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The Atlantic’s Intriguing Review of Smack

"Using a clinical pickax to scale sharp sociological heights, Schneider, a historian with a fetish for outré urban doings, locates and explores a provocative nexus of truth and transgression: the… READ MORE

Kettl Weighs In on the Response to Gustav

Two major news outlets went to public policy and administration expert Donald F. Kettl for an assessment of post-Katrina and Rita government response to Gustav, the latest hurricane to hit… READ MORE

Sageman on NPR’s Morning Edition

National Public Radio reporter Tom Gjelten interviewed Leaderless Jihad author Marc Sageman for a story on the state of al-Qaida today. Listen to the story, Analysts Debate al-Qaida’s Strength, at… READ MORE

Penn Press Events

  DECEMBER Derrick R. Spires, The Practice of CitizenshipTalkWednesday, December 1, 2021, 5:30 p.m. ETHosted by eCornell at Cornell UniversityVIRTUAL EVENT!Register Shaul Bar-Haim, The MaternalistsTalkWednesday, December 8, 2021, 5:00 p.m…. READ MORE

Meet Napoleon’s Big Brother

"Thanks to Patricia Tyson Stroud’s extensive research and fluid narrative American readers will be glad to make the acquaintance of Napoleon’s older brother," writes Doina Pasca Harsanyi in a recent… READ MORE

Now in Paperback–Peace and Freedom

Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960sSimon Hall280 pages | 6 x 9Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3839-7 | $45.00s | £29.50 Paper 2006 | ISBN… READ MORE

Now in Paperback–The Poor Indians

/The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility/
Laura M. Stevens
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3812-5 | $39.95s| £ 26.00
Paper August 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1967-8 | $24.95s | £ 16.50