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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 14

We spoke to Michael Ansara, author of THE HARD WORK OF HOPE, about why he believes organizing is the key to success in helping to bring about change and his time-tested practical advice for everyday Americans seeking to make a difference. ow.ly/BFKF50Wpxif

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · 22 h

What do King Arthur, Aesop’s fables, and #medieval #Hebrew have in common? READING ACROSS CULTURES by Caroline Gruenbaum uncovers a surprising literary world where #Jewish writers translated #Christian tales into Hebrew. Start exploring: ow.ly/Ai4M50Wm3mj

CornellPress's tweet card. Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz—the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 23

Can you admire a writer and still question his #politics? READING FAITHFULLY by Lindsay Ceballos explores how #Russian critics reshaped Dostoevsky for a new era of change and #controversy. His work still raises urgent questions today. #SilverAge ow.ly/w8hn50Wlpzy

CornellPress's tweet card. Reading Faithfully reveals how Russian critics of the Silver Age (the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) reread and remade Fyodor Dostoevsky for their era of religious renewal amid a...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 22

AUTHOR EVENT: Thursday (7/24) at 2 pm at the Chautauqua Institution with Claudia Strauss, author of What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic @chq #ILRPress #WorkEthic See this book: ow.ly/gGEV50WtBFI Event info: ow.ly/emJW50WtBFE

CornellPress's tweet image. AUTHOR EVENT: Thursday (7/24) at 2 pm at the Chautauqua Institution with Claudia Strauss, author of What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic

@chq #ILRPress #WorkEthic

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 22

From heartbreak to healing, @MichaelAnsara's THE HARD WORK OF HOPE reminds us that hope isn't just wishful thinking— it's a daily choice and a powerful force for change. Available now: ow.ly/8jJu50WtwA1 #CivilRights #VietnamWar #StudentMovement #Activism #Organizing…

CornellPress's tweet image. From heartbreak to healing, @MichaelAnsara's THE HARD WORK OF HOPE reminds us that hope isn't just wishful thinking— it's a daily choice and a powerful force for change.

Available now: ow.ly/8jJu50WtwA1

#CivilRights #VietnamWar #StudentMovement #Activism #Organizing…

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 22

A hidden prison system. Decades of silence. UNSILENCING by Lilia Topouzova exposes #Bulgaria’s secret forced labor camps and the fight to confront a past no one wanted to remember. It is a #history everyone should know. ow.ly/Ojbv50Wlpvw

CornellPress's tweet card. Unsilencing provides the first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forced-labor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Lilia Topouzova uncovers...

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Medieval Updates@MedievalUpdates · Jul 21

Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner (@CornellPress, July 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalchristianity #medievalculture #medievalpower

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 21

The Jet Age promised freedom. But for #women in the skies, it wasn’t that simple. WOMEN AND THE JET AGE by Phil Tiemeyer reveals how stewardesses worldwide navigated sexism, #politics, and their fight for dignity at 30,000 feet. See the hidden #history: ow.ly/ETbf50Wlpq0

CornellPress's tweet card. Women and the Jet Age is a global history of postwar aviation that examines how states nurtured airlines for competing political and economic goals during the Cold War. While previous histories...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 18

The #global economy survives crisis after crisis, but not because of luck. BANKERS' TRUST by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe reveals the hidden #power of personal relationships between central #bank leaders. Trust isn’t just personal. It can save the world. ow.ly/4Oyx50WlpoL

CornellPress's tweet card. In Bankers' Trust, Aditi Sahasrabuddhe reveals a crucial element behind the resolution of global financial crises: trust between central bank leaders. Central bank cooperation during global financi...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 17

Before apps and #dating sites, there were… tiny ads in the newspaper. BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Hannah Frydman uncovers how people in Belle Époque Paris used them to find #love, desire, and lives outside the rules. #LGBTQ The hidden #history starts here: ow.ly/QLv850Wlpj2

