Blum’s Tours Campuses to Discuss Du Bois
02/06/2008
This month, Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, will visit campuses across the country to discuss the legacy of the renown scholar and activist…. READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
Sacks Guides NYT through Historic San Juan Hill
02/05/2008
Marcy Sacks, author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, guides New York Times reporter John Strausbaugh through the Manhattan’s San Juan Hill… READ MORE
Jackson’s Book Part of new MLK “Scholarly Synthesis”
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
Race and the Cherokee Nation–Now Available
12/21/2007
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Fay A. Yarbrough 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Madison Avenue and the Color Line–Now Available
12/20/2007
Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Jason Chambers 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4047-4 | $39.95… READ MORE
Goudie Wins MLA Prize for a First Book
12/04/2007
The Modern Language Association of America is awarding its fourteenth annual Prize for a First Book to Sean X. Goudie for Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of… READ MORE
John Wood Sweet, HNN Top Young Historian
11/20/2007
History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE
Ripping away the False Curtain
11/13/2007
More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE
From Abolition to Rights for All–Now Available
10/01/2007
From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century John T. Cumbler 280 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4026-9… READ MORE
This Is Our Music is a Choice Essential
09/17/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson earned an "Essential" summing up in the September volume of Choice magazine. "Anderson provides an excellent… READ MORE
