Black History Month

Black History Month


The 2026 Black History Month promotion is now over — please return next year for an updated collection of titles & a new discount code!

February is Black History Month, which pays tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing the below collection of books in African American history and studies that we have released in the past five years, including forthcoming titles from our Spring 2026 season!

Through the end of February we’re offering a special discount on all titles in the collection! Use code PENN-BHM2026 at checkout for 40% off, plus free shipping on orders over $40. (Please note that our shopping cart does not allow preorders for the ebook editions of forthcoming titles. Learn more about buying and accessing Penn Press ebooks in our shopping cart guide.)

Plus, you can save $5 on an individual subscription to Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), when you use code GBT5 in the journals cart before the end of the month.

 

The Greater Philadelphia Region

Howard Gillette Jr., Carolyn T. Adams

Greater Philadelphia and the Nation

Charlene Mires, Jean R. Soderlund

Freedom's Currency

Julia Wallace Bernier

Poisoned Relations

Chelsea Berry

Time for Reparations

Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, Caroline Elkins

The Household War

John N. Blanton

Remaking the Republic

Christopher James Bonner

Freedom Enterprise

Kendra D. Boyd

Women Healers

Susan H. Brandt

Undoing Slavery

Kathleen M. Brown

The Driver’s Story

Randy M. Browne

The Black Republic

Brandon R. Byrd

Fictions of Consent

Urvashi Chakravarty

Up South

Matthew J. Countryman

She Changed the Nation

Mary Ellen Curtin

Discipline Problems

Tadashi Dozono

The Philadelphia Negro

W. E. B. Du Bois, Elijah Anderson, Isabel Eaton

Mastering Emotions

Erin Austin Dwyer

The Silver Women

Joan Flores-Villalobos

Star Territory

Gordon Fraser

Represented

Brenna Wynn Greer

The Rising Generation

Sarah L. H. Gronningsater

A Brotherhood of Liberty

Dennis Patrick Halpin

The Centrality of Slavery

John Craig Hammond

The Alchemy of Slavery

M. Scott Heerman

Wicked Flesh

Jessica Marie Johnson

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Black Elders

Frederick Knight

Black Power, Inc.

Jessica Ann Levy

Captive City

Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Freedom's Horizon

Isadora Moura Mota

Scripts of Blackness

Noémie Ndiaye

This Is My Jail

Melanie D. Newport

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L. Palmer

Dream the Size of Freedom

R. Joseph Parrott

Beyond 1619

Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner, Jesse Cromwell

Contracting Freedom

Maria L. Quintana

Slavery in the North

Marc Howard Ross

In This Land of Plenty

Benjamin Talton

Syd Carpenter

William R. Valerio

Bad Blood

Emily Weissbourd

Black Metaphors

Cord J. Whitaker

Belonging

Gloria McCahon Whiting

Black Excellence

Danielle Wiggins

University City

Laura Wolf-Powers