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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
@uvapress.bsky.social"A gripping tale that encompasses famine, indentured labor, numerous ships, saloons and jails, and of course the spectacular prize fights that made Sullivan a nineteenth-century celebrity." —Kasia Boddy, University of Cambridge, author of Boxing: A Cultural History
@uvapress.bsky.socialHappy #pubday to "Prizefighter: Yankee Sullivan and the Hands That Built the Modern World" by Patrick Griffin!
The globetrotting champion of the oppressed who shook his fist at the world in an era of profound change
@uvapress.bsky.socialTomorrow!
@uvapress.bsky.social"Architectural historians do not spend much time discussing the lives, ideas, and experiences of construction workers even though construction laborers are essential for the production of building."
Read an interview with Dwight Carey: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
@uvapress.bsky.socialCongratulations as well to Ann M. Lucas, whose chapter “The Monticello Image in the American Mind: Fiske and Marie Kimball Curate Thomas Jefferson’s Home” in Fiske and Marie Kimball: Shaping Public Engagement with Architecture and the Arts received an honorable mention!
@uvapress.bsky.socialCongrats to Kathleen Powers Conti, whose chapter “Beyond the Absence: Recovering the Architectural Imprints of Slavery at Virginia’s Berkeley Plantation” in Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions has been awarded the 2026 SESAH Publication Award for an Essay!
@uvapress.bsky.socialHappy #pubday to "The Island of Bound Masters: Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius" by Dwight Carey!
How enslaved workers provided the labor as well as the architectural expertise needed to build and sustain Mauritius
@uvapress.bsky.social"I’ve loved cemeteries since I was a child, loved walking historic burial grounds, reading the names and the strange little verses engraved on stones."
Read an interview with Kim Roberts Meikle: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
@uvapress.bsky.social"Many of the forces we label in urban development today — the things we now describe with the term 'gentrification' — have roots stretching back centuries."
Read an interview with Kathryn K. Lasdow: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
@amybertsch.bsky.socialReposted by @uvapress.bsky.socialHappy LGBTQ+ History Month! On Oct 14, I'll discuss the "Remarkable Visibility of Hannah Nokes" in Old Town Alexandria. Will be selling and signing "Queer Virginia" from @uvapress.bsky.social and giving away mini-zines, stickers + magnets alexlibraryva.org/event/17224672 #TransHistory #LGBTQHistory
@uvapress.bsky.socialThe Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2026 Conference is underway in Savannah, Georgia!
Visit the virtual exhibit, and use code 10SESAH26 for 40% off books below through October 15th!
@uvapress.bsky.socialHappy #pubday to "Wharfed Out: Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront" by Kathryn K. Lasdow!
How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistance
@uvapress.bsky.socialHappy #pubday to "The District’s Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries" by Kim Roberts Meikle!
The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation’s capital
@uvapress.bsky.socialOnly later did people begin "to view the American Revolution as a much more revolutionary event than it had been and that its main protagonists and leaders had wanted it to be."
Read an interview with Anna Vincenzi: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
@uvapress.bsky.socialUVA Press is saddened to learn of the passing of author Charles Trueheart: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...,
@uvapress.bsky.socialMatthew Mason @matthewmason.bsky.social, author of "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast!
@uvapress.bsky.social"Despite differences over foreign and domestic policy, even within the same political party, opponents can forge alliances that can help them solve social and economic problems if they can find room for compromise."
Read an interview with Barbara A. Perry: upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
@uvapress.bsky.socialHappy #pubday to "Echoes of a Distant Republic" by Anna Vincenzi!
How the American and French Revolutions were interpreted in the Italian states and how that understanding helped redefine the concept of revolution itself
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @uvapress.bsky.social"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
– William Faulkner, Light in August
For more about Faulkner, check out @jackewilson.bsky.social's talk with author Carl Rollyson.
#botd #books #literature #faulkner @uvapress.bsky.social
@uvapress.bsky.socialThe 2026 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Conference is underway!
Visit our virtual exhibit and use code 10ASALH26 for 40% off select books through October 15th!
