Highlights from Our Women’s History Month Collection!
03/15/2023
March is Women’s History Month, and Penn Press is marking the occasion by offering 40% off all books in our collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have… READ MORE
Category: 19th-Century History and Culture
An Excerpt From The Kingdom and the Republic in Honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
05/12/2022
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and in commemoration, we’re sharing an excerpt from the Introduction to The Kingdom and the Republic by Noelani Arista. In the book, Arista uncovers… READ MORE
Women Healers: Always Essential Medical Workers
03/08/2022
In honor of Women’s History Month, Penn Press is excited to share a new blog post from Susan Brandt, author of Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia. Coming this… READ MORE
Redefining the Rare Book: An Interview on Andrew Stauffer’s Book Traces
03/11/2021
Today, we have an interview reposted from Books Tell You Why, featuring a discussion between Audrey Golden and author Andrew M. Stauffer, whose book Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2021 catalog!
03/04/2021
Exciting new titles this season include: • An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague, a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation’s… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2020 catalog!
09/02/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: • In Defense of Populism by Donald T. Critchlow, which argues, contrary to contemporary warnings about the dangers of populism, that grassroots activism is essential… READ MORE
Reading List: Race, policing, and protest
06/05/2020
In the past two weeks, tragic police killings of African Americans have once again sent shockwaves through the nation and have prompted a widespread and ongoing surge of activism. These… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2020 catalog!
02/14/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: Bank Notes and Shinplasters by Joshua R. Greenberg, which shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's… READ MORE
Exploring the Politics of Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
12/02/2019
Today, we have an exciting and topical guest post from Carol Faulkner, Professor of History at Syracuse University and author of Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America…. READ MORE
Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era
11/26/2019
Today, we have a guest post from Oded Y. Steinberg, fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and author… READ MORE
