H-Urban Review of Nightclub City
04/16/2008
". . .[Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan] is an important addition to the literature on New York and the social world of leisure and entertainment that emerged between… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Blaszczyk Receives BHC Award
04/15/2008
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, editor of Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers, received the Harold F. Williamson Prize from the Business History Conference. The award, which honors mid-career scholars who have… READ MORE
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe–Now Availability
04/10/2008
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter, Editors 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4080-1 | $59.95… READ MORE
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe–Now Available
04/09/2008
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives Edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz 168 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4069-6… READ MORE
Blum Lecture Available Online
In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du… READ MORE
Medieval Academy Prize Goes to Sara Poor
04/08/2008
Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE
Judith S. Schwartz Receives NCECA Honors Award
04/07/2008
Judith S. Schwartz, author of the forthcoming Penn Press release Confrontational Ceramics, recently received an Honors Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The award… READ MORE
“Do not miss ‘Chimneys and Towers'”
04/02/2008
In the April 7 Critic’s Notebook section of The New Yorker, Peter Schjedahl writes: Do not miss "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster," at the Whitney, a small,… READ MORE
Almost a Dynasty Rekindles Fond Memories
04/01/2008
A review of Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies, by William C. Kashatus, appeared in the March 30 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In this… READ MORE
Spring Training Trivia Challenge Final Results
03/31/2008
Today is opening day of the Philadelphia Phillies 2008 season. Time to announce the final results of the Almost A Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. The weekly trivia challenge winners… READ MORE