The Work of Writing Women’s Work
07/08/2025
Today’s post comes to us from Jennifer Moore, the Regents’ Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico and author of the new book Women’s Work: Building Peace in… READ MORE
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An espresso martini recipe & a history lesson for World Cocktail Day!
05/13/2025
May 13 is World Cocktail Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the first-ever publication of the definition of “cocktail” in 1806, as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any… READ MORE
University Press Week: Who StepsUP at, with, or for your press?
11/11/2024
Today’s post is a part of University Press Week 2024’s blog tour. This year, the members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)—an organization of 160 mission-driven publishers in the… READ MORE
Christian Spain a Thousand Years Ago
09/17/2024
Today’s post comes from Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History at Hofstra University and co-author of León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, along with the late… READ MORE
Feeling Notes
08/22/2024
Today’s post comes from Omer Aijazi, who is a Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester and author of Atmospheric Violence:… READ MORE
Still Ticking: A Modern Clockmaker Revives His 18th-Century Philadelphia Predecessor, in a New Biography from the APS Press
07/16/2024
Today’s post comes from Jon Repetti, a Visiting Fellow at the APS Press (with whom Penn Press has a recently launched partnership) and a PhD Candidate in English at Princeton University. Originally… READ MORE
Highlights from Our 2024 Women’s History Month Collection
03/19/2024
Penn Press is celebrating Women’s History Month by sharing a collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have published in the past six years—and through the end… READ MORE
Highlights from Our 2024 Black History Month Collection!
02/16/2024
February is Black History Month, and Penn Press is marking the occasion by sharing a collection of books in African American history and studies that we have released in recent… READ MORE
Highlights from Our Women’s History Month Collection!
03/15/2023
March is Women’s History Month, and Penn Press is marking the occasion by offering 40% off all books in our collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have… READ MORE
An Excerpt From The Silver Women in Honor of Women’s History Month
03/09/2023
March is Women’s History Month, and to mark the occasion, we’re sharing an excerpt from the new book The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal by… READ MORE