Susan Ferber
Executive editor for American and world history @ Oxford University Press in NY * baker * tea drinker * coxswain * Yorkie servant. Contact me about books at susan.ferber@oup.com. No DM pitches, please. (All opinions my own.)
- Reposted by Susan FerberThank you @myhnn.bsky.social for featuring this except from Chapter 7, “Founders on Foundings” from my book _Lineage_ about the many forms of genealogy’s power in early America.
- Reposted by Susan FerberIt begins! Have already enjoyed talking about _Lineage_ with a few groups in Philly (twice!) and here in RI, but this month I'm headed to several venues. Starting close to home, and in conversation w the wonderful Morgan Grefe, Exec Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
- Happy Publication Day to Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social and congratulations on Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America! Wulf transforms “mostly-forgotten books into vibrant accounts of forgotten pasts,” says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Learn more: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Susan FerberThe National Archives research facility in College Park, MD, is a national treasure, offering interested members of the general public an unparalleled direct look at the workings of the federal government. This decision is deeply anti-democratic and anti-intellectual — in a word, fascistic.
- History peeps: Is scholarly research legitimate? Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public.
- Reposted by Susan FerberToday is the day! Kevin Hayes' new book "Undaunted Mind" takes you straight into the library and mind of America's favorite founding kite-flyer, Benjamin Franklin: oxford.ly/4dgAO2B #Skystory
- Missing seeing you all at #LASA2025. Check out our new titles, and be in touch about your new history projects.
- Hello #LASA2025 attendees! 👋 We’re sadly not attending @lasabluesky.bsky.social this year, but we've still got you covered. We invite you to explore our curated list of #LatinStudies titles: oxford.ly/3SIe5CV And the best part? You save 30% with code EXLATI25, valid until 9 June.
- Congratulations on your glittering teaching career and retirement, @Samuel Freedman! You have done so much to train @columbiajournalism.bsky.social students and non-fiction authors and as an @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author yourself. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...
- Congratulations, Brown Band, on 100 years and to all the new graduates! What a blast it is to perform again with my fellow alumni piccolodeans (and Jon Batiste!) at Brown University Commencement. Ever true! #BrownU #Brown2025
- Congratulations, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, Brown University ‘91 and @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author, on receiving an honorary doctorate of letters at Commencement! Ever true. #BrownU #Brown2025
- I wholeheatedly stand behind the National Endowment for the Humanities and am proud of the historic role Brown University has played in ensuring that humanities have a central role in our national culture.
- Absolutely thrilled that Ashley Brown, an @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, has won the Huntington Library’s Shapiro Book Prize for best first book in American history. She follows R. Isabela Morales’s win for Happy Dreams of Liberty. Kudos!
- Reposted by Susan FerberA book talk at the Spy Museum was a dream come true! For those interested in American intelligence history, the talk will be on the museum’s YouTube page and the book is available now in hardcover or on Kindle! a.co/d/1Qzuzof
- Reposted by Susan FerberDelighted to see @theatlantic.com cover my book, The Spy and the State, and its central question. The book is out now! a.co/d/9DWUcpO
- Reposted by Susan Ferber***New book about Jews and religious freedom in the founding of the United States*** A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner global.oup.com/academic/pro...
