Pennsylvania Dutch Pies for Pi Day
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
The Surprising Roots of Women’s History in the United States
03/08/2013
The women’s histories that were produced in the late eighteenth century promoted an ideal of domestic citizenship for women that was valued as a break from a less advanced past, and hence a sign of modernity, as well as a distinguishing characteristic of national virtue at a time when a market economy and new forms of political organization were reshaping the countries of Europe and the New World.
Win a Free Copy of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America
03/08/2013
If you’d like the chance to receive a free copy of The Disaster Experts, send an email to pressmkt at pobox dot upenn dot edu with your first name, last name, and your preferred email address by March 15 at noon Eastern Standard Time. One person will be selected at random to receive a hardcover or ebook copy of The Disaster Experts.
Jet Sex Author Victoria Vantoch Shares Stewardess History on Tumblr
02/11/2013
Victoria Vantoch, historian and author of The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon, has just launched a tumblr site devoted to the history of flight… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Homeless and International Bohemia
02/08/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America Ella Howard 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4472-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2013 |… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books
02/01/2013
Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4470-0 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Win a Free Copy of Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
02/01/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America examines how generations of urban dwellers have dealt with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents…. READ MORE
Why Groundhog?
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
This Week’s New Books: The Roman Inquisition, Freud on Madison Avenue, and Ceramics in Print
01/25/2013
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo Thomas F. Mayer 392 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1 | $79.95… READ MORE
MLK Day Reading List for 2013
01/18/2013
Many Penn Press publications, from the journal Humanity to our book series Politics and Culture in Modern America and Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, address the issues that Martin Luther… READ MORE
