The Age of Apology–Now In Paperback
11/24/2009
The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 |… READ MORE
Category: Essay
Lemire on Walden Pond as a Black Space, not just a Green Space
09/15/2009
"Although it doesn’t yet bill itself as such, Walden Pond State Reservation is an important African-American heritage site. It speaks to the segregation imposed in slavery’s wake and the survival… READ MORE
A Penn Press Intern’s Connection to Whyte’s City: Rediscovering the Center
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
Miller’s History News Net Essay on Evangelicals in Politics
05/18/2009
"Recent developments might be giving historians of the increasingly prominent subject of American evangelicalism (specifically, political evangelicalism) reason to consider whether we have reached the end of an era," says… READ MORE
A Depression Era Recipe for Today’s Troubled Consumer
12/11/2008
Has the economic downturn and holiday shopping made you a little stressed out? In the following essay, Megan J. Elias, historian and author of Stir It Up: Home Economics in… READ MORE
Blum Sees Little “Sublime Mystery” in Obama Victory
11/06/2008
In "Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama," an essay for www.religiondispatches.com, historian Edward J. Blum warns against assigning too much sublime mystery to the… READ MORE
Looking Beyond the Political in China
08/04/2008
In this essay Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and author of Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden, hopes that… READ MORE
Anne Boleyn and the Chop Heard ‘Round the World
05/19/2008
In the following essay, Frances E. Dolan, author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy reflects on popular culture’s long-standing fascination with one of England’s most dysfunctional families. IS… READ MORE
Thomas M. Nichols on History News Network
04/16/2008
Welcome to the new age of preventive war, in which states and their leaders will no longer be content to wait for signs of imminent attack in order to strike… READ MORE
Edward J. Blum puts Jeremiah Wright’s Rhetoric in Context
03/18/2008
In an HNN.us commentary, “God Damn America” in Black and White, Penn Press author and historian Edward J. Blum places the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s controversial oratory in the historical context… READ MORE
