06/15/2012
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 June… READ MORE
06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
06/12/2012
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 Hilary E. Wyss 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4413-7… READ MORE
06/12/2012
Congratulations to Pawel Maciejko, winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the outstanding first book in Jewish studies published in 2011. The American Academy of Jewish Research selected Maciejko… READ MORE
06/08/2012
"Like Avogadro's number or the rules of subjunctive verbs, the War of 1812 is one of those things that you learned about in school and promptly forgot without major consequence,"… READ MORE
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
06/06/2012
1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism Nicole Eustace 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4431-1 | $34.95 | £23.00 A volume in… READ MORE
06/06/2012
A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians Gunlög Fur 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4182-2 | $39.95… READ MORE
06/05/2012
Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4239-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
06/05/2012
Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth. Foreword by Lebbeus Woods 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
