10/08/2013
Congratulations to Mirjam Zadoff. Her book, Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture won this year’s Salo Baron Prize the best first book in Jewish studies…. READ MORE
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
08/28/2013
"Collective memories and historical interpretations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom run the spectrum from liberal triumphalism to radical disillusionment. Both views distort the multiple meanings… READ MORE
08/27/2013
As foreign policy watchers consider the implications of Secretary of State John Kerry's latest statements on the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, many people are questioning America's readiness for… READ MORE
08/19/2013
Penn Press Consulting Editor Damon Linker has sobering words for progressive Catholics. According to "Pope Francis Versus the Vatican: the Battle to Remake the Church," Linker's article for the New… READ MORE
08/12/2013
Someone at New Books Network likes us. They've just posted two new interviews with Penn Press biography authors. Heath Brown interviewed Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern… READ MORE
08/09/2013
Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia Eric Gordy 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4535-6 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume… READ MORE
07/19/2013
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade Edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus…. READ MORE
07/12/2013
Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts Susanna Drake 192 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4520-2 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
07/02/2013
To anyone who has followed American labor law in the last fifteen years or so, the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Vance v. Ball State University is full of irony. Indeed, the Court’s new, narrow definition of “supervisor” does not simply limit the liability of companies in discrimination cases. It also stands in stark contrast to the much broader definition that conservatives have pushed in the context of the National Labor Relations Act, where the designation “supervisor” can be used to bar workers from unionizing.
