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
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
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
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
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
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
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
09/25/2009
Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills co-wrote a piece for today’s issue of Tne New Republic entitled A Just Withdrawal. In it, they share their guidelines for an ethical withdrawal from… READ MORE
09/25/2009
A thoroughly unscientific sampling of University of Pennsylvania Press editors and staff revealed that although the Press boasts competent speakers in many languages, its collective fluency in Mandarin is somewhat… READ MORE
09/22/2009
Sometimes fiction is stranger than the truth. Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh’s Notorious Burke and Hare, and of the Man… READ MORE
