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Amy Bertsch @amybertsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! On Oct 14, I'll discuss the "Remarkable Visibility of Hannah Nokes" in Old Town Alexandria. Will be selling and signing "Queer Virginia" from @uvapress.bsky.social and giving away mini-zines, stickers + magnets alexlibraryva.org/event/17224672 #TransHistory #LGBTQHistory

Poster from Alexandria Library for LGBTQ+ History Month for The Remarkable Visibility of Hannah Nokes talk on October 14, 6pm at Local History/Special Collections library. Images of Hannah Nokes wearing an apron and mob cap at a wash tub and the cover of the book Queer Virginia.

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2026 Conference is underway in Savannah, Georgia! Visit the virtual exhibit, and use code 10SESAH26 for 40% off books below through October 15th! upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/ses...

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #pubday to "Wharfed Out: Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront" by Kathryn K. Lasdow! How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistance upress.virginia.edu/title/10247/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #pubday to "The District’s Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries" by Kim Roberts Meikle! The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation’s capital upress.virginia.edu/title/10208/ #booksky #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Only later did people begin "to view the American Revolution as a much more revolutionary event than it had been and that its main protagonists and leaders had wanted it to be." Read an interview with Anna Vincenzi: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Matthew Mason @matthewmason.bsky.social, author of "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-the-... #skystorians #booksky #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Despite differences over foreign and domestic policy, even within the same political party, opponents can forge alliances that can help them solve social and economic problems if they can find room for compromise." Read an interview with Barbara A. Perry: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #pubday to "Echoes of a Distant Republic" by Anna Vincenzi! How the American and French Revolutions were interpreted in the Italian states and how that understanding helped redefine the concept of revolution itself upress.virginia.edu/title/10234/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." – William Faulkner, Light in August For more about Faulkner, check out @jackewilson.bsky.social's talk with author Carl Rollyson. #botd #books #literature #faulkner @uvapress.bsky.social

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488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)

Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson about his new two-volume biography of William Faulkner, The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-…

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The 2026 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Conference is underway! Visit our virtual exhibit and use code 10ASALH26 for 40% off select books through October 15th! upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/asa...

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a great time yesterday at James Monroe's Highland discussing the 250 volume with @uvapress.bsky.social's Nadine Zimmerli (our peerless editor) and @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social. Thanks to the folks who came out in the rain to talk about history!

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy #pubday to "Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt" by Barbara A. Perry! The remarkable partnership that united the two great political dynasties of the twentieth century upress.virginia.edu/title/10228/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"This project has reaffirmed our belief that face-to-face social interactions are an essential part of historical research, public education, and pluralistic societies." Read an interview with William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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Author's Corner with William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson, authors of THE VANISHING SCHOOLS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY - UVA Press

Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson, authors of The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County: A

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy #pubday to "The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County: A History of Public Education in Rural Virginia" by William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson! An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communities upress.virginia.edu/title/10232/

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Asher Lubotzky joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss African perceptions of Israel and Palestine for his book, Shifting Solidarities, new from @uvapress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Asher Lubotzky, historian of African perceptions of Israel and Palestine, Ask Me Anything!

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New episode of Ben Franklin's World: Professor T. H. Breen asks a question most grand narratives of the American Revolution skip past: What did it actually feel like, in real towns among real people, to stop being British? What did it mean to be American? benfranklinsworld.com/episode-451-...

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Check out this new episode of "Off the Road: A Podcast about the Environmental Humanities" with Joel Duncan, author of "Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility" off-the-road.podigee.io/6-06-poetic-...

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06 – Poetic Drive | with Joel Duncan

What does poetry have to do with driving? And what insights can poetry from the driver’s seat provide about our environmental crisis? In this episode, Jannis talks with a former colleague of his, Joe...

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Hadley Suter (Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist) about the French novelist Stendhal and his classic realist novels The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black. #books @uvapress.bsky.social

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830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A Literary Tribute t…

We often say it's important for a person to be "authentic," but what does that mean? Why is that necessarily a good thing? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Ha…

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I hope readers will come away with a sense of just how many ways people’s religious lives were touched and transformed by the Revolution." Read an interview with editor Katherine Carté: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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Author's Corner with Katherine Carté, editor of REVOLUTIONARY TURNS - UVA Press

Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Katherine Carté, editor of Revolutionary Turns: Religion and America’s Founding Era What inspir

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

T. H. Breen explores how a court case against an American colonel and the response of American military officers to a British general provided the setting for the new nation to assert its political and cultural independence youtu.be/21UhQxltfP0?...

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Touchstones of Democracy: After the Declaration

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy #pubday to "Revolutionary Turns: Religion and America's Founding Era," edited by Katherine Carté! Exploring the dynamic interplay between religion and revolution in the founding era upress.virginia.edu/title/10229/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy #pubday to "'Capitalism and Slavery' Revisited: The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work," edited by Trevor Burnard, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, and Laura R. Sandy! upress.virginia.edu/title/10218/

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"Capitalism and Slavery" Revisited - UVA Press

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Ca

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"A chance encounter with a book of arresting paintings from colonial Mexico and Peru sparked my reckoning with what we today call race, and the deeper I went, the more intriguing—and unsettling—the story became." Read an interview with the author: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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Author's Corner with Ruth Hill, author of RECKONING WITH RACE IN NEW WORLDS - UVA Press

Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Ruth Hill, author of Reckoning with Race in New Worlds What inspired you to write this book? I

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy #pubday to "A Sea of Possibilities: The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen" by Kenneth J. Banks! The story of a cunning sea captain whose tempestuous life charts new dimensions of the American Revolution upress.virginia.edu/title/10219/ #skystorians #booksky #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

youtu.be/FIOn_6DJ05M?... Dr. Holly White discusses her new book, "Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States."

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Constructing American Childhood with Holly White

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

August is Women in Translation Month! #readUP There's still time to get 50% off select books from our CARAF series using promo code <10WIT26> at checkout! Check out some of the great books on offer below 👇

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy #pubday to "Vignettes of Revolutionary Virginia: Remarkable Stories from the Founding of the Nation" by Brent Tarter! Illuminating and captivating stories of life in the American Revolutionary era, from the dean of Virginia history upress.virginia.edu/title/10217/ #booksky #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Meet the George Washington Prize finalists, including Steven Sarson, author of "The Course of Human Events" www.youtube.com/live/p5EDy73...

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Meet the Authors: 2026's Best Books on the Founding Era

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy #pubday to "Where Love Leads: Leadership and the Liberal Arts" by Mary Dana Hinton! With an afterword by Eboo Patel. A higher education innovator identifies a surprising element missing in today’s leadership www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10225/ #readUP

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy #pubday to "Reckoning with Race in New Worlds" by Ruth Hill! How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10164/ #readUP #booksky #skystorians

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A letter to the editor in @nybooks.com from Peter Eisenstadt, author of "Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship" #ReadUP #JackieRobinson #CivilRights www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10200/...

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy #pubday to "Ecologies of Resistance: Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds," edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli! Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10179/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Curious about "Homer’s elliptical narrative technique and how it influenced some other writers’ styles and lives"? Read "Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate" by Daniel Mendelsohn! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626/

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Three Rings - UVA Press

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we l

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

youtu.be/xDVd4jMCmSk?... "Thomas Jefferson's complicated legacy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence" featuring Press author @agordonreed.bsky.social

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Thomas Jefferson's complicated legacy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Three Rings - UVA Press

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we l

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

. #SHEAR2026 may be over, but the 40% discount code still lives . . . until August 15! Good to see you @stevesarson.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social@frankcogliano.bsky.social, @matthewmason.bsky.social, Christopher Pearl, Susan Stearns (And many more)! www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/she...

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Conference swag. Probably his least controversial position. @uvapress.bsky.social

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A rare social media appearance (with her blessing) of my nonpareil editor, Nadine Zimmerli, and the book we did together for @uvapress.bsky.social (with 24 amazing colleagues). Taken at #SHEAR2026

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Congratulations to @stevesarson.bsky.social whose book 'The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States' has been named a finalist for the 2026 George Washington Prize! www.mountvernon.org/about/news/n...

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Nominees Announced for the 2026 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Prestigious Book Awards

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