Presenting the Spring 2014 Catalog
11/25/2013
The Penn Press Spring 2014 catalog is now available. The catalog cover features an image of a banquet at the palace of the French King Charles V. Inside, there's a… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Hot Off Penn Press: To March for Others, Caught on Camera, Before Orientalism, and Revitalizing American Cities
11/22/2013
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. To March for Others:… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: The Politics of Renouncing Zaragoza in Don Quijote
11/18/2013
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 November… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Political Creativity, Rethinking the American City, Louisiana, and The Heart and Stomach of a King
11/15/2013
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. Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional… READ MORE
Growing from our Strengths: Penn Press Builds on Its Distinguished Traditions
11/12/2013
Penn Press Log is a proud stop on the AAUP University Press Week 2013 Blog Tour. The theme for today's leg of the tour, "Subject Area Spotlight," was a bit… READ MORE
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
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
