08/03/2009
In the August podcast Mahmood Monshipouri, author of Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights, talks about identity politics and human rights issues in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, the… READ MORE
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
07/27/2009
Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps Julie Peteet 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3893-8 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2009… READ MORE
Yesterday, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times weighed in on the controversial arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and quoted former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney in her column…. READ MORE
07/23/2009
Another Penn Press author hit the public radio airwaves this month. Earlier this week, Sarah Schrank, author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles,… READ MORE
07/22/2009
You can listen to Steven P. Miller, author of Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South, discuss the life and politics of the famous evangelist on two North… READ MORE
07/17/2009
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, a new public television documentary, gives an overview of the workings of the court and its roots. In presenting interviews with… READ MORE
07/15/2009
Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora Tricia Redeker Hepner 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 map Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4171-6 |… READ MORE
07/06/2009
Just as Americans were preparing to celebrate Independence Day, historian Kathleen DuVal, author of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, shared her perspective on… READ MORE
07/01/2009
In the July podcast Joan Johnson-Freese, author of Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space talks about U. S. military interests in outer space. Johnson-Freese is the Chair of the… READ MORE
