Chris Slaby

A day early: happy publication! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/new-jersey-s...

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

Already our last day at #WHA2026! Thank you to the Western Historical Association for a wonderful conference! We're here until noon, but our WHA website will stay up for a bit so you still have time to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/w...

If you're attending #WHA2026, come visit us in the book exhibit, where tomorrow (Saturday) from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars (limit one book per person)!

In case people want to understand how much ideological work must be done to persuade the Democratic Party to build substantive public funding structures for humanities research: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

It's time for the Western History Association's 2026 annual meeting, and we're all set up in the book exhibit! Come pay us a visit if you're attending, or head to our #WHA2026 virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code WHA26 https://bit.ly/3VQ21Vj

Hey #ASA2026 👋 Have you stopped by our booth yet?

Find OSU Press in the exhibit hall, booth 201, at the WHA 2026 Conference in Portland, Oregon! Exhibit Hours: Thursday, October 22: 8:00am–5:00pm Friday, October 23: 8:00am–5:00pm Saturday, October 24: 8:00am–11:30am #WHA2026 #WesternHistory #OregonHistory #PacificNorthwest #PortlandOregon

Hello to the Western History Association! Thrilled to be in the Pacific Northwest for the annual #WHA2026 conference! We hope you'll drop by our exhibit booth to check out our latest books. Check out our WHS website for info on getting 40% off our books on exhibit! www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/w...

“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

It's time for #WHA2026! Can't visit the OUP booth in person? Browse our book selection here and receive 40% off select titles when you use promo code '18WHA26' at checkout. www.oupress.com/wha-2026/

Hot off the press! 📚 Glad to see 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, edited by Stephen Mosley, now in print. I had fun writing the chapter on "Work, Energy, and Power," with thanks to Stephen for shepherding the whole project to completion. #envhist #envhum #histstm

It’s weird how universities chase trends but won’t chase this trend!

“I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis and volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nahalin in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Great soccer practice reading, courtesy of @aseh.bsky.social @envirohistory.bsky.social! (Plus, great cover image (a wonderful Hiroshige print), @dfeds.bsky.social!)

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

A slide from my "Van Gogh's Modernity" graduate seminar @huntercollege.bsky.social this afternoon, when we talked about the conventionally simplistic view of Van Gogh & his work, and how deeply he was engaged with 19th-century popular culture & mechanically reproduced imagery

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

In case you missed it, we've launched the newly expanded Drafting the Past, a publication devoted to nonfiction history, with book reviews, interviews, publishing news, and more. Check it out: www.draftingthepast.com

A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

@uwapress.uw.edu isn't at #4S #4S2026 #4SToronto but SAVE 30% w/ promo code WST30 🌌🌃

Very grateful to see these publishers getting named and shamed. If this stuff is going to happen, and we all know it is, I'd rather see it happen with bright shining klieg lights instead of in darkness and secrecy. We should know that it's happening, and act accordingly.

@chrisirmscher.bsky.social recommends Janet Browne’s “magnificent” biography of Charles Darwin for @wsj.com: buff.ly/4UeYdIZ

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

#MEpolitics: As this poster in the exhibition currently on display at the Bangor Public Library reminds us, your attention matters. Direct it away from the mad wannabe king that desperately needs your abiding focus and toward what really matters: defeating his fascist collaborators in the midterms.

love this piece in @literaryhub.bsky.social #medievalsky lithub.com/what-to-read...

Bancroft Award-winning historian Thomas Andrews joins Kate on the podcast to talk about his love of revision, surviving first drafts, and the dissertation advice he might have taken too seriously. Plus they talk about his new book, THE GREAT HORSE FLU (@uncpress.bsky.social). Listen: buff.ly/FYvA0Yx

"Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake" is a new #OpenAccess volume of essays containing lots of good stuff on this culturally significant Chinese spot #Hangzhou #WestLake #西湖 @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social brill.com/edcollbook-o...

It is a real delight to see my book mentioned alongside some all-time great cover designs -- I deserve no credit for mine whatsoever!

We picked some of our favorite nonfiction history book covers in recent memory. See what made our list and why, and tell us what you would add! www.draftingthepast.com/12-history-b... #booksky

Caspar David Friedrich, rubs chin pensively: “it really makes you think.”

Tomorrow is the official publication day for A GLORIOUS FATE. To help mark my book's release, I will be taking part in a live discussion with the A. Lincoln Book Shop at 4:30 pm EST. Join us and pick up your own signed copy of the book. cc: @uncpress.bsky.social alincolnbookshop.com/a-house-divi...

Always yes to this! One of the most consequential political acts in the 21st century U.S. was to elevate Palin to the VP ticket.

Excited to be working with Norton on two new histories of Japan! I have my work cut out for me for approximately the next decade!!

In 1999 -- NINETEEN NINETY-NINE!!! -- I took an intro class at UT called "African Intellectual Thought," and it was rigorous and excellent, and it will not surprise you at all that none of the texts we read were written by people on this list. Just so depressing what's being done to my alma mater.

This 1890 painting by Van Gogh of flowering chestnut trees, which hasn't been seen publicly in over 50 years, and which goes on sale - along with modern works by the likes of Cezanne, Monet & others - at Sotheby's in NY in November👀 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...