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The Empire Reformed–Now Available

The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution Owen Stanwood 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4341-3 | $45.00… READ MORE

Name that Zoot Contest: Week Three

The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE

Penned in Prison: The Bohemians and the Bastille

In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE

Name that Zoot Contest: Week Two

Congratulations to Pinchus Roth of New York, week one's winner. Last week's question was a killer diller, but Roth rose to the occasion. The name of the actor who graces… READ MORE

Zoot Suit Stumper Clue

It seems that we have stumped our readers with the first Name That Zoot contest question. Take a look at the man on the cover of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic… READ MORE