Frantic Panoramas–Now Available
05/19/2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Nancy Bentley 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4174-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Conducting close readings of writers… READ MORE
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Miller’s History News Net Essay on Evangelicals in Politics
05/18/2009
"Recent developments might be giving historians of the increasingly prominent subject of American evangelicalism (specifically, political evangelicalism) reason to consider whether we have reached the end of an era," says… READ MORE
Annual Open House This Saturday
05/14/2009
The Press is making final preparations for this year's Alumni Weekend Open House Event, this Saturday, May 16 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m in the Victorian mansion that houses… READ MORE
Business and Economics Editor Erin Graham’s First 10 Days at Penn Press
05/13/2009
With all the talk about Obama’s first 100 days, we figured it was only fair to ask our new editor Erin Graham about her first ten days here at Penn… READ MORE
Special Event: Elijah Anderson and Against the Wall Contributors at the Inn at Penn Wed. Night
05/12/2009
Join the authors of Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male in the Living Room at the Inn at Penn (3600 Sansom Street) on Wednesday, May 13 from 5:00… READ MORE
“Miscegenation”: Making Race in America–Now in Paperback
05/12/2009
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America Elise Lemire 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3664-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2064-3… READ MORE
2 North Carolina Papers on Miller’s Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South
05/11/2009
The Winston-Salem Journal and The Star-News of Wilmington have taken notice of Steven P. Miller's new book on North Carolina native Billy Graham. In an editorial for The Winston-Salem Journal,… READ MORE
Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560–Now in Paperback
05/11/2009
Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 Thomas E. Burman 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4018-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009… READ MORE
Bynum Wins Otto Gründler Book Prize
05/08/2009
We've just learned via twitter.com/PennPress that Caroline Walker Bynum has received the Otto Gründler Book Prize for Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. The… READ MORE
Lincoln Mitchell Discusses Georgian Mutiny on Worldfocus
05/06/2009
Last night, Lincoln Mitchell, author of Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution, appeared on the public television program Worldfocus to discuss this week's Georgian military mutiny attempt…. READ MORE
