03/30/2012
In the April Penn Press podcast, our own Sara Davis reads selections from The Satires of Horace, translated by A.M. Juster. In the Satires, the Roman philosopher and dramatic critic… READ MORE
03/02/2012
In the March Penn Press podcast, historian and patent-holder John Cheng discusses the early culture of popular science fiction. Cheng's new book, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar… READ MORE
02/01/2012
In the February podcast Shawn Leigh Alexander, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and interim director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, talks about… READ MORE
12/15/2011
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our beloved blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for… READ MORE
12/01/2011
In the December 2011 Penn Press podcast, Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the history of urban inequality, the significance of… READ MORE
11/01/2011
For the November podcast, we dip into the archives for a second listen to Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology… READ MORE
10/03/2011
In the October podcast, Mitchell D. Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York Police Department, talks about his forthcoming book, The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West…. READ MORE
08/18/2011
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America Scott Gabriel Knowles 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4350-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
06/16/2011
The June 2011 podcast is all about one of the most outrageous fashions of the twentieth century, the zoot suit. As jazz music spread aruond the world, the zoot followed…. READ MORE
