This Week’s New Books
03/29/2013
Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 Edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell 568 pages | 6… READ MORE
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Getting a Little Color: Catherine Cocks and the Truth about Tanning
03/28/2013
In Tropical Whites, I argue that pale-skinned people’s tanning constituted a kind of “brownface,” a playful experiment in becoming nonwhite that embodied a renovated relationship between civilization and nature.
A Corn Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar
03/27/2013
A Corn Song (by Paul Laurence Dunbar) On the wide verandah white,In the purple failing light Sits the master while the sun is lowly burning;And his dreamy thoughts are drown’dIn… READ MORE
Get Hep Tonight at the Free Library with Zoot Suit Author Kathy Peiss
03/20/2013
Kathy Peiss, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme StyleThe University of Pennsylvania History Department presents The Zoot Suit in American CultureWednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.The Free Library of… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: “Why We Argue About the Way We Read,” a free article from The Eighteenth Century
03/18/2013
Paul's pick for March is "Why We Argue About the Way We Read" by Lisa A. Freeman at the University of Illinois Chicago. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue… READ MORE
Pennsylvania Dutch Pies for Pi Day
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
The Surprising Roots of Women’s History in the United States
03/08/2013
The women’s histories that were produced in the late eighteenth century promoted an ideal of domestic citizenship for women that was valued as a break from a less advanced past, and hence a sign of modernity, as well as a distinguishing characteristic of national virtue at a time when a market economy and new forms of political organization were reshaping the countries of Europe and the New World.
Win a Free Copy of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America
03/08/2013
If you’d like the chance to receive a free copy of The Disaster Experts, send an email to pressmkt at pobox dot upenn dot edu with your first name, last name, and your preferred email address by March 15 at noon Eastern Standard Time. One person will be selected at random to receive a hardcover or ebook copy of The Disaster Experts.
This Week’s New Book: Lost Letters of Medieval Life English Society, 1200-1250
03/01/2013
Lost Letters of Medieval Life English Society, 1200-1250 Edited by Martha Carlin and David Crouch 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 19 illus. Cloth Mar 2013 |… READ MORE
Demacopoulos, Author of The Invention of Peter, Discusses the Papacy on ABC News
02/28/2013
George E. Demacopoulos, associate professor of theology at Fordham University and author of The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity, spoke with ABC News on… READ MORE
