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		<title>Learning through Curating: An Annotated Assignment Outline for Projects or Essays</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Lastoria]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who cares? When I was a student, that was my first thought in nearly all my history courses. Now, as something of an accidental historian, I can relate to students who have not (yet) been bitten by a history bug. Students’ apathy is a challenge to overcome. In the earliest days of my teaching career [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Call for Applicants: SHARP News Book Reviews Editors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SHARP News is the open-access newsletter for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). The terms at SHARP News for our Reviews Editors, Madeline Zehnder and Jolie Braun, will be finishing in January 2027 – thank you so much, Madeline and Jolie, for your invaluable contributions these past three years! Consequently, SHARP [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SHARP News publishes a range of bibliographies beyond its Annual Bibliography: publishing bibliographies on special themes such as paper, accessibility, and queer studies; bibliographies dedicated to dissertations and theses; and location-specific bibliographies on South America, South Asia, and Africa. We are currently seeking expressions of interest from those who would be interested in working with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Using The Saint John’s Bible in Primary Source Instruction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holly Hoffmann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a class of twelve history students in an upper-level capstone class visiting the library. Many of them have been in a special collection or archive before, so the experience of stepping into a room full of old books isn’t as novel to them as it might be as a group of first years. Still, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>David Faflik. The Literary Gift in Early America.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cecile M. Jagodzinski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Faflik's book examines the gift book as a carrier of exchange—between giver and receiver, publisher and author, and author and reader—in the form of five reception histories.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Andrew Campana. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In "Expanding Verse," Andrew Campana takes us on a tour through modern Japanese poetry operating at the extreme margins of media.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Karen Wade. Mudie’s Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Finkelstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This small but perfectly formed paperback delves into the nineteenth-century role of Mudie’s Select Library in shaping British Victorian literary culture. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Evanghelia Stead. Goethe’s Faust I Outlined: Moritz Retzsch’s Prints in Circulation.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Wald]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stead’s book stands as the definitive treatment of its topic and blazes new methodological and interpretive paths in interdisciplinary publishing history, iconography, and reception studies.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vanessa Warne. By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Forget]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This volume explores blindness and culture in the nineteenth century predominantly in English-speaking contexts through the reading and writing habits of blind authors and literary characters. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, eds. Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trude Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A substantial and carefully assembled volume that brings together a wide range of current research, whose generous illustrations and clear technical descriptions make it a useful reference work as well as an engaging read. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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