Penn Press Log

Now Available–Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City John Louis Recchiuti 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3957-1 | $59.95… READ MORE

Now Available–Unhuman Culture

Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3956-3 | $34.95 | £23.00 Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and… READ MORE

Lustick on The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer will interview Ian. S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, on Monday,  9/25 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Listeners can call in comments and… READ MORE

Now Available–Before Harlem

Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I Marcy S. Sacks 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3961-X… READ MORE

CT Landmarks “Hung Out to Dry?”

“The curing shed of the New England tobacco fields is the area’s most characteristic architectural form, and it is fast vanishing from the agricultural landscape,” writes James F. O’Gorman in the September 17th Hartford Courant.
“Hung out to Dry,” his commentary on the historic value of Connecticut’s curing sheds and strategies to preserve these structures, is available at courant.com.