Spotted: Penn Press Books at the National Building Museum
11/11/2013
In this post, Marketing Assistant Alex Beaton reveals that she can't stay away from Penn Press books, even when she goes out of town for the weekend. Last weekend, I… READ MORE
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Hot Off Penn Press: Cutting Along the Color Line and Hasanlu V, Plus 3 New Paperback Releases
11/08/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Cutting Along the Color… READ MORE
A View from Third Base?–Historian Karen Ferguson on Cory Booker and the Legacy of Racial Liberalism
11/01/2013
Booker’s concurrent troubles in leading Newark and success as a political celebrity demonstrate how the rise of elite black figures in America is not the culmination of the fight for racial equality, as the story is often told, but is rather the consummation of an elite white strategy begun in the late 1960s to bring exceptional African Americans into the highest echelons of American culture and society with few benefits for those left behind.
A Seasonal Medieval Tajine
10/31/2013
It was also relatively easy to assemble and prepare using ingredients that were local and seasonal in Philadelphia—a wonderful find for a recipe that was invented in another century across the globe!
Hot Off Penn Press: Dangerously Sleepy, Seasons of Misery, In My Mother’s House, and Why Don’t American Cities Burn?
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire, Parrots and Nightingales, and Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts
10/25/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Jews, Christians, and the… READ MORE
‘Race Neutrality’ and Affirmative Action–Changing Minds, If Not Hearts Coauthors in Washington Monthly
10/22/2013
"Is 'race neutrality' merely a rationalization for whites to use in protecting their share of the pie, or is there a genuine concern for the fairness of the process? If… READ MORE
New Books in Human Rights Podcast with Clan Cleansing in Somalia Author Lidwien Kapteijns
10/21/2013
Wellesley College historian Lidwien Kapteijns spoke with New Books in Human Rights about her recent book, Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991. The book examines the bloodshed… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Electing the President 2012, Nothing Natural is Shameful, and Biography and the Black Atlantic
10/18/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Nothing Natural Is Shameful:… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: Early Modern Digital Scholarship as Handwork and Brainwork
10/16/2013
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's pick for October… READ MORE