10/20/2009
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City Edited by Scott G. Knowles 184 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2078-0 |… READ MORE
09/16/2009
Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century Benjamin Flowers 240 pages | 7 x 10 | 51 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4184-6… READ MORE
09/15/2009
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century Richard Cándida Smith 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4188-4… READ MORE
09/08/2009
The fall term here at Penn is finally underway. (Bring on the new work study students!) To start the semester, two Penn Press authors will be on campus to discuss… READ MORE
09/02/2009
In the September podcast historian Steven Conn, author of Do Museums Still Need Objects? talks about how American museums have changed over the twentieth century and what roles these popular… READ MORE
08/31/2009
City: Rediscovering the Center By William H. Whyte. Foreword by Paco Underhill 408 pages | 7 x 10 | 95 illus. Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2074-2 | $24.95 | £16.50… READ MORE
07/29/2009
One of our interns, Lauren Springer, has a personal research connection to the forthcoming re-release of City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte. In this post, Springer describes her… READ MORE
07/23/2009
Another Penn Press author hit the public radio airwaves this month. Earlier this week, Sarah Schrank, author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles,… READ MORE
07/15/2009
Congratulations to Denise Tanyol, the winner of The What Penn Press Book are You? Facebook contest. Because her entry was randomly selected from all of the eligible entries posted on… READ MORE
05/28/2009
Yesterday Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing that Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer about New York's housing projects, where Judge Sonia Sotomayor… READ MORE
