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418 years ago today, Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—was established. You can learn more about this event's importance to English society and early American history in Misha Ewen's book THE VIRGINIA VENTURE: bit.ly/4delPpE

🌟 After two years of planning and preparation, the new AAIHS journal Global Black Thought has officially launched! See the link below to learn more and download the featured articles. Penn Press aaihs.org/the-launch-of-…

Announcing the launch of Global Black Thought, a new journal from AAIHS & Penn Press! Learn more about the journal's background, its inaugural issue available now, and what the future holds in a Q&A with Founding Editor-in-Chief Dr. Keisha N. Blain on our blog: bit.ly/4jXcVPW

ICYMI: Earlier this week on the blog, we celebrated World Cocktail Day with an espresso martini recipe & a history lesson about coffee's place in American and European culture from author Michelle McDonald (COFFEE NATION, out this month) bit.ly/4mdPMdN

"Mr. Rudenstine writes cogently about the problems besetting higher education," writes Paula Marantz Cohen in her review of OUR CONTENTIOUS UNIVERSITIES for WSJ Books Section. on.wsj.com/4dgfkmm

ICYMI: Global Black Thought, the new journal from Penn Press and AAIHS, has its first issue out now! Read this Q&A with Founding Editor-in-Chief Dr. Keisha N. Blain on our blog to learn more. bit.ly/4jXcVPW

Author Michelle McDonald will discuss her new book COFFEE NATION, which illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early US to the wider Atlantic world, at a hybrid virtual/in-person event hosted by Am Phil Society on June 5. Register now! bit.ly/3EJWveD

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ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from AAIHS and Penn Press, is now available on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806

New review of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World Penn Press in the latest issue of "Renaissance and reformation." Thanks to Jonathan Locke Hart jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renr…

Elise Lemire's book BLACK WALDEN partially inspired an art exhibit at Concord, MA's Umbrella Arts Center honoring the historical Black community of Walden Pond and the surrounding woods. Learn more in this report from WBUR! wbur.fm/4kq8FZa

Our spring issue is online now! Have you perused the TOC? 🌷 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54744

We'll miss seeing ACLA attendees in person this year, but the link below will give you access to discounts on books from ACMRS Press Duke University Press LSU Press Penn Press Polity Rutgers University Press Stanford Press University of Texas Press and weslpress #ACLA2025 scholarschoice.com/Portals/schola…

NEXT WEEK: Michelle McDonald will discuss her forthcoming book COFFEE NATION, which illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early US to the wider Atlantic world, in a hybrid event at the Am Phil Society on Thursday, June 5. Register today! bit.ly/3EJWveD

Check out the newest titles in our Penn Press series, Jewish Cultures and Contexts, examining the interaction between modern media and Jewish life. katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

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Don't miss Michelle Craig McDonald of the Am Phil Society discussing her new book COFFEE NATION, which illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early US to the wider Atlantic world, in a Reddit AMA on AskHistorians today! Follow along here: bit.ly/3HkKv4d

WATCH: Author Roni Henig discusses her book ON REVIVAL, which offers a critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature, in a Library Chat with Gil Hochberg, now viewable via the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. ideasimagination.columbia.edu/cahiers/on-rev…

The latest issue of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, the journal from our friends at Am Phil Society, reprints a 1939 symposium on totalitarianism. Read the introduction now, free for a limited time via Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

From the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, an announcement of the launch of Global Black Thought, our new journal with AAIHS! jbhe.com/2025/06/univer…