Performing Patriotism–Now Available
09/18/2007
Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater Jason Shaffer 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4024-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume… READ MORE
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This Is Our Music is a Choice Essential
09/17/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson earned an "Essential" summing up in the September volume of Choice magazine. "Anderson provides an excellent… READ MORE
Praise for Jackson in The Texas Observer
09/13/2007
The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE
Goodbye, Alex
09/12/2007
In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE
An Editor Looks Back at the APSA Meeting
09/11/2007
Penn Press editor Bill Finan recalls a few highlights from the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. For aspiring authors who see publishing as a black box,… READ MORE
History Matters–Now in Paperback
08/30/2007
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Ruggles Illuminates ‘Cities of Light’
08/29/2007
The film Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain examines a time during the Middle Ages when Christians, Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in southern Spain. D…. READ MORE
Air Kornbluh
08/23/2007
Felicia Kornbluh, author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, has been hitting the airwaves from coast to coast this summer in live radio interviews…. READ MORE
Learning from Mistakes: A Post from a Penn Press Intern
08/20/2007
In this post, Kristina Snader recalls her first assignment as a Penn Press intern. Sand in the Summer On my first day as an intern (and after getting horrendously lost… READ MORE
Sageman: “These guys were radicalizing themselves.”
08/17/2007
An article in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times outlines the threats posed by small groups of terrorists living in the United States. This article appeared shortly after the New York Police… READ MORE
