06/26/2008
"Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature is a richly textured study of theoretical conceptions of the African American canon as well as primary and secondary sources."… READ MORE
06/25/2008
The staff of Penn Press was saddened by news of the passing of Bruce Montgomery, composer, educator, director, and author of Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with… READ MORE
06/23/2008
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet author Edward J. Blum recently discussed the inspiration for his research with the online daily magazine Religion Dispatches. Here’s an excerpt from the… READ MORE
06/20/2008
Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War Laura A. Belmonte 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4082-5 | $47.50 |… READ MORE
06/19/2008
Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture Megan J. Elias 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Stir… READ MORE
06/18/2008
Provocative was a popular word among the four historians who participated in a Journal of Women’s History book forum on Judith M. Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of… READ MORE
06/11/2008
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male Edited by Elijah Anderson 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4097-9 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
06/10/2008
Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography Daphne Lamothe 256 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4093-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 Daphne Lamothe explores how many… READ MORE
06/09/2008
Over the weekend, both the New York Times and the Washington Post addressed the differing views of Leaderless Jihad author Marc Sageman and Georgetown scholar Bruce Hoffman. Sageman and Hoffman… READ MORE
06/05/2008
In "Terrorism’s Two Front War," Huffington Post blogger Adam Elkus outlines the current debate on the state of Al Qaeda. "The main question: is Al Qaeda still a disciplined organization… READ MORE
