Jeremy Dibbell

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...

www.adirondackexplorer.org/communities/... For something extra lovely and uplifting read this article and watch the video of my amazing daughter and her wonderful partner as they share a bit of their beautiful farm! You’ll be glad you did! #sustainabledairy #farmsteadcheese #sugarhousecreamery #ADKS

Just keeps getting better for book history folks! A Perfect Machine: The Adams Power Press now on sale at Oak Knoll Books -- 20% off through Tuesday, Oct. 6. Browse The Legacy Press catalog on your way to Oak Knoll to add this history of the industrial book volume to your library. TheLegacyPress.com

Auction catalog I'm working on has a title listed as "State of Breat Gritain" instead of "Great Britain" and whether or not it was on purpose, it definitely gave me a chuckle.

Found the "60 Minutes" interview with Dolly Parton from 2009 that has stuck with me all these years. Worth a watch! www.cbsnews.com/video/dolly-...

A Life of Many Colors - a cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

I couldn't do it.

Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs: My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Help @librarything.com hire a Boston book lover! blog.librarything.com/2026/08/bost...

It’s our last day at #AOS26, hosted by the @amornith.bsky.social but you still have time to stop by our table! Not only do we have fascinating new ornithology titles for you to check out, but we’re also giving out code EXH30 for 30% off (in the US & Canada) through Aug 31!

Last year, the BHL community helped us take flight into a new independent future. Now we need reliable monthly support to sustain the people, systems & infrastructure that keep BHL’s 64+ million pages freely available to everyone. 🧪 Become a #BHLSustainer 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLSust...

This Tuesday I am discussing money as part of the JCB's excellent The Revolution Is News virtual series. Details about registering and watching remotely at jcblibrary.org. As a bonus I will be showing all sorts of cool images of 18th century money, so you don't have to watch me speak into a camera.

The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.

You deny global warming, or just like pointlessly feeding it? Or are you ignorant of the consequences of your choices?

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Just a reminder that my book, British Women Writers and the Review Periodical talks about what discoveries we can make when HUMANS compile data about history, and HUMANS evaluate the messy parts of that data instead of rejecting them. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th

I’m glad this video of me talking about the 250th is up today, even just for me. I’m as pensive and angry as anyone today- and also hopeful. I have been teaching the Declaration for 20 years. All of those conversations with my students are embedded in the history and lessons I talk about here.

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

This is a very perceptive, insightful essay. There are a couple of historiographical points I might quibble with—but so what? It also conveys the terrible juxtaposition of Gordon’s death with the moral gravity of the 250th, something we are finding it difficult to grasp.

My essay “New Antiquities” & @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s “Why Literary Studies Must Embrace Computing” don’t EXIST yet are cited in this “peer reviewed” essay on AI and DH . Guess we didn’t lead the “cultural turn” in DH either! 🤬https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/download/697/614

How does a student get something to say? By reading and playing and experimenting and talking and imagining and observing and questioning and listening. By being in the world. By feeling. By being wrong. By being right.

Yep yep yep. You should want to know the foundation for the history you’re being sold. Might just be a story. Footnotes and etc are about accountability, transparency and information integrity! #footnotesfordemocracy

A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory

Our 50% Off Sale is underway! 🎉 Enjoy 50% off nearly all PUP books (print, ebooks & audiobooks), with code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list? 📚

Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉 
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.

Giving a lecture on some ideas about provenance and (un)writing names in books at the @obs1922.bsky.social next Thursday. Zoom link also available for anyone keen!

Here begins a little thread about all the chapters in my new book Shakespeare in the Kitchen! (to be updated sorta daily until I make it all the way through)

Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."

Only two days until #BHLDay2026. Join us for a glimpse of what BHL can become and how biodiversity literature can be transformed into data, connections, and something that can be built upon in entirely new ways. 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏 🔗 Full program and registration: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...

By acquiescing to demands that we cede class time to tutorials in the use of commercial products we are stealing from our students the opportunity for advanced intellectual development in the subjects we were hired to teach and destroying the future of our fields embodied by those students.