Library Journal on Black Walden
05/05/2009
Library Journal has taken notice of Elise Lemire's new book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a quote from the review in their May 1 issue…. READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
A New Penn Press Podcast–Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
05/01/2009
In the May Penn Press podcast, author Elise Lemire talks about her latest book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, and the fascinating Africans and African Americans… READ MORE
For the Millions– Now in Paperback
04/29/2009
For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars A. Joan Saab 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 51 illus. Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3818-1 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Beeman on The Daily Show
04/27/2009
Last week Richard R. Beeman, author of The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America and The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832,… READ MORE
Major Review Weekend
04/20/2009
Two Penn Press authors were favorably reviewed in major publications this past weekend. Ross Douthat praised Steven P. Miller in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Book Review. Douthat wrote: …it’s… READ MORE
Nominate a topic for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
04/16/2009
Work on The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia project begins today with a Civil Partner and Planning Workshop at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The project invites everyone to nominate topics… READ MORE
Pulsipher and Richter in After the Mayflower
04/14/2009
If you didn't catch the premiere of After the Mayflower, the first episode in the new American Experience miniseries We Shall Remain, you can still watch it on line at… READ MORE
Against the Wall–Now in Paperback
04/14/2009
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male Edited by Elijah Anderson 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4097-9 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Dangerous Economies–Now Available
04/13/2009
Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York Serena R. Zabin 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4160-0 | $37.50 | £24.50… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors in Eighteenth-Century Studies
04/08/2009
Penn Press authors are all over the latest volume of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. Both Kathleen DuVal's The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent and… READ MORE
