Beyond the Good Death–Now in Paperback
05/29/2012
Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying James W. Green 272 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4042-9 | $29.95 | £19.50 Paper… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
The Revolution Is Now Begun – Now in Paperback
The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776 Richard Alan Ryerson 328 pages | 7 x 10 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2213-5 | $29.95 | £19.50 Ryerson… READ MORE
Priscilla Yamin Asks: What Role Should Marriage Play in Defining the Rights of Citizens?
North Carolina's recent constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and the White House's response to that measure continue to reverberate through personal and public conversations across the nation. In this post,… READ MORE
John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom–Now Available
05/21/2012
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire Geoffrey Plank 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4405-2 |… READ MORE
Natural Light on Natural History: Rosamond Purcell’s Notes on Photographing Artifacts for A Glorious Enterprise
The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.
Astounding Wonder–Now Available
05/09/2012
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America John Cheng 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 Illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4383-3 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency–Now Available
05/02/2012
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency Saladin M. Ambar 184 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4396-3 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume… READ MORE
Nelson Lichtenstein Wins Sol Stetin Award for Labor History
05/01/2012
This May Day evening, the Sidney Hillman Foundation will present historian Nelson Lichtenstein with the 2012 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History at a ceremony in New York City. Lichtenstein… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Saladin M. Ambar on Governors, Presidents, and Governors as Presidents
In the May Penn Press podcast, Lehigh University political scientist Saladin M. Ambar, author of How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency, discusses the role that governorship played in shaping… READ MORE
An Earth Day Excerpt from Making Seafood Sustainable
04/18/2012
In many parts of the United States, seafood consisted of canned salmon and canned tuna fish. Processing seafood by freezing was in its infancy. Fresh fish was sold in grocery stores and restaurants mainly in coastal cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Today, technological advances, such as jet airplanes and new freezing techniques, have made it possible for processors and distributors to offer people throughout the United States and in other nations a wide variety of seafood. Fresh, wild salmon from Alaska nestle next to frozen, farm-raised tilapia from China in grocers’ counters across America.
My book explains how this transformation occurred. To do so, I explore the interactions among fishers, executives of seafood-processing firms, governmental officials, scientists, and environmentalists in formulating policies that created the food chains connecting boats to consumers.
