New Sugrue Review in The Nation
11/02/2007
In the November 12, 2007 issue of The Nation, Penn Press series editor Thomas J. Sugrue has some interesting things to say about the late Albert Shanker, a figure of… READ MORE
Category: Reviews
Hartford Courant Commentary on The University & Urban Revival
10/17/2007
Can urban colleges and universities find revitalization lessons in our neighborhood, West Philly? A professor and administrator at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT thinks so. In "Town And… READ MORE
This Is Our Music is a Choice Essential
09/17/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson earned an "Essential" summing up in the September volume of Choice magazine. "Anderson provides an excellent… READ MORE
Praise for Jackson in The Texas Observer
09/13/2007
The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE
The PMHB Review of Conn’s Metropolitan Philadelphia
08/16/2007
In the latest volume of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, reviewer Peter Siskind ranks Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past with Nathaniel Popkin’s Song of… READ MORE
The Journal of American History Reviews Troubled Experiment
06/25/2007
"[Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 by Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe] is an enlightening read, the prose calmly literate and the organizational strategy a satisfying… READ MORE
The Economist Books & Art Finds David’s Fanny Kemble “lively and thorough”
06/22/2007
The Economist’s recent review of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life begins: A friend of Fanny Kemble once apologised for declining a visit by explaining: “I could not see so many… READ MORE
American Ethnologist Review of Female Circumcision
06/11/2007
American Ethnologist calls Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "a provocative book, clearly written for both general and scholarly audiences" and "a respectful dialog that yet presses… READ MORE
Middle East Policy Reviews Trapped in the War on Terror
05/16/2007
A review of Ian S. Lustick’s Trapped in the War on Terror appears in volume 14, issue 1 of the journal Middle East Policy. Although reviewer Charles Peña does not… READ MORE
EH.Net Review of Brides Inc.
04/17/2007
"Well-written and engaging, Brides, Inc. is a welcome addition to the fields of twentieth-century business as well as cultural history, " wrote Janice Traflet in a recent EH.Net review. In… READ MORE
