Changing attitudes on incest
05/15/2014
Today we have a guest post from Penn author Brian Connolly, whose new book, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America, gives a history of incest and… READ MORE
Category: Popular Culture
Football, unions, and what it is to be an employee
04/08/2014
Spurred by the National Labor Relations Board's decision stating that Northwestern University's football players are actually university employees and thus able to unionize, the Inquirer ran a story on Sunday… READ MORE
Cutting Along the Color Line Author Quincy Mills on Radio and TV
12/30/2013
Listen in and tune in! On Thursday, January 2, Vassar College history professor Quincy Mills will discuss his new book, Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops… READ MORE
Spotted: Penn Press Books at the National Building Museum
11/11/2013
In this post, Marketing Assistant Alex Beaton reveals that she can't stay away from Penn Press books, even when she goes out of town for the weekend. Last weekend, I… READ MORE
A View from Third Base?–Historian Karen Ferguson on Cory Booker and the Legacy of Racial Liberalism
11/01/2013
Booker’s concurrent troubles in leading Newark and success as a political celebrity demonstrate how the rise of elite black figures in America is not the culmination of the fight for racial equality, as the story is often told, but is rather the consummation of an elite white strategy begun in the late 1960s to bring exceptional African Americans into the highest echelons of American culture and society with few benefits for those left behind.
Takedown Author Philip Mudd on the Colbert Report
09/13/2013
The staff at Penn Press cannot confirm or deny that both of his shoes are phones, but we're pleased to say that Philip Mudd, author of Takedown: Inside the Hunt… READ MORE
A Look Back on Media Coverage of the March on Washington
08/28/2013
"Collective memories and historical interpretations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom run the spectrum from liberal triumphalism to radical disillusionment. Both views distort the multiple meanings… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Scheherazade’s Feasts, Changing Minds, If Not Hearts, and Ethnography after Antiquity
08/02/2013
Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, Leila Salloum Elias 256 pages | 8 1/4 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4477-9 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books–Slandering the Jew, Top Down, and two paperback releases
07/12/2013
Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts Susanna Drake 192 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4520-2 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Win a Free Copy of Ellis Island Nation
04/15/2013
Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, a new book by University of Mississippi historian Robert L. Fleegler, traces the emergence of “contributionism,” the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society.
