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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Richard Rorty, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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)

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#skystorians #animals
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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."

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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
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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 📚
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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:
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Is the Benefit of a Two-Parent Family a Myth? Harvard Sociologist Explains | Amanpour and Company
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September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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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.
"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"

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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
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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
"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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Yuppies has a cover! And a release date!

Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.
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.

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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
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This is an indispensable guide to the Sonnets and a beautiful book.
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
September 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Today's featured title:

"For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America," by James M. O'Toole, Harvard University Press, 2025

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September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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...
www.newyorker.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Now available in english *A History of Political Conflict. Elections and Social Inequalities in France 1789-2022* 📚

Our book with Julia Cagé is out at @harvardpress.bsky.social >>> www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

All data sets available below 👇
September 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social for sending along an advance copy of their new annotated edition of The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. It's still a classic and a must read for any serious student of the Civil War era. 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman — Harvard University Press
A titan among Civil War military geniuses gives an unvarnished account of his career, presented for the first time in a definitive annotated edition, marking the 150th anniversary of the original publ...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Yes, you can (learn to understand Kant with the help of this new book). #Booksky
You'll love it as much as Kant loved coffee.

Marcus Willaschek's hotly anticipated Kant: A Revolution in Thinking is a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of Immanuel Kant, the founder of modern philosophy—suitable for experts and newcomers alike.
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM