Hot Off Penn Press: July’s New Books
08/05/2015
Don't look now, but fall is just a few short weeks away. Distract yourself with the latest books from Penn Press. To receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign… READ MORE
Category: 18th-Century History and Culture
Announcing our Fall 2015 catalog
07/24/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2015 catalog. This season's offerings include Margaret O'Mara's Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century; the fourth… READ MORE
Paul’s Picks: Read a free article from Penn journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
07/23/2015
Here at Penn Press we are rightly known for the depth and quality of scholarship we publish in book form. But Penn also publishes more than a dozen top-quality scholarly… READ MORE
Chaos in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic’s Resolution 168/13 and the slipperiness of citizenship
07/22/2015
Today we have a guest post by Margaret Walton-Roberts, coeditor of The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. This post is an expanded version of one that originally appeared… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: March’s New Books
04/08/2015
Spring in Philadelphia is tentative, to say the least, but there's nothing tentative about the books we published last month! Read on to see new offerings in American History, Political… READ MORE
Watch Andrew O’Shaughnessy, author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
02/11/2015
Recently, our author Alexander Jackson O'Shaughnessy was featured in two videos, discussing his book, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, from 2000. The first was an… READ MORE
Download the Spring 2015 catalog now
01/09/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Jeannine Marie DeLombard, In the Shadow of the Gallows
12/22/2014
Our final Author Q&A of 2014 is with Jeannine Marie DeLombard, author of In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity, which is out now in paperback. From Puritan… READ MORE
Author Q&A: James J. Gigantino II, The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865
12/19/2014
James Gigantino is the author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865. Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Colin Jager, Unquiet Things
12/11/2014
Colin Jager is the author of Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age. In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was… READ MORE
