Black History Month

Black History Month


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.

Through the end of February we’re offering a special discount on all titles in the collection! Use code PENN-BHM2025 at checkout for 40% off all paperbacks and hardcovers, plus free shipping on orders over $40. And use code PENN-BHM2025-E for 50% off all available ebook editions! (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.)

 

Freedom's Currency

Julia Wallace Bernier

Poisoned Relations

Chelsea Berry

Time for Reparations

Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, Caroline Elkins

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

Force and Freedom

Kellie Carter Jackson

Fictions of Consent

Urvashi Chakravarty

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

Selling Antislavery

Teresa A. Goddu

Revolutions and Reconstructions

Van Gosse, David Waldstreicher

Represented

Brenna Wynn Greer

The Rising Generation

Sarah L. H. Gronningsater

The Alchemy of Slavery

M. Scott Heerman

Wicked Flesh

Jessica Marie Johnson

Black Elders

Frederick Knight

Captive City

Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Freedom's Horizon

Isadora Moura Mota

Scripts of Blackness

Noémie Ndiaye

This Is My Jail

Melanie Newport

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L. Palmer

Beyond 1619

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

Contracting Freedom

Maria L. Quintana

Slavery in the North

Marc Howard Ross

The World That Fear Made

Jason T. Sharples

In This Land of Plenty

Benjamin Talton

Bad Blood

Emily Weissbourd

Black Metaphors

Cord J. Whitaker

Belonging

Gloria McCahon Whiting

University City

Laura Wolf-Powers