Jackson Chosen for Liberty Legacy Award
02/13/2007
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson has been selected as winner of the 2007 Liberty Legacy… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
The Evolution of the Origin
02/09/2007
As schools, universities, museums and (yes) churches around the world prepare to celebrate Darwin Day, it’s a great time to study the evolution of the book that started it all… READ MORE
More Praise for Up South
02/06/2007
In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE
The Education of Jane Addams–Now in Paperback
02/02/2007
The Education of Jane Addams Victoria Bissell Brown 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 30 illus. Cloth 2003 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3747-4 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Reactions to Radical Music
02/01/2007
This Is Our Music by Iain Anderson appears in the Noted section of the February/March Bookforum. Reviewer Douglas Mullin says, "The crooked line Anderson draws from the maverick [Cecil] Taylor…. READ MORE
Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus
02/01/2007
A review of Daniel Cottom’s Unhuman Culture appears in the January/February 2007 Bloomsbury Review. Critic Larry T. Shillock writes: Unhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other,… READ MORE
Now Available–Her Life Historical
01/31/2007
Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3986-7 | $55.00… READ MORE
American Capitalism– Now in Paperback
01/31/2007
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3923-2 | $49.95… READ MORE
The Origins of Freemasonry–Now in Paperback
01/26/2007
The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions Margaret C. Jacob 176 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3901-0 | $26.50 | £17.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Schoolcraft in the News
01/25/2007
From The Chicago Reader’s Daily Harold: Hot off the presses at the University of Pennsylvania is what might be a Midwestern blockbuster, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the… READ MORE
