Hot Off Penn Press: February’s New Books
03/04/2015
While hibernating animals sleep snug in their burrows, the rest of us wait with bated breath for winter to end. We here at Penn Press occupy our minds by publishing… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
The garden literature of The Artist’s Garden
02/13/2015
Today we have a guest post from Anna Marley, author of The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, sharing the story behind the catalog and its accompanying exhibition,… READ MORE
Watch Andrew O’Shaughnessy, author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
02/11/2015
Recently, our author Alexander Jackson O'Shaughnessy was featured in two videos, discussing his book, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, from 2000. The first was an… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: January’s New Books
02/04/2015
While the groundhog may have seen its shadow, forecasting six more weeks of winter, we can keep our minds off the weather with the most recent books from Penn Press!… READ MORE
Introducing the C19 Circuit with “Philip, or the Indian Chief”
01/30/2015
Just as we highlighted, last week, a new endeavor by our journal JHI, today we have something new from the organizers of our journal J19. J19 is the official publication of… READ MORE
Download the Spring 2015 catalog now
01/09/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: December’s New Books
01/07/2015
We here at Penn Press hope the festive period was both joyful and restful for all of you. Ours certainly was. With the hectic nature of the holidays, though, we… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Jeannine Marie DeLombard, In the Shadow of the Gallows
12/22/2014
Our final Author Q&A of 2014 is with Jeannine Marie DeLombard, author of In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity, which is out now in paperback. From Puritan… READ MORE
Author Q&A: James J. Gigantino II, The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865
12/19/2014
James Gigantino is the author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865. Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Timothy White, Blue-Collar Broadway
12/15/2014
Timothy White is the author of Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater. Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built… READ MORE
