12/04/2008
"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
12/03/2008
In the latest Penn Press podcast, historian and author Roger W. Moss and photographer Tom Crane discuss their collaboration on Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia, the final book in their architecture… READ MORE
12/02/2008
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart Edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4128-0 | $55.00… READ MORE
12/02/2008
Talking Points Memo Café blogger Kenneth Thomas calls Colin Gordon's Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City "an outstanding overview of the decline of America's cities."… READ MORE
11/25/2008
In a new op-ed in The Boston Globe, William F. Schulz, senior fellow in human-rights policy at the Center for American Progress and former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA,… READ MORE
11/25/2008
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam Thomas Sizgorich 408 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4113-6 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
11/25/2008
Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages Christine Caldwell Ames 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4133-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
11/21/2008
The Country Seats of the United States William Russell Birch Edited by Emily T. Cooperman 96 pages | 9 x 9 | 20 color, 19 b/w illus. Cloth Nov 2008… READ MORE
11/20/2008
Today, the Jewish Daily Forward released the Forward 50, the publication's "annual list of 50 machers and shakers in the Jewish world." This year, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was among the group…. READ MORE
11/19/2008
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 J. A. Leo Lemay 768 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 63 illus. Cloth Nov 2008… READ MORE
