Penn Press Spring 2016 Catalog
12/17/2015
As 2015 draws to a close, we look ahead to the springtime, in more ways than one. We are pleased to share our Spring 2016 catalog. Spring brings the first… READ MORE
Category: Civil Rights
Announcing our Fall 2015 catalog
07/24/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2015 catalog. This season's offerings include Margaret O'Mara's Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century; the fourth… READ MORE
Chaos in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic’s Resolution 168/13 and the slipperiness of citizenship
07/22/2015
Today we have a guest post by Margaret Walton-Roberts, coeditor of The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. This post is an expanded version of one that originally appeared… READ MORE
Memoir of a Stateless Person: Helmut Hassmann
07/09/2015
The following is a repost of a blog post by Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, coeditor with Margaret Walton-Roberts of The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. The post first appeared on… READ MORE
Daniel Geary on the fraught heritage of The Moynihan Report
07/08/2015
Today we have a guest post from Daniel Geary, author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy. If you need more, see this round-up of his writing… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: June’s New Books
It may not be harvest time yet, but June yielded a bumper crop of new books. Check them out below, and to receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign… READ MORE
Media Round-Up: Daniel Geary
07/07/2015
Daniel Geary's Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy just came out in June, but it's already getting attention, with Geary's writing popping up across the Web. Here'… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: March’s New Books
04/08/2015
Spring in Philadelphia is tentative, to say the least, but there's nothing tentative about the books we published last month! Read on to see new offerings in American History, Political… READ MORE
Farkhunda did not die because of “Afghan culture”
03/30/2015
Today we have a guest post from Julie Billaud, author of Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan, out now. The recent killing by a mob of Farkhunda, a 20-year-old… READ MORE
Interview with C. Peter Timmer, author of Food Security and Scarcity
02/03/2015
In the fall, Penn published a book by C. Peter Timmer, Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard. Timmer's book, as the title suggests, examines the challenges… READ MORE
