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Discipline Problems

Discipline Problems

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history classes leave out events like the genocide and dispossession...
The Driver’s Story

The Driver’s Story

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor...
The First Last Man

The First Last Man

Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature—Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her...

Penn Press & The APS Press

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is the oldest learned society in the United States, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” The APS is currently relaunching its publishing program, and Penn Press is partnering with the APS Press to distribute and market scholarly books and journals.

Series Spotlight: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster

Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster is a new book series that explores how environmental, technological, and health risks are created, managed, and analyzed in different contexts. Global in scope and drawing on perspectives from multiple disciplines, volumes in the series examine the ways that planning, science, and technology are implicated in disasters.

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

The Transactions is the oldest scholarly publication in the country, covering various fields of study, ranging from eighteenth-century American history…

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Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation fosters theoretical and interpretive research on all aspects of Western culture from 1660 to…

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Journal of the History of Ideas

Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas has served as a medium for the publication…

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