This Is Our Music–Now in Paperback
06/08/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3980-5 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet–Now Available
05/31/2007
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet Edward J. Blum 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE
Blum among HNN’s Top Young Historians
05/30/2007
History News Network recently added Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, to its list of Top Young Historians. According to HNN, "Each historian on… READ MORE
What Would Du Bois Say?: A Response to Hitchens and Dawkins
05/11/2007
A recent debate between Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton prompted the following essay from Penn Press author Edward J. Blum. Is God Great? Is God a Delusion?: How W. E…. READ MORE
Matter, Magic & Spirit–Now Available
03/22/2007
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief David Murray 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3996-6 | $59.95 | £39.00 Matter, Magic, and… READ MORE
Atlantic Virginia–Now in Paperback
03/21/2007
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century April Lee Hatfield 320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 maps Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1997-5 | $22.50 |… READ MORE
Chicago Tribune Reviews Jackson
03/12/2007
In a recent Chicago Tribune review of Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Eric Arnesen writes: Jackson . . . goes farther than many historians in arguing… READ MORE
Marking the Birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois
02/22/2007
February 23 is a special day in American, African American, and world history. It is the birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the nation’s greatest intellectual and activist…. READ MORE
More than Talking Heads
02/16/2007
Two Penn Press authors and a series editor recently lent their expertize to news and documentary productions on a wide range of subjects. This Thursday, Eric Stover, author of The… READ MORE
Reading Beyond Beloved
According Gene Andrew Jarrett "not all kinds of African American culture are celebrated in February during Black History Month. Consider literature, for example." In his article Misreading authors by their… READ MORE
