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Happy birthday to the Bard!
There's no better guide to the sonnets of William Shakespeare than Helen Vendler.
This Poetry Month, save 30% on your copy of The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets with the code POE30: tinyurl.com/yc8nzsw3
There's no better guide to the sonnets of William Shakespeare than Helen Vendler.
This Poetry Month, save 30% on your copy of The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets with the code POE30: tinyurl.com/yc8nzsw3
"Both Zohran and Mira kept telling me: 'You have to insert yourself as a character in this. You were alive. You were involved. Take responsibility, but tell us. Tell us the part of the story which nobody else will be able to tell us.'”
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Both Zohran and Mira kept telling me: 'You have to insert yourself as a character in this. You were alive. You were involved. Take responsibility, but tell us. Tell us the part of the story which nobody else will be able to tell us.'”
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New on The Guardian : “Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’”
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New on The Guardian : “Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’”
The presidential pardon is one of the most potent tools in American governance.
Originally intended as a mechanism of mercy, it's now used to shield allies, reward loyalty, and make political statements.
This important new book by Saikrishna Prakash explores its history and future: bit.ly/3LJJZPn
Originally intended as a mechanism of mercy, it's now used to shield allies, reward loyalty, and make political statements.
This important new book by Saikrishna Prakash explores its history and future: bit.ly/3LJJZPn
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The presidential pardon is one of the most potent tools in American governance.
Originally intended as a mechanism of mercy, it's now used to shield allies, reward loyalty, and make political statements.
This important new book by Saikrishna Prakash explores its history and future: bit.ly/3LJJZPn
Originally intended as a mechanism of mercy, it's now used to shield allies, reward loyalty, and make political statements.
This important new book by Saikrishna Prakash explores its history and future: bit.ly/3LJJZPn
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I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to HAHR board member Marcy Norton, whose book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 has been awarded a number of prizes from the American Historical Association and the Conference on Latin American History. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/history...
History professor Marcy Norton awarded | Penn Today
Marcy Norton, professor of history in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, has received three awards for her new book, “The Tame and the Wild”: the Friedrich Katz Prize from the American Historical Assoc...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression, trans. Robert Savage, @harvardpress.bsky.social, July 2025
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Progress and Regression — Harvard University Press
Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward gender and racial equity, few believe that humanity is on the road of progress. Indeed, many are i...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression, trans. Robert Savage, @harvardpress.bsky.social, July 2025
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Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
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As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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Richard Primus (@richardprimus.bsky.social), The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Oldest Constitutional Question — Harvard University Press
A groundbreaking challenge to a core principle of constitutional law, arguing that congressional action is not limited by the legislative branch’s textually enumerated powers.Every law student learns ...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Richard Primus (@richardprimus.bsky.social), The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Thank you @lennibenson.bsky.social for inviting me to speak with her immigration class at New York Law School about "Threat of Dissent."
Always happy to Zoom or talk with students in person about ideological exclusion & deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social.
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Always happy to Zoom or talk with students in person about ideological exclusion & deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social.
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Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press
“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Thank you @lennibenson.bsky.social for inviting me to speak with her immigration class at New York Law School about "Threat of Dissent."
Always happy to Zoom or talk with students in person about ideological exclusion & deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Always happy to Zoom or talk with students in person about ideological exclusion & deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Sarah's book is such a fascinating history of beautiful and mysterious orchids. Very much looking foward to her event and @harvardpress.bsky.social will be there selling her new book 💐 - ticket link ⬇️
Join us on Tues 18 Nov for an evening of mystery, botany & Victorian intrigue at the Linnean Society. In 1818, a strange orchid arrived in England...and vanished. @sbilston.bsky.social uncovers the tale of Cattleya labiata and the Linnean archives that helped crack the case.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sarah's book is such a fascinating history of beautiful and mysterious orchids. Very much looking foward to her event and @harvardpress.bsky.social will be there selling her new book 💐 - ticket link ⬇️
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Richard Rorty, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Richard Rorty, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY
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📚 Compte rendu / Book review
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492, @harvardpress.bsky.social, 2024.
by Kathleen Kete (@trinitycollege.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492, @harvardpress.bsky.social, 2024.
by Kathleen Kete (@trinitycollege.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📚 Compte rendu / Book review
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492, @harvardpress.bsky.social, 2024.
by Kathleen Kete (@trinitycollege.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492, @harvardpress.bsky.social, 2024.
by Kathleen Kete (@trinitycollege.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals
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@publisherswkly.bsky.social reviews Jennifer Vail's Friction: A Biography. @harvardpress.bsky.social
"[E]ye-opening ... Readers will be inspired to start noticing how this hidden force shapes the world around them."
