02/03/2009
From The New York Times City Room Blog: This week, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, the author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, will be answering selected… READ MORE
02/02/2009
In this month’s Penn Press podcast, Brendan O’Leary, author of How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity, lays out plans for the responsible and quick withdrawal of U.S. forces… READ MORE
01/27/2009
Penn Press recently issued a paperback release of Rosemarie Zagarri's Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, so, naturally, we are pleased that the work continues to… READ MORE
01/23/2009
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4123-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume… READ MORE
01/15/2009
In "The War on Drugs Redux," a new essay on the History News Network, Eric C. Schneider warns that current U. S. attempts to control opium production in Afghanistan are… READ MORE
01/12/2009
An article on William C. Kashatus appears in the current issue Pennsylvania Heritage magazine. The magazine outlines the career and contributions of the historian and author of a dozen books,… READ MORE
01/09/2009
Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism Maurice Jackson 376 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 10 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4129-7 |… READ MORE
01/08/2009
In this month’s Penn Press podcast, Eric. C. Schneider, historian and author of Smack: Heroin and the American City, discusses the connection between the urban landscape and the king of… READ MORE
01/05/2009
Philadelphia Inquirer book critic Carlin Romano had this to say about Bruce Kuklick's new biography of William Fontaine, a ground breaking African American scholar: Black Philosopher, White Academy does credit… READ MORE
12/16/2008
Edward J. Blum's W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet was chosen to be the latest Books & Culture Book of the Week. Reviewer Kathryn Lofton writes: Students of U.S…. READ MORE
