Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2017 catalog
05/17/2017
Penn Press is thrilled to announce our Fall 2017 catalog. Exciting new titles this season include Women at the Wheel by Katherine J. Parkin, which traces the gendered history of… READ MORE
Category: Public Policy
America’s Tangled History of Immigration and Illegality
05/16/2017
Today we have a guest post from Torrie Hester, who teaches at Saint Louis University and is the author of the new book Deportation. Deportation covers the uncertain beginnings of American… READ MORE
Does Power Listen to Truth in the Case of the Romani People?
04/11/2017
Today, we have a guest post from the three co-editors of the new volume Realizing Roma Rights: Margareta Matache, an instructor at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human… READ MORE
Adversarial Relations? Are You Kidding?
03/28/2017
Today, we have a guest post from Richard John, Professor of History at Columbia University and co-editor with Kim Phillips-Fein of Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, which explores the influence… READ MORE
Understanding How We Talk About Inequality in America: Reflections on the Moynihan Report
03/24/2017
Today we have a guest post from Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott Associate Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Spring reads
03/23/2017
As the winter chill beings to thaw and spring weather moves in, what could be better than a new book about American history, Medieval literature, or art? For titles like… READ MORE
The Joy of Aging
03/01/2017
Today we have an exciting guest post from the author of the just-published new book Aging in America: A Cultural History. Lawrence R. Samuel is founder of Boomers 3.0, a… READ MORE
Business Politics
02/16/2017
Today, we have a guest post from Kim Phillips-Fein, Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and co-editor with Richard R. John of the… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: New year, new books
02/13/2017
Welcome to 2017! With the new year in full swing, we've begun releasing our Spring 2017 books (with a few late arrivals from Fall 2016 in the mix as well). Take a look below… READ MORE
The End of the American Shopping Mall?
01/25/2017
Today, we have a guest post from Vicki Howard, Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Essex and author of From Main Street to Mall, co-winner… READ MORE
