Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War–Now in Paperback
08/25/2011
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution Matthew J. Clavin 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2009… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
Lucretia Mott was no Mild Mannered Quaker
08/03/2011
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Three
07/20/2011
The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Two
07/13/2011
Congratulations to Pinchus Roth of New York, week one's winner. Last week's question was a killer diller, but Roth rose to the occasion. The name of the actor who graces… READ MORE
It Don’t Mean One Thing
07/11/2011
Penn Press intern and social dancer Hannah Ehlenfeldt shares her thoughts on swing dance fashions past and present. Styles from the 1930s and 40s were revived in the 1990s, then… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week One
07/06/2011
It's time to play Name that Zoot, the best university press contest, north, south, east, or west. Take a look at the man on the cover of Zoot Suit: The… READ MORE
Coming Soon: The Name That Zoot Contest
06/28/2011
Greetings sharpies, zazous, pachucos, and pachucas! Get hep to this extreme fashion history contest. Each week in July, Penn Press will give away a copy of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic… READ MORE
A Penn Press Podcast with Zoot Suit Author Kathy Peiss
06/16/2011
The June 2011 podcast is all about one of the most outrageous fashions of the twentieth century, the zoot suit. As jazz music spread aruond the world, the zoot followed…. READ MORE
A Small Bench by the Side of the Road: Elise Lemire on Remembering Concord’s History of Slavery
06/15/2011
In this post, Penn Press author Elise Lemire describes a community's efforts to bring its history of slavery to light. A Small Bench by the Side of the Road Concord,… READ MORE
Praise for Two American History Books in the June Issue of Common-Place
06/09/2011
Who knew one of our books could have anything to do with a song by the band Arcade Fire? And who knew that Arcade Fire would ever be mentioned on… READ MORE
