Penn Press Log

John Wood Sweet, HNN Top Young Historian

History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE

Reading Women–Now Available

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth… READ MORE

Fallible Authors–Now Available

Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis 528 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4030-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in… READ MORE

Ripping away the False Curtain

More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE

Wonderful Blood–Now in Paperback

Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond Caroline Walker Bynum 456 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 34 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN… READ MORE

New Sugrue Review in The Nation

In the November 12, 2007 issue of The Nation, Penn Press series editor Thomas J. Sugrue has some interesting things to say about the late Albert Shanker, a figure of… READ MORE