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Publishes 70+ books per year in the humanities & social sciences, blending the strengths of a university press with innovation sparked by digital technologies

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As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, explore an abundance of great history from your university press!

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‘Integration at Second Base’ Review in @WSJ: Jackie Robinson’s Long Game

Robinson broke baseball’s color line and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series. His work fighting racial prejudice wasn’t limited to the world of sports.

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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

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What We Mourn explores both the power and the limitations of a new politics founded on grief and the protection of child life.

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Drawing on material ecocriticism, this title argues that Victorian Britons were aware of aquatic agency, seeing water as an active force able to infiltrate spaces.

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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 @DAMendelsohnNYC!

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"Thomas Jefferson's complicated legacy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence" featuring Press author Annette Gordon-Reed

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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 @DAMendelsohnNYC!

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#readUP #TheOdyssey

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. #SHEAR2026 may be over, but the 40% discount code lives on...until August 15!

Good to see you Steve Sarson, @CulturedModesty, Frank Cogliano, (and many more)!

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Congratulations to Steven Sarson, 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!

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We are here at #SHEAR2026! Stop by the booth, chat with an editor, browse our books, and take advantage of the conference discount!

Or, if you're not in Philadelphia, visit our virtual exhibit and use promo code <10SHEAR26> valid until August 15!

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UVA professor and UVAP author Ian Stevenson's quest for evidence of past lives:

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How did the United States embrace, use, and alter the image of Napoleon Bonaparte? Mark Ehlers give us much to think about in his new book _Napoleon in America_ @uvapress in how the French Emperor was symbol, enemy, and obstacle. https://t.co/GCnGoHzn8F https://t.co/jWAnNLhjYO

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What’s in the Box?!? https://t.co/jUXttiLuJf via @StyleWeekly

“The Buried Cause” highlights the contents and history of Monument Avenue’s Confederate cornerstones.

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"Summers draws contemporary comparisons cautiously, but readers will be struck with how relevant and scary his story is for us today."
—Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College

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Happy #pubday to "To Save Us All from Slavery's Power: Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge into Civil War" by Mark Wahlgren Summers!

A dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American Union

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"This book makes an argument with significant implications for our understanding of the United States' collapse into war. Written in a pacey, engaging style, it is filled with interesting vignettes and perceptive observations."
—Adam I. P. Smith, Oxford University

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Happy #pubday to "Redeemer, Reformer, Rebel: The Progressive Era Activism of Dr. Kate Waller Barrett" by Kathleen Waters Sander!

The first biography of one of Virginia’s greatest social reformers

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"Despite the ubiquity of consecrated relic pills in Tibetan Buddhist cultural settings—indeed, tiny baggies of such pills are distributed in even the most casual encounters with Tibetan lamas—there has been little research examining this phenomenon."

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Happy #pubday to "The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill: The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition" by James Duncan Gentry!

"Hands-down the best book on Tibetan Buddhism in a decade."
—Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley

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What did the founders mean by “all men are created equal”? Who did they believe was eligible to pursue life, liberty, and happiness? And how are Americans today thinking through their own answers?

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Happy #pubday to "The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill: The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition" by James Duncan Gentry!

"Hands-down the best book on Tibetan Buddhism in a decade."
—Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley

https://t.co/pwp9Vswd6K