Changing attitudes on incest
05/15/2014
Today we have a guest post from Penn author Brian Connolly, whose new book, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America, gives a history of incest and… READ MORE
Category: 19th-Century History and Culture
Football, unions, and what it is to be an employee
04/08/2014
Spurred by the National Labor Relations Board's decision stating that Northwestern University's football players are actually university employees and thus able to unionize, the Inquirer ran a story on Sunday… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Empire of the Vines, plus Moral Minority Now in Paperback
01/09/2014
Here are some of the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. Purchase it now at www.pennpress.org or look for it at your favorite bookseller. Empire of Vines: Wine Culture… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: India in the Chinese Imagination, The People’s Network, and Independence Hall in American Memory
12/20/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. India in the Chinese… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: In Light of Another’s Word, No Use, Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, and Ethnography in Today’s World
12/13/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. In Light of Another's… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Political Creativity, Rethinking the American City, Louisiana, and The Heart and Stomach of a King
11/15/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Cutting Along the Color Line and Hasanlu V, Plus 3 New Paperback Releases
11/08/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Cutting Along the Color… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Dangerously Sleepy, Seasons of Misery, In My Mother’s House, and Why Don’t American Cities Burn?
10/31/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Electing the President 2012, Nothing Natural is Shameful, and Biography and the Black Atlantic
10/18/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Nothing Natural Is Shameful:… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Blind Impressions, The Breakthrough, and Toronto
09/27/2013
Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History Joseph A. Dane 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4549-3 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
