Name that Zoot Contest Extended to Friday
08/03/2011
Penn Press is doing you solid. We're extending the deadline for this week's Name that Zoot contest to Friday, August 5 at 12:00 noon eastern time. This week's winner will… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
Lucretia Mott was no Mild Mannered Quaker
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
The Research Triangle–Now Available
The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence William M. Rohe 240 pages | 5 1/2 x 9 | 38 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4343-7 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: The Fourth and Final Week!
07/27/2011
The answer to last week’s question is “zazous.” Before and during World War II, zoot suit wearing jazz lovers in France were known as les zazous. Jusqu’ici sur terre un… READ MORE
Smack–Now Available in Paperback
07/26/2011
Smack: Heroin and the American City Eric C. Schneider 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4116-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2011 |… READ MORE
The Empire Reformed–Now Available
07/25/2011
The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution Owen Stanwood 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4341-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
Women’s Health and the World’s Cities–Now Available
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
So Bravely and So Well: l: The Life and Art of William T. Trego–Now Available
So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego Joseph P. Eckhardt 208 pages | 9 x 12 1/2 | 76 color, 52 b/w illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South–Now Available in Paperback
07/21/2011
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South Steven P. Miller 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4151-8 | $29.95 | £19.50… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Three
07/20/2011
The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE
