A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic–Now Available
03/16/2011
A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic Andrew J. Lewis 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4308-6 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Beneke and Grenda’s The First Prejudice on the Religion and American History Blog
02/21/2011
The Religion and American History Blog recently posted an interview with Chris Beneke, co-editor with Christopher S. Grenda of The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America. In… READ MORE
James M. Powell
02/03/2011
University of Pennsylvania Press staff members were saddened by news of the death of .James M. Powell, Professor of History Emeritus at Syracuse University. Powell wrote Anatomy of a Crusade,… READ MORE
Thomas Sizgorich
01/31/2011
We at Penn Press were shocked and saddened by the news of the death of Thomas Sizgorich, author of Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and… READ MORE
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History–Now Available
01/25/2011
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition Edited by Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow 424 pages | 6 x 9 | 16… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses
11/01/2010
In the latest Penn Press podcast, Anne Trubek of Oberlin College recounts her visits to America's many literary house museums. Trubek shares her insights on sites including Walt Whitman's home… READ MORE
Stanley Fish in Philadelphia Tomorrow
10/29/2010
As part of the homecoming weekend celebration, the Penn Bookstore will host reknown scholar Stanley Fish for a special discussion of The Fugitive, the classic TV show in which Dr…. READ MORE
Anne Trubek Comes to the Kelly Writers House
10/21/2010
It's only natural that Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, is coming to the Kelly Writers House tomorrow at noon for an Arts Crawl Lunch Talk…. READ MORE
Hobbins Talk on “Publishing Before Print” Tonight
10/04/2010
Today at 5:15 p.m., Daniel Hobbins will be offering a talk on "Publishing Before Print: How Jean Gerson Reached a Massive Market of Readers Before Gutenberg" in the Martin and… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Three Researchers from the Penn Museum on Sustainable Lifeways
10/01/2010
In the October Penn Press podcast, Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss human strategies for coping… READ MORE
