John Wood Sweet, HNN Top Young Historian
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
Category: Awards
ALA’s “Best of the Best” on C-SPAN’s BookTV
07/27/2007
The American Library Association’s "The Best of the Best of the University Presses: Books You Should Know About" presentation, which took place on June 24th at the annual ALA conference… READ MORE
AAR Award for Bynum’s Wonderful Blood
07/20/2007
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond has been selected to receive the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the… READ MORE
Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues Takes Berks Book Prize
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
Watson’s Back to Nature Wins First ASLE Book Award
06/18/2007
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment gave its first Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing Book Award to Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the… READ MORE
More Awards for Landscape Architecture Books
05/30/2007
Elizabeth Hyde’s Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV has received the 2007 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award by the Society of Architectural Historians "for the… READ MORE
Blum among HNN’s Top Young Historians
History News Network recently added Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, to its list of Top Young Historians. According to HNN, "Each historian on… READ MORE
Middleton Awarded BAAS Prize
04/24/2007
The British Association for American Studies has awarded its Book Prize for the best published book in American Studies in 2006 to Simon Middleton’s From Privileges to Rights: Work and… READ MORE
Parkin Wins Emily Toth Award
02/28/2007
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association has awarded Katherine J. Parkin’s Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, the Emily Toth Award for the best book in… READ MORE
Jackson Chosen for Liberty Legacy Award
02/13/2007
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson has been selected as winner of the 2007 Liberty Legacy… READ MORE
