May 21st. Sale includes new & recent titles in our CPBE & HUE series & beyond. upittpress.org/sah-2024-con...
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SAH 2024 Conference Sale - University of Pittsburgh Press
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
A quick cappuccino check-in from Ohio. ☕️
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Rebecca Harrison of Pittsburgh's Old Flame Mending on fracking, repair work, and slow fashion.👇https://www.instagram.com/p/C2sc8NsuF4H/?igsh=czhkNmEwbHp2eHYz
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abbysmcallister.bsky.social @abbysmcallister.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
I can't think of a better first post than to congratulate my talented colleague @andcleverness.bsky.social as she embarks on this new journey to acquire books for the Press in environmental history/studies, food studies, and regional interest. Take a bow, my friend. upittpress.org/amy-sherman-...
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