In Memoriam: Eric C. Schneider
04/17/2017
It is with great sadness that acknowledge the recent passing of Eric C. Schneider, Assistant Dean, Associate Director for Academic Affairs, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at the School… READ MORE
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Does Power Listen to Truth in the Case of the Romani People?
04/11/2017
Today, we have a guest post from the three co-editors of the new volume Realizing Roma Rights: Margareta Matache, an instructor at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human… READ MORE
Afternoon Coffee Break: God Almighty Hisself by Mitchell Nathanson
04/03/2017
This blog post marks a special edition of the Afternoon Coffee Break series to coincide with Major League Baseball's 2017 Opening Day! In this series, Penn Press's Direct Mail and… READ MORE
Adversarial Relations? Are You Kidding?
03/28/2017
Today, we have a guest post from Richard John, Professor of History at Columbia University and co-editor with Kim Phillips-Fein of Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, which explores the influence… READ MORE
Understanding How We Talk About Inequality in America: Reflections on the Moynihan Report
03/24/2017
Today we have a guest post from Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott Associate Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Spring reads
03/23/2017
As the winter chill beings to thaw and spring weather moves in, what could be better than a new book about American history, Medieval literature, or art? For titles like… READ MORE
In Memoriam: Mary Maples Dunn
03/21/2017
It is with great sadness that we share the news that historian and scholar Mary Maples Dunn has passed away. Dunn was the co-editor of the Penn Press books The… READ MORE
Afternoon Coffee Break: Astounding Wonder by John Cheng
03/16/2017
This blog post comes from Penn Press’s Direct Mail and Advertising Manager, Tracy Kellmer, and continues a series, the Afternoon Coffee Break, in which Tracy shares her reflections and observations… READ MORE
Excavating in the Galleries
03/09/2017
Today we have an exciting guest post from Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Associate Professor of… READ MORE
History as Selfie?
03/06/2017
Today we have a fascinating, wide-ranging, and personally insightful guest post from historian Michael Guasco. Guasco is is Professor of History at Davidson College and author of Slaves and Englishmen: Human… READ MORE
