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Have you read Journal of Olympic Studies 6.2 yet? Featuring Dikaia Chatziefstathiou ( @canterburyccuni.bsky.social ), Erin E. Redihan ( @salvereginauni.bsky.social ), and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jos/issu...
Cover of Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, 2025 Published for the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research White background with five semicircles resembling the Olympic rings
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Check out the five new articles in The Pluralist Vol. 20, No. 3, now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55706
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December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"I have been delighted to see how many people are excited about literature from their hometown and region."

The Q&A for LINGERING INLAND is live!
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Lingering Inland A Literary Tour of the Midwest Author: Edited by Andy Oler
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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American Music SPECIAL ISSUE on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Vol. 42, Iss. 2 is entitled "Current Perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico" and was guest edited by Marysol Quevedo. Contributors include Mark Levine ( @cnucaptains.bsky.social ), Noel Torres-Rivera, and more.
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Cover of American Music, Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2024. Horizontal rectangles in a column on the right side of the cover in a gradient of yellow and green shades on white textured background.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.4 is available on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Contributors include Britt Mize ( @tamu.bsky.social ), @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social ( @unibonn.bsky.social ), @dariocapelli.bsky.social , and more. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social
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Cover of Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP), Volume 124, Number 4 Brown, red, and white background with medieval illustration of a man and an intricate floral border on the left, featuring the Table of Contents.
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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In Process Studies 54.2 Myron Moses Jackson explicates Whitehead's theory of propositions & aesthetic foundations of experience, in the “twilight zone” of subjective valuation between physical purposes & clear consciousness. @ctr4process.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/artic...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Silvia Dapía ( @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ) discusses Witold Gombrowicz's short story “A Premeditated Crime" to focus on Gombrowicz's story as a new model of resentment in Vol. 82, Iss. 2 of Polish American Studies. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 2, Autumn 2025 White and red color block background with photo: 1966 United States Post Office stamps commemorating Poland’s Millenium—a thousand-year anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, is here, featuring three new articles, plus book reviews by @loriflores.bsky.social, @nellstra.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Gui Hwan Lee examines a 7min sequence from the soundtrack of Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" through the lenses of ecological satire, counterpoint, and third meaning in Music & the Moving Image 18.3, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Happy #HumanRightsDay to the interviewees of Michele Eggers-Barison's CRIMINALIZATION OF WOMEN, who reveal how the illegalization of abortion in Chile & the construction of women as criminals went hand in hand
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Criminalization of Women Abortion, Inequity, and Resistance in Chile Author: Michele Eggers-Barison
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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"Embracing the Radical Potential of Art + Design Education," an #OpenAccess special issue of Visual Arts Research Vol. 51, Iss. 2, is guest edited by @courtniewolfgang.bsky.social, Mindi Rhoades, Veronica Hicks, and @lllart.bsky.social. Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55976
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December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Don't miss @jmormonhist.bsky.social 51.4, available online! Featuring Julia Preston ( @univofmaryland.bsky.social ), Corinne Clarkson ( @utah.edu ), Sarah Barringer Gordon ( @upenn.edu ), and more. Plus, an In Memoriam section honoring Jan Shipps.
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Cover of Journal of Mormon History Volume 51, No. 4, 2025. Warren Archer's abstraction of the Salt Lake Seventeenth Ward window in a pale purple color.
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"Jig dancing matches were taken as seriously as boxing matches in the mid-nineteenth century."

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December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Happy Pub Date to JOHANN MOST: Life of a Radical by @tomgoyens.bsky.social!
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Johann Most Life of a Radical Author: Tom Goyens
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Pub Date to DIAMOND AND JUBA: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing by @historydancer.bsky.social!
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Diamond and Juba The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing Author: April F. Masten
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Check out "The Ethics of Aesthetic Discourse" in Journal of Aesthetic Education 59.3 and "Identity Conditions for Gardens" in American Philosophical Quarterly 62.4, both by David Fenner!

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Cover of Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 59, Issue 3, Fall 2025 Grey bold letters spelling "JAE" on a dark navy blue background Cover of American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 4, October 2025 Blue letters spell "APQ" at the top of the page on a green rectangle, with a yellow rectangle below separating it from the rest of the red background.
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Happy Pub Date to JOSEPH: An Epic by Zachary McLeod Hutchins!
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Joseph An Epic Author: Zachary McLeod Hutchins
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Happy Pub Date to RINGS OF DISSENT: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and David J. Leonard!
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Rings of Dissent Boxing and Performances of Rebellion Author: Edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and David J. Leonard
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Check out the articles in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 58, Iss. 3 for work from UIP author Matthew L. Harris (THUNDER FROM THE RIGHT), @colbytownsend.bsky.social, and Suzanne E. Greco. All #OpenAccess. Edited by @taylorpetrey.bsky.social. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
Cover of Dialogue, Volume 58, Issue 3, Fall 2025 On the covers: Paola Bidinelli, Letter from Gethsemane, 2021, mixed media on canvas
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Don't miss this OPEN ACCESS article in Polish American Studies 82.2 by Izabella Kimak that analyzes two works by John Guzlowski and uses the concepts of memory studies to draw attention to the impact of his parents' refugee experience on his work. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 2, Autumn 2025 White and red color block background with photo: 1966 United States Post Office stamps commemorating Poland’s Millenium—a thousand-year anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Process Studies 54.2 "A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead’s Legacy at Harvard" includes "Royce, Whitehead, and the Context of Philosophy at Harvard," "Whitehead's Organic Education in China," & more. cc: @ctr4process.bsky.social
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Introduction to a Special Focus Section on Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard. Daniel A. Dombrowski, Editor. Green background and blue pen.
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Free to access until December 31: "Startup Culture: MLMs, Mormons, and Entrepreneurship" by Deborah Whitehead in Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 10. cc: @jstuart.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Celebrate the Land of Lincoln, it's National Illinois Day!

Learn more about the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and the #OA Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association:
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December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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On this #NationalMinersDay, we draw attention to @johngav.bsky.social & Gabe Schwartzman's book, POWER & JUST TRANSITIONS, which merges historical perspective w/interviews to look at how coal’s decline impacted power & resistance in an Appalachian community
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Power and Just Transitions Struggles for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley Author: John Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Maria Fuchs examines the music in German "Heimatfilm" (sentimental film in an idealized regional setting) in terms of cultural memory and the cultural coding of music in Vol. 18, Iss. 3 of Music and the Moving Image, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM