08/12/2013
Someone at New Books Network likes us. They've just posted two new interviews with Penn Press biography authors. Heath Brown interviewed Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern… READ MORE
06/10/2013
Last Friday, Penn Press Director Eric Halpern and Marketing Director Laura Waldron traveled out to Harrisburg, PA, to visit the Midtown Scholar bookstore. The owners, Cathy Lawrence and Eric Papenfuse,… READ MORE
05/10/2013
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From… READ MORE
Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, by economic development consultant Gregory L. Heller, is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. “Edmund Bacon, probably… READ MORE
04/10/2013
Blinder Panhaas is a great dish for the frugal cook to have in her repertoire: the recipe is essentially a means to turn leftover cooking stock and some basic kitchen staples into a tasty accompaniment
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
09/07/2012
In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform John P. Spencer 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4435-9… READ MORE
09/04/2012
In the September Penn Press podcast, Albert J. Churella, Associate Professor in the Social and International Studies Department at Southern Polytechnic State University and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume… READ MORE
08/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for August… READ MORE
