Reading Women — Now Available in Paperback
10/20/2009
Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Paper… READ MORE
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Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City–Now Available
10/20/2009
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City Edited by Scott G. Knowles 184 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2078-0 |… READ MORE
The Bohemians–Now Available
10/19/2009
The Bohemians Anne Gédéon, Marquis de Pelleport. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. Introduction by Robert Darnton 272 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4194-5 | $34.95 | £23.00… READ MORE
Smart, Coherent, Disciplined and Troubling: The Washington Post review of Chertoff’s Homeland Security
10/19/2009
Edward Alden reviewed Michael Chertoff's Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years and Tom Ridge's The Test of our Times in yesterday's Washington Post. Both Chertoff and Ridge served as… READ MORE
Dynasty, smhynasty! Phillies Fan and Historian Bill Kashatus is Enjoying the Ride
10/15/2009
The weather forecast for the coming week is just one more thing for Philadelphians to worry about, especially those who have their fingers crossed for another World Series Championship. After… READ MORE
Do Museums Still Need Objects?–Now Available
10/14/2009
Do Museums Still Need Objects? Steven Conn 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4190-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Arts… READ MORE
Mapping Decline–Now in Paperback
10/12/2009
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City Colin Gordon 304 pages | 7 x 10 | 78 color illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4070-2 | $55.00… READ MORE
The Anatomy Murders—Now Available
10/08/2009
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–The Anatomy Murders: The Myths and Realities of the Burke and Hare Case
10/01/2009
We're kicking off the second season of Penn Press podcasts with Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors in The Journal of American History
09/28/2009
Four Penn Press authors received praise for their recent books in the September issue of The Journal of American History. Here's what reviewer Julia Grant wrote about Stir it Up: Home… READ MORE
