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
Category: 20th-Century History and Culture
Challenging Inaction, Sustaining Life: South African HIV/AIDS Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic
04/17/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of… 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
The Secret History of Lesbian Desire in Postwar American Marriage
01/14/2020
Today we have a guest post from Lauren Jae Gutterman, who teaches American studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is author of Her Neighbor's Wife: A History… 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
What would Hillary do? Try the opposite!
08/15/2019
Today, we have a guest post from Boris Vormann, Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin, and Christian Lammert, Professor of North American Politics and Policy at Freie Universität Berlin…. READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2019 catalog!
08/09/2019
Exciting new titles this season include: Her Neighbor’s Wife by Lauren Jae Gutterman, which traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in… READ MORE
Getting Naked Outside to Feel Good Inside: Nude Summer Travel
08/06/2019
Today's guest post comes to us from Sarah Schrank, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and author of Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of… READ MORE
Charles Péguy: Past, present, and future
07/23/2019
Today, we have a guest post from Matthew Maguire, Associate Professor of History and Catholic Studies at DePaul University and author of Carnal Spirit: The Revolutions of Charles Péguy, new… READ MORE
Evangelicals and Holy Land Tourism
07/16/2019
This guest post comes from Daniel G. Hummel, author of Covenant Brothers Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations. Hummel's book portrays the dramatic rise of evangelical Christian Zionism as it gained… READ MORE
