Liberty’s Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation’s promise of liberty. Reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarceration.
Blue-Collar Conservatism presents a nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged. Reissued with a new preface that explores the rise of Donald Trump and the changes to Philadelphia’s demographics and politics since the Rizzo era.
Featuring a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Charlene Mires’s chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall argues that the building’s significance cannot be fully appreciated without assessing its full political, cultural, and social history. Reissued with a new preface that discusses the importance of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding to public perception of the site.
Broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the efforts of two generations of Black Philadelphians to turn their city into a place of opportunity for all. Reissued with a new preface that continues the story of civil rights activism in Philadelphia up to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Using the broad categories of work, capitalism, and democracy to reinterrogate the past, contributors to this volume contend, is the only way to understand today’s conflicts over the future of how Americans will work, how capitalism will function, and how the country will be governed.
Robert Cozzolino, William R. Valerio and Robert E. Kohler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9798993128016
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
Bodies & Souls examines artworks that illuminate the critical role of community among artists active in Philadelphia, Chicago, Massachusetts, San Francisco, and New York, including Luis Cruz Azaceta, Joan Brown, Gladys Nilsson, and others. These works and their stories speak to artists today in search of circles and contexts that help them thrive.
In this timely new edition of the award-winning The Miseducation of the Student-Athlete, authors Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams provide essential context for understanding college sports in an era transformed by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, while reinforcing their central argument that education must remain paramount.
Exploring literature in Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu, and Turkish, this collection of essays answers important questions about the place of religion in society, secularity and literature, the complexities of treating religion as a stable category, and its relationship to virtue, ethics, legitimacy and social hegemony.
Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Holly A. Crocker
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829679
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.
