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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 1d

The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference is going on now! If you can't be there in person, visit our virtual exhibit here: upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/JWI...

Use promo code <10JWIL25> for 40% off through the end of the month!

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #pubday to "Vignettes of Colonial Virginia: Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America" by Brent Tarter!

Illuminating stories of colonial life from the dean of Virginia history

upress.virginia.edu/title/10150/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 6d

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #pubday to "The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine" by Paul William Child!

Understanding Jonathan Swift’s medical and literary life

upress.virginia.edu/title/10133/

#swiftie #readUP #booksky

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 13d

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"The American public played an extremely active role in determining – not simply reacting to – American imperial policy during the Early Republic."

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 13d

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #pubday to "Napoleon in America: Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire" by Mark F. Ehlers!

How Napoleon’s legacy infused American debates over empire in the nineteenth century

upress.virginia.edu/title/10137/

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to say that The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States has won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for the best manuscript in eighteenth-century studies submitted to @uvapress.bsky.social

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

The Course of Human Events

<b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #pubday to "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" by Peter D. Blackmer!

Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life

upress.virginia.edu/title/10145/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 14d

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 14d

Visit our ASALH virtual exhibit: upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/ASA...

Use code <10ASALH25> for 40% off books below through October 15!

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 14d

Happy #pubday to "Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions" by Kilian Harrer!

How Catholic pilgrims in an era of revolution challenged state authority and redefined the practice of their faith

upress.virginia.edu/title/10138/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 15d

Happy #pubday to "Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness" by Miho Mazereeuw!

"Those who seek to keep residents and communities safe from shocks of all kinds will learn something important from this book."
—Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University

upress.virginia.edu/title/5509/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #pubday to "George Washington: His Quest for Honor and Fame" by Peter R. Henriques!

A concise, compelling biography of Washington and the forces that drove him

"An interpretative key to understanding this guarded, complex figure."
National Review

upress.virginia.edu/title/10159/

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Amy Bertsch @amybertsch.bsky.social · 24d

#DMV friends, hope you can join me Oct 9 at this Arlington Library event with Charles Ford and Jay Watkins, co-chair of @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social, as we discuss our new book “Queer Virginia” from @uvapress.bsky.social arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/15366220

Author Talk: "Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion" in celebration of LGBTQ History Month

Celebrate and learn about Queer history of the Commonwealth Join us for an engaging discussion of the new book, “Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion" and learn about V...

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 9

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Its great strength is to restore the contingency that Richmonders who lived through the transition actually experienced."
—Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, author of "Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War"

UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 9

"I was pulled through this powerful story. Richmond, and this singular historical moment, emerge in wonderful detail and clarity."
—Edward L. Ayers, former president of the University of Richmond and Bancroft Prize-winning author of "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860"

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy #pubday to "After the Fire: Richmond in Defeat" by Nelson D. Lankford!

How the Confederate capital’s citizens, white and Black, faced their future in the wake of Union victory

"A triumph."
—Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University

upress.virginia.edu/title/10095/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Buildings of Missouri – Buildings of the United States

Register here!
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2025 Society of Architectural Historians St. Louis Chapter/Steedman Library Lecture Series presents Carol Grove and Cole Woodcox

The September installment of the 2025 SAH STL/Steedman Library Lecture Series will feature Carol Grove, Adjunct Professor of American Art, University of Missouri-Columbia and Cole Woodcox, former Exec...

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Sep 4

Still one of the best titles out there:

Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 2

Take 40% off when you buy bundle together with volume 1

Use promo code <10FITZ2> at checkout!

upress.virginia.edu/title/5935/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy #pubday to "The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Century— Volume 2" by Earl E. Fitz

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas

"A foundational new book."
—Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple University

upress.virginia.edu/title/10094/

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Virginia has grown an organizational unicorn to track political money. Here's the story behind it. cardinalnews.org/2025/08/29/v...

Virginia has grown an organizational unicorn to track political money. Here’s the story behind it.

Those who follow politics have come to rely on the Virginia Public Access Project. They may not realize how unusual it is, or the old-fashioned newspaper war that helped create it.

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · Aug 26

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