Theresa Kaminski
@theresakaminski.bsky.social
Free-range historian specializing in scrappy women in American history. Book on Jane Grant and The New Yorker in progress. Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans out now.
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
As I work on finalizing the upcoming #ScholarSunday thread, we're also going to be collecting public scholarship from across 2025 for a year-end mega-thread. Check out the call & submit favorites (including your own work!) for inclusion in that thread, thanks! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
Announcements
If you have a talk coming up, a book on its way, a podcast trailer to drop, or an accomplishment to celebrate, we want to help you share it!
blackwhiteandread.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As I work on finalizing the upcoming #ScholarSunday thread, we're also going to be collecting public scholarship from across 2025 for a year-end mega-thread. Check out the call & submit favorites (including your own work!) for inclusion in that thread, thanks! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
For the #nonfiction fans.
Great variety on our list of 50 notable nonfiction books from the past year. Gift link: wapo.st/4887xEW
50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025
The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For the #nonfiction fans.
Indeed. #womenalsoknowhistory
Barnes & Noble has managed to put together a list of 23 "best" history books of 2025, 4.5 of which are authored by women. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
The Best History Books of 2025 - B&N Reads
Remember why history matters and let the past teach you about how people lived, fought for change and evolved. These are the best history books of 2025.
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Indeed. #womenalsoknowhistory
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Looking for more Civil War books to add to your shelf? Check out @cwmonitor.bsky.social's Best Civil War Books of 2025 featuring a bunch of UNC Press titles 👏
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
The Best Civil War Books of 2025
What were the best Civil War history books published in 2025? A panel of historians offers their picks.
www.civilwarmonitor.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Looking for more Civil War books to add to your shelf? Check out @cwmonitor.bsky.social's Best Civil War Books of 2025 featuring a bunch of UNC Press titles 👏
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
Today was a big book day for @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. Congratulations!
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Today was a big book day for @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. Congratulations!
For your perusing pleasure, a roundup of some of the new history books out this week! draftingthepast.com/new-releases...
This Week’s History Releases (Nov. 11, 2025) – Drafting the Past
draftingthepast.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! We're reading books by these folks (and more):
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social
msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social
msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
msmagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! We're reading books by these folks (and more):
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social
msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social
msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Revisiting one from the archives: the story of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones—who turned loss into activism and became a relentless advocate for American workers.
Read it here: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/09/02/from-the-archives-the-mother-jones-monument/ 🗃️
Read it here: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/09/02/from-the-archives-the-mother-jones-monument/ 🗃️
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Revisiting one from the archives: the story of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones—who turned loss into activism and became a relentless advocate for American workers.
Read it here: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/09/02/from-the-archives-the-mother-jones-monument/ 🗃️
Read it here: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/09/02/from-the-archives-the-mother-jones-monument/ 🗃️
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
If you’re at the American Society for Legal History conference this week, stop by and see our stellar new legal history books. Book exhibit opens today (11/13) at noon. @universitypress.cambridge.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you’re at the American Society for Legal History conference this week, stop by and see our stellar new legal history books. Book exhibit opens today (11/13) at noon. @universitypress.cambridge.org
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Here's a great article from acquisitions editors, in time for University Press Week:
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press
Publishing a book can be an isolated -- and isolating -- experience, but it doesn't have to be. Two university press editors share
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's a great article from acquisitions editors, in time for University Press Week:
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Fascinating essay by English professor Eve Dunbar about writer Alice Childress and her "monstrous work." Via @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/celebration-...
lithub.com/celebration-...
Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress
I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world wher…
lithub.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fascinating essay by English professor Eve Dunbar about writer Alice Childress and her "monstrous work." Via @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/celebration-...
lithub.com/celebration-...
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Interesting essay by Maria Kuznetsova about writing and publishing. #amwriting #authorlife
lithub.com/the-publishi...
lithub.com/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Gambled on Me… and Lost
Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interesting essay by Maria Kuznetsova about writing and publishing. #amwriting #authorlife
lithub.com/the-publishi...
lithub.com/the-publishi...
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
In the second century BCE, Egypt cut off papyrus exports to keep Pergamum’s library from competing. It didn’t work. The scholars invented parchment instead.
Librarians: 1. Monopoly: 0.
🗃️
Read more: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9 (Subscribe with you are there too!)
Librarians: 1. Monopoly: 0.
🗃️
Read more: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9 (Subscribe with you are there too!)
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In the second century BCE, Egypt cut off papyrus exports to keep Pergamum’s library from competing. It didn’t work. The scholars invented parchment instead.
Librarians: 1. Monopoly: 0.
🗃️
Read more: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9 (Subscribe with you are there too!)
Librarians: 1. Monopoly: 0.
🗃️
Read more: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9 (Subscribe with you are there too!)
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Important CFP!
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Important CFP!
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Here at 11:11 on November 11th, here's my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on the heroic, tragic, vitally American story & truths behind the iconic WWII soldier & veteran Ira Hayes. Please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
Considering History: The Heroic, Tragic, Very American Ballad of Ira Hayes | The Saturday Evening Post
On this Veterans Day, no figure more clearly offers an inclusive vision of American history and identity than does Ira Hayes.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here at 11:11 on November 11th, here's my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on the heroic, tragic, vitally American story & truths behind the iconic WWII soldier & veteran Ira Hayes. Please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Some of you seem to have failed to cultivate a thirst for vengeance. It's not how I raised you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Some of you seem to have failed to cultivate a thirst for vengeance. It's not how I raised you.
It's #ScholarSunday day!
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It's #ScholarSunday day!
A super event Women Writing History at the Main Hall @immaireland.bsky.social as part of the fabulous Dublin Book Festival @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
Thank you to @dublinbookfest.bsky.social & speakers @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social & writers Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan
Thank you to @dublinbookfest.bsky.social & speakers @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social & writers Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today is the first day of my retirement that I regret not being in a workplace. #ruinaworkplace
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today is the first day of my retirement that I regret not being in a workplace. #ruinaworkplace
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Excited to join historians @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!
Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Excited to join historians @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!
Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!
Reposted by Theresa Kaminski
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
A reminder for those of us in the #writinglife.
“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
William Zinsser #NationalAuthorsDay
William Zinsser #NationalAuthorsDay
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A reminder for those of us in the #writinglife.