Hot Off Penn Press: New for July
07/31/2019
The height of summer is the perfect time to find a new book to read. Below, you can find one as you browse through Penn Press’s new releases in fields… READ MORE
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A Brief History of Doom
05/23/2019
Today we have a guest post form Richard Vague, a managing partner of Gabriel Investments, Chairman of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, and author of 2014’s The Next Economic Disaster: Why… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2018 catalog!
07/19/2018
Exciting new titles this season include: Slavery in the North by Marc Howard Ross, which looks at how northerners collectively forgot 250 years of human bondage and the recent—and continuing—struggles… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Summer is here
06/26/2018
Welcome to summer! Don’t miss our latest round-up of new titles, including a history of Washington, D.C.-area environmental activism, an exploration of medieval Jewish responses to the plague, an ethnographic… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Fresh reads for 2018
01/31/2018
Happy New Year! Penn Press's 2018 is off to a great start, with a range of new titles in literature, history, religious studies and more. Take a look below! Jump… READ MORE
Political Slogans and the Critique of Progress
12/01/2017
Today we have a timely and intriguing guest post from Matthew W. Slaboch, a postdoctoral research fellow at the James Madison Program in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and author… READ MORE
Disability and the Right to Digital Information
07/13/2017
Today we have a guest post from Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein, co-editors of Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology. Lazar is Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University… READ MORE
In Memoriam: Nina Auerbach
02/21/2017
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Nina Auerbach’s passing. Auerbach was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English until her 2010 retirement, and was a noted… READ MORE
University Press Week 2014: Day 5, “Follow Friday”
11/14/2014
Today is the final day of the University Press Week blog tour, and the theme for this cold (at least here in Philly) Friday is "Follow Friday." Six presses tell… READ MORE
University Press Week 2014: Day 4, “Throwback Thursday”
11/13/2014
Today's University Press Week blog tour theme is "Throwback Thursday," with six presses looking back into their histories. Temple University Press has a post describing the development of their influential… READ MORE