03/22/2012
Penn Press is pleased to announce the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania… READ MORE
03/16/2012
A new CNN report on California's history of forced sterilizations includes an interview with Christina Cogdell, author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. According to the report, in… READ MORE
03/15/2012
California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism Jonathan Bell 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4387-1 | $47.50 | £31.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE
03/08/2012
Lucretia Coffin Mott’s record of leadership in the women’s movement and in transatlantic abolitionism make her an ideal figure to remember on International Women’s day, even though Mott has long… READ MORE
03/05/2012
Truth and Democracy Edited by Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4379-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Democracy,… READ MORE
03/02/2012
In the March Penn Press podcast, historian and patent-holder John Cheng discusses the early culture of popular science fiction. Cheng's new book, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar… READ MORE
03/02/2012
This weekend, two new exhibits feature artwork connected to new and forthcoming Penn Press books. A Singular View—The Art and Words of John Paton Davies, Jr. opens Saturday, March 3… READ MORE
03/01/2012
China Hand: An Autobiography John Paton Davies, Jr. Foreword by Todd S. Purdum. Epilogue by Bruce Cumings 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
02/22/2012
Overcoming an initial reluctance to “talk ‘lawyer-like’ about law” in his early career as abolitionist orator, author, and editor, the celebrated autodidact drew on “well known rules of legal interpretation” to offer influential commentary on the U.S. Constitution and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This legal literacy, combined with a longstanding commitment to gender and racial equality, might have led Douglass to question the wisdom of current efforts to make personhood coterminous with humanness.
02/21/2012
This second guest blog post in our series on Frederick Douglass considers his legacy shortly after his death. Shawn Leigh Alexander, author of An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights… READ MORE
