Announcing our Fall 2014 catalog
06/04/2014
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2014 catalog. This season’s offerings include a beautifully illustrated volume exploring the rich history of the Brandywine Valley, home… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
Hot Off Penn Press: May’s New Books
05/30/2014
April showers bring new May books! These are the titles that have appeared in our warehouse this month. Many are quite interdisciplinary and span multiple categories, so have a look… READ MORE
Cutting Along the Color Line Author Quincy Mills on Radio and TV
12/30/2013
Listen in and tune in! On Thursday, January 2, Vassar College history professor Quincy Mills will discuss his new book, Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: To March for Others, Caught on Camera, Before Orientalism, and Revitalizing American Cities
11/22/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. To March for Others:… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Cutting Along the Color Line and Hasanlu V, Plus 3 New Paperback Releases
11/08/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Cutting Along the Color… READ MORE
A View from Third Base?–Historian Karen Ferguson on Cory Booker and the Legacy of Racial Liberalism
11/01/2013
Booker’s concurrent troubles in leading Newark and success as a political celebrity demonstrate how the rise of elite black figures in America is not the culmination of the fight for racial equality, as the story is often told, but is rather the consummation of an elite white strategy begun in the late 1960s to bring exceptional African Americans into the highest echelons of American culture and society with few benefits for those left behind.
Hot Off Penn Press: Electing the President 2012, Nothing Natural is Shameful, and Biography and the Black Atlantic
10/18/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Nothing Natural Is Shameful:… READ MORE
New Books in American Studies Interviews New World of Labor Author Simon P. Newman
10/11/2013
Simon P. Newman, author of A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic, spoke with New Books in American Studies podcast host Dan Kilbride… READ MORE
This Week’s New Book: Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Now In Paperback
09/13/2013
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Faulkner 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4321-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
A Look Back on Media Coverage of the March on Washington
08/28/2013
"Collective memories and historical interpretations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom run the spectrum from liberal triumphalism to radical disillusionment. Both views distort the multiple meanings… READ MORE
