“I suppose you will want to know something about the war.” Letters from WWI
11/11/2009
". . . I suppose you will want to know something about the war. As you will see by the papers we are living in stirring and moving times." The… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
USAToday.com Live Chat with Michael Chertoff Today at Noon
11/11/2009
Today at noon E.S.T., former secretary of the department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff will participate in a live moderated chat at USAToday.com. The online publication invites you to send… READ MORE
W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet–Now in Paperback
11/10/2009
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet Edward J. Blum 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2086-5… READ MORE
The Literary Market–Now Available
11/09/2009
The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime Geoffrey Turnovsky 280 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2 | $59.95 | £39.00… READ MORE
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction–Now Available
11/09/2009
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95… READ MORE
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States–Now Available
11/04/2009
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr. 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3925-6 |… READ MORE
Bringing Human Rights Home (Abridged)–Now Available
11/04/2009
Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States Edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis Abridged Edition 408 pages | 6 x… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City
11/03/2009
In the November Penn Press Podcast Drexel University historian Scott Gabriel Knowles discusses the legacy of Philadelphia architect and urban planner Edmund N. Bacon. Knowles is the editor of the… READ MORE
Electing the President, 2008: The Insiders’ View–Now Available
10/28/2009
Electing the President, 2008: The Insiders' View Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 charts Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2096-4 | $24.95 | £16.50… READ MORE
Reading Women — Now Available in Paperback
10/20/2009
Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Paper… READ MORE
