12/21/2007
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life has earned a "highly recommended" rating from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. According to Choice reviewer D. B. Wilmeth, "this scholarly, erudite, and thorough… READ MORE
12/20/2007
Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Jason Chambers 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4047-4 | $39.95… READ MORE
12/17/2007
Penn Press author and editor Steven Conn criticizes Mitt Romney’s recent speech on the place of religion in politics. According to Conn, Romney’s attack on "’the religion of secularlism’. …. READ MORE
12/04/2007
The Modern Language Association of America is awarding its fourteenth annual Prize for a First Book to Sean X. Goudie for Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of… READ MORE
12/03/2007
Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War Simon Serfaty 184 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4060-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 "A masterful analysis of… READ MORE
11/28/2007
New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas Edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2005… READ MORE
Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 312 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE
11/20/2007
History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE
11/14/2007
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. Cloth… READ MORE
11/13/2007
More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE
