Laura Ansley
@lmansley.bsky.social
Editor, historian, feminist, & book-lover | Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
Read @naominovik.bsky.social’s lovely new novella in two sittings today. 🧝🏼♂️
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Read @naominovik.bsky.social’s lovely new novella in two sittings today. 🧝🏼♂️
Gotta love local news.
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Gotta love local news.
It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
I’ve been having a really hard time focusing on reading recently, for obvious reasons. But @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social delivered in Breakout Year. All her books are gems, but this one is really special.
And you gotta love a dedication that sticks it to the jerks.
And you gotta love a dedication that sticks it to the jerks.
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ve been having a really hard time focusing on reading recently, for obvious reasons. But @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social delivered in Breakout Year. All her books are gems, but this one is really special.
And you gotta love a dedication that sticks it to the jerks.
And you gotta love a dedication that sticks it to the jerks.
Long weekend, back in the greatest city for homecoming and a giant sorority reunion. 💚💛
October 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Long weekend, back in the greatest city for homecoming and a giant sorority reunion. 💚💛
Beautiful long weekend in the Finger Lakes welcoming a new person into our family. The best measure of a good wedding and family trip? How few photos I took.
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Beautiful long weekend in the Finger Lakes welcoming a new person into our family. The best measure of a good wedding and family trip? How few photos I took.
The Corning Museum of Glass lives up to its incredible reputation. And we’re bringing a decorative gourd home with us.
October 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Corning Museum of Glass lives up to its incredible reputation. And we’re bringing a decorative gourd home with us.
R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it.
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it.
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
Reading a book that is basically the Andor prison break as a whole romance novel, and I couldn’t be happier.
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reading a book that is basically the Andor prison break as a whole romance novel, and I couldn’t be happier.
Oh my goodness, the @historians.org staff surprised me with a book cake! 😭
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Oh my goodness, the @historians.org staff surprised me with a book cake! 😭
When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
September 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
Happy Friday!
Have you preordered The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader yet? There are only 4 days left until publication day, and an order just isn’t as cool as a preorder. (JK, we’ll take preorders, orders, or any other way you want to get a copy!)
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
Have you preordered The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader yet? There are only 4 days left until publication day, and an order just isn’t as cool as a preorder. (JK, we’ll take preorders, orders, or any other way you want to get a copy!)
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
September 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Happy Friday!
Have you preordered The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader yet? There are only 4 days left until publication day, and an order just isn’t as cool as a preorder. (JK, we’ll take preorders, orders, or any other way you want to get a copy!)
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
Have you preordered The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader yet? There are only 4 days left until publication day, and an order just isn’t as cool as a preorder. (JK, we’ll take preorders, orders, or any other way you want to get a copy!)
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
It’s my birthday, so I made it an extra-long holiday weekend. My spouse bought flowers for me at the farmers market and cooked an incredible dinner. I stayed mostly offline and enjoyed myself thoroughly. 🎈
September 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s my birthday, so I made it an extra-long holiday weekend. My spouse bought flowers for me at the farmers market and cooked an incredible dinner. I stayed mostly offline and enjoyed myself thoroughly. 🎈
Bookish checkpoint!
📖 Last book read:
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
📖 Current read:
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
📖 Last book added to TBR:
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
📖 Next read:
Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
#booksky
📖 Last book read:
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
📖 Current read:
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
📖 Last book added to TBR:
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
📖 Next read:
Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
#booksky
September 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bookish checkpoint!
📖 Last book read:
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
📖 Current read:
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
📖 Last book added to TBR:
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
📖 Next read:
Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
#booksky
📖 Last book read:
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
📖 Current read:
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
📖 Last book added to TBR:
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
📖 Next read:
Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
#booksky
Box of editor copies has arrived. Still not too late to preorder your own @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader before publication on Sep 9! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
August 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Box of editor copies has arrived. Still not too late to preorder your own @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader before publication on Sep 9! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
Headed to New York state this weekend for a family event and taking my last #AHAReads book with me.