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674290662
"[E]ye-opening ... Readers will be inspired to start noticing how this hidden force shapes the world around them."
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674290662
Friction: A Biography by Jennifer R Vail
Mechanical engineer Vail, who specializes in the study of friction, argues in this convincing debut survey that the force is imp...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@publisherswkly.bsky.social reviews Jennifer Vail's Friction: A Biography. @harvardpress.bsky.social
"[E]ye-opening ... Readers will be inspired to start noticing how this hidden force shapes the world around them."
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674290662
"[E]ye-opening ... Readers will be inspired to start noticing how this hidden force shapes the world around them."
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674290662
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Come and join me and @carosanderson.bsky.social at @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social on Bonfire Night. No books will be harmed during the event - even though I will be talking about 'Burning the Books' (available from @johnmurrays.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social)!
🔥 Firewords Night🔥
Ten Stroud authors will read from books that have inspired their writing. And our special guest for the evening is Richard Ovenden, author of “Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack”.
Profits from this evening’s event will be donated to @readforgood 📚
Ten Stroud authors will read from books that have inspired their writing. And our special guest for the evening is Richard Ovenden, author of “Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack”.
Profits from this evening’s event will be donated to @readforgood 📚
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Come and join me and @carosanderson.bsky.social at @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social on Bonfire Night. No books will be harmed during the event - even though I will be talking about 'Burning the Books' (available from @johnmurrays.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social)!
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I’ve had this for a while, a fun read after my first Search. Just found out at my local indie that it’s finally available in paperback. The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor, Belknap Press of @harvardpress.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’ve had this for a while, a fun read after my first Search. Just found out at my local indie that it’s finally available in paperback. The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor, Belknap Press of @harvardpress.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky
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Mahmood Mamdani's new book (just released from @harvardpress.bsky.social) is an account of the fate of postcolonial Uganda, intertwined with a intellectual and political autobiography.
October 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mahmood Mamdani's new book (just released from @harvardpress.bsky.social) is an account of the fate of postcolonial Uganda, intertwined with a intellectual and political autobiography.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Philippe Aghion, coauthor of The Power of Creative Destruction! The award recognizes his pioneering research on innovation, growth, and the dynamics of creative destruction.
Keep reading: tinyurl.com/4xpkw5kf
Keep reading: tinyurl.com/4xpkw5kf
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Philippe Aghion, coauthor of The Power of Creative Destruction! The award recognizes his pioneering research on innovation, growth, and the dynamics of creative destruction.
Keep reading: tinyurl.com/4xpkw5kf
Keep reading: tinyurl.com/4xpkw5kf
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It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space
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"A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra." – @theguardian.com
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra." – @theguardian.com
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
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I’m delighted to share that link to my PBS interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY is now available! Follow the link below:
youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...
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Is the Benefit of a Two-Parent Family a Myth? Harvard Sociologist Explains | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I’m delighted to share that link to my PBS interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY is now available! Follow the link below:
youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...
youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...
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"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes."
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth"
www.vox.com/policy/46177...
www.vox.com/policy/46177...
The big myth about why Black kids can’t get ahead
How ignoring two-parent families has warped the narrative.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes."
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
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It was a pleasure speaking with senior policy correspondent @rachelbooth.bsky.social from @vox.com about my new book—and what my research means for debates about family structure & racial inequality. Read about our wide-ranging discussion below:
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September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It was a pleasure speaking with senior policy correspondent @rachelbooth.bsky.social from @vox.com about my new book—and what my research means for debates about family structure & racial inequality. Read about our wide-ranging discussion below:
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"A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra." – @theguardian.com
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra." – @theguardian.com
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
Freedom of speech is on everyone's mind—but did you know the concept itself is a relatively recent phenomenon?
Regulating speech and print was once universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government.
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August 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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The Ritual of Civic Apology
More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...