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From the Scholarly Kitchen (January 18, 2023):
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"Today’s guest post is a recap of the recent SSP webinar, “Ask the Experts: AI in Publishing”, held on October 6, 2022 by the moderator, Anita de Waard, who is VP of Research Collaborations at Elsevier.
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we continue our conversation with Evan C. Rothera to talk about his new book, Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880, published by the Louisiana State University Press in September 2022.
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In the latest Perspectives on History, editor Allison Miller tells the fascinating story of the Multigraph Collective, a group of 22 book historians and print scholars from Canada, the US, and the UK interested in the materiality and interactivity of reading who employed a radical form of electronic collaboration to produce the jointly composed and edited "multigraph,"
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Amy C. Sullivan. Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 288 pp. $18.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4529-6255-9; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1467-7.
Reviewed by Robert Beach (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (January, 2023) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