To fulfill the task “Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work,” I’ll be reading the @dig-history.bsky.social historians dig into Lily Dale, NY, and its 19th-c. history.
To fulfill the task “Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work,” I’ll be reading the @dig-history.bsky.social historians dig into Lily Dale, NY, and its 19th-c. history.
August 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Headed to New York state this weekend for a family event and taking my last #AHAReads book with me.
To fulfill the task “Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work,” I’ll be reading the @dig-history.bsky.social historians dig into Lily Dale, NY, and its 19th-c. history.
To fulfill the task “Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work,” I’ll be reading the @dig-history.bsky.social historians dig into Lily Dale, NY, and its 19th-c. history.
I was very brave in coming to the office today when DC is so crime-riddled. Just look at our lawless neighborhood.
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I was very brave in coming to the office today when DC is so crime-riddled. Just look at our lawless neighborhood.
24. Reread a childhood favorite book.
I loved Anne McCaffrey as a kid and decided to revisit The Rowan. It’s still great, and now I have reread the subsequent 4 books in the series...
Also, we really lost something when they stopped doing cover art like this. (Art by Romas)
I loved Anne McCaffrey as a kid and decided to revisit The Rowan. It’s still great, and now I have reread the subsequent 4 books in the series...
Also, we really lost something when they stopped doing cover art like this. (Art by Romas)
August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
24. Reread a childhood favorite book.
I loved Anne McCaffrey as a kid and decided to revisit The Rowan. It’s still great, and now I have reread the subsequent 4 books in the series...
Also, we really lost something when they stopped doing cover art like this. (Art by Romas)
I loved Anne McCaffrey as a kid and decided to revisit The Rowan. It’s still great, and now I have reread the subsequent 4 books in the series...
Also, we really lost something when they stopped doing cover art like this. (Art by Romas)
Excited to read and then share with the other woman in my D&D group. (Our husbands are also welcome to read it, but I have realistic expectations.)
August 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Excited to read and then share with the other woman in my D&D group. (Our husbands are also welcome to read it, but I have realistic expectations.)
Bookish checkpoint!
📖 Last book read: Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
📖 Current read: Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
📖 Last book added to TBR: Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson
📖 Next read: The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey (my final Read Harder task!!)
#booksky
📖 Last book read: Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
📖 Current read: Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
📖 Last book added to TBR: Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson
📖 Next read: The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey (my final Read Harder task!!)
#booksky
August 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Bookish checkpoint!
📖 Last book read: Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
📖 Current read: Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
📖 Last book added to TBR: Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson
📖 Next read: The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey (my final Read Harder task!!)
#booksky
📖 Last book read: Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
📖 Current read: Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
📖 Last book added to TBR: Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson
📖 Next read: The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey (my final Read Harder task!!)
#booksky
FINALLY went to the DC area’s new romance bookstore, Friends to Lovers in Old Town Alexandria. It was a wonderland. I had to be very strict with myself in limiting my purchases. #romancelandia
August 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
FINALLY went to the DC area’s new romance bookstore, Friends to Lovers in Old Town Alexandria. It was a wonderland. I had to be very strict with myself in limiting my purchases. #romancelandia
People have been talking about the Billy Joel documentary all over the place, yet no one prepared me for this completely badass look on Elizabeth Weber, his first wife/manager.
July 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
People have been talking about the Billy Joel documentary all over the place, yet no one prepared me for this completely badass look on Elizabeth Weber, his first wife/manager.
Best. mail. EVER.
If you want your own NC Reader, preorder now! It officially publishes on September 9. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
If you want your own NC Reader, preorder now! It officially publishes on September 9. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
July 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Best. mail. EVER.
If you want your own NC Reader, preorder now! It officially publishes on September 9. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
If you want your own NC Reader, preorder now! It officially publishes on September 9. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Though the image only mentions the Authors Guild, that suit has been combined with the lawsuit brought by @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Full PDF is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Full PDF is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Though the image only mentions the Authors Guild, that suit has been combined with the lawsuit brought by @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Full PDF is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Full PDF is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...