2026 IndePENNdence Day Sale

What do you get for the 250-year-old who has everything?

Celebrate America’s big birthday with a sale on Philadelphia-themed titles, now through July 20th. As the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia and its people are integral to our nation’s history as well as its present. From a history of the city’s cuisine to the rise and fall of the 1980 Phillies to the lived experiences of Philly residents over hundreds of years, these titles cover Philadelphia’s social, cultural, and political impact on the nation’s history.
 
For hardcover and ebook formats, enjoy 50% off with the code PENN250 at checkout. Paperback copies (when available) will be a festive $17.76, with the discount automatically applied when you add them to the cart!

The Greater Philadelphia Region

Howard Gillette Jr., Carolyn T. Adams

Greater Philadelphia and the Nation

Charlene Mires, Jean R. Soderlund

Women Healers

Susan H. Brandt

Two Hundred Years

David R. Brigham

Undoing Slavery

Kathleen M. Brown

The Perennial Philadelphians

Nathaniel Burt, Roger W. Moss

The Other Philadelphia Story

Ram A. Cnaan, Stephanie C. Boddie, Charlene C. McGrew, Jennifer Kang

A Philadelphia Family

David R. Contosta, E. Digby Baltzell

Up South

Matthew J. Countryman

The Peoples of Philadelphia

Allen F. Davis, Mark H. Haller

The Philadelphia Negro

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

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, Peter Conn, Amy Gutmann

Ed Bacon

Gregory L. Heller, Alexander Garvin

Philadelphia Stories

C. Dallett Hemphill, Rodney Hessinger, Daniel K. Richter

The Middle-Class City

John Henry Hepp IV

Occupied America

Donald F. Johnson

Philadelphia

Paul Kahan

Almost a Dynasty

William C. Kashatus

W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City

Michael B. Katz, Thomas J. Sugrue

Imagining Philadelphia

Scott Gabriel Knowles

Getting Work

Walter Licht

The Killers

George Lippard, Matt Cohen, Edlie L. Wong

Blue-Collar Conservatism

Timothy J. Lombardo

Historic Real Estate

Whitney Martinko

Mobilization Politics

Stephen J. McGovern

Philadelphia Trees

Paul Meyer, Edward Barnard, Catriona Bull Briger, William Cullina

Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia

Roger W. Moss, Tom Crane

First City

Gary B. Nash

God Almighty Hisself

Mitchell Nathanson

Embodied History

Simon P. Newman

Mayor

Michael A. Nutter

Bring Out Your Dead

J. H. Powell, Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, Anna Coxe Toogood

Becoming Penn

John L. Puckett, Mark Lloyd

Slavery in the North

Marc Howard Ross

Design After Decline

Brent D. Ryan

The Revolution Is Now Begun

Richard Alan Ryerson

The Ecology of Homicide

Eric C. Schneider

Lenape Country

Jean R. Soderlund

Penn's Sylvania

Frederick Steiner, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt, Susan Weiler

The Disaffected

Aaron Sullivan

Frank Furness

George E. Thomas, Alan Hess

The Private City

Sam Bass Warner Jr.

Pepperpot City

William Woys Weaver

University City

Laura Wolf-Powers

Not All Wives

Karin Wulf