CornellPress's tweet card. Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 16

Congrats to @MichaelAnsara, author of THE HARD WORK OF HOPE, on a successful book launch event last night at @HarvardBooks! See his book: ow.ly/k6jq50WqQwo ow.ly/LRz950WqQwk

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 16

What if #space wasn’t meant for war but for peace? THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND by Stephen Buono reveals how, even in the #ColdWar, world leaders imagined space as a sanctuary beyond #politics. #MustRead The real space story starts here: ow.ly/BhuN50Wlpgm

CornellPress's tweet card. The Province of All Mankind is the story of a powerful idea about the cosmos. Born in the science-fiction literature of the nineteenth century and maturing in the Age of Apollo, this idea held that...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 15

Learn more about THE HARD WORK OF HOPE here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178…

TThe Progressive@theprogressive · Jul 15

Michael Ansara’s memoir, The Hard Work of Hope, proves the point. His insightful reflection looks back on the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and campus movements of the 1960s and 1970s, gleaning lessons that will likely inspire today’s activists. #protest progressive.org/latest/michael…

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 15

Secret letters. Big ideas. One of history’s most #controversial thinkers. LETTERS FROM ROUSSEAU, edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly, reveals personal and #political messages never meant to stay private. Some never translated before. Read more: ow.ly/uzFz50WlpbX

CornellPress's tweet card. Letters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before,...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 14

As we navigate the increasingly complex national security challenges of 2025, Joshua Rovner’s work Fixing the Facts: National #Security and the #Politics of Intelligence remains more relevant than ever. Read now on the #BacklistBlog: ow.ly/X0UC50Wpx7K

CornellPress's tweet image. As we navigate the increasingly complex national security challenges of 2025, Joshua Rovner’s work Fixing the Facts: National #Security and the #Politics of Intelligence remains more relevant than ever.

Read now on the #BacklistBlog: ow.ly/X0UC50Wpx7K

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 14

The margins were never empty. MICROLITERATURES by Jesús R. Velasco uncovers the hidden world of #medieval readers who turned scribbles and side notes into a public, #political act. #Reading will never look the same. Start here: ow.ly/r9MP50WlpaC

CornellPress's tweet card. Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated,...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 11

What keeps a revolution alive? REPRODUCING REVOLUTION by Jenny Hedström reveals how women’s everyday labor fuels the fight in #Myanmar. Childcare, #farming, even survival itself become #political. #FeministReads Discover the untold side of #revolution: ow.ly/r6K450Wlpai

CornellPress's tweet card. In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanma...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 10

What happens when #history gets reimagined to serve #politics ? PERSISTENT ILLUSIONS by Nóra Veszprémi uncovers how images of the past shaped #Hungary ’s future in the interwar years. The pictures may be old but the ideas? Still with us. See more here: ow.ly/hAC650Wlp8Z

CornellPress's tweet card. Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In...

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 9

Michael Ansara, author of THE HARD WORK OF HOPE, discusses lessons we can learn from the #CivilRights and anti-Vietnam War movements--and what's different now. @MichaelAnsara #NewBooks See this book: ow.ly/fnVJ50Wn6sR Watch @TheCaseMade now: ow.ly/OG9g50Wn6sS

CornellPress's tweet image. Michael Ansara, author of THE HARD WORK OF HOPE, discusses lessons we can learn from the #CivilRights and anti-Vietnam War movements--and what's different now.

@MichaelAnsara #NewBooks

See this book: ow.ly/fnVJ50Wn6sR

Watch @TheCaseMade now: ow.ly/OG9g50Wn6sS

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Cornell University Press@CornellPress · Jul 9

History, #power, myth and more. RADIANCES by Ernst Kantorowicz reveals unpublished essays from one of the greatest historical minds of the twentieth century. Coronations, icons, postage stamps. You’ll never look at #history the same way. Read more here: ow.ly/VxGb50Wlp7L

CornellPress's tweet card. Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly...

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