Category: PA & Philadelphia Region

Natural Light on Natural History: Rosamond Purcell’s Notes on Photographing Artifacts for A Glorious Enterprise

05/21/2012

The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.

A Glorious Enterprise–Now Available

04/03/2012

A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell 464 pages |… READ MORE

Penn Press First Incorporated 122 Years Ago Today

03/26/2012

On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE

Gray Panthers–Now in Paperback

08/09/2011

Gray Panthers Roger Sanjek 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4137-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2191-6 | $26.50 |… READ MORE

Lucretia Mott was no Mild Mannered Quaker

08/03/2011

Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE