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SALE: Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia

To celebrate the Independence Day holiday, we’re offering a special discount on Roger W. Moss’s Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia, a lavishly illustrated volume that showcases some of Philadelphia’s most prominent sights, including Independence Hall, Boathouse Row, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Academy of Music, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and many, many more!

Order your copy now with promo code HISTORIC30-FM and get 30% off plus free U.S. shipping!

Wicked Flesh—Paperback Coming Soon

Jessica Marie Johnson’s award-winning and groundbreaking book Wicked Flesh is coming in paperback from Penn Press this fall! Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern

An exciting new Penn Press series, RaceB4Race explores the ways race has been constructed and operates in the literature, history, and culture of the global West and beyond from antiquity to the eighteenth century.