Americana Insights 2026 is the fourth volume in an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional Americana and folk art. This volume presents a timely reexamination of iconic national symbols and material culture and offers a unique addition to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Philadelphia and the Foundation of American Cuisine, An Illustrated History
William Woys Weaver
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830040
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Pepperpot City, a lavishly illustrated collection of seventeen thematic essays ranging from memoir to investigative history written by veteran food writer and Philadelphian William Woys Weaver, provides an engaging and accessible tour of Old Philadelphia cuisine as well as modernized re-creations of historical dishes, including pepperpot soup.
Edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Contributions by Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt and Susan Weiler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829563
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Illustrated by nearly fifty of Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa’s stunning photographs as well as color photographs, archival drawings, blueprints, maps, plans, and diagrams, Penn’s Sylvania not only showcases the critical importance of trees to University of Pennsylvania urban campus but also introduces the people responsible for establishing and conserving its rich botanical heritage.
The Atlantic Republic of Letters offers an alternative intellectual history of early America. Situating Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world, it shows how early American intellectuals helped to devise and put into practice colonialism.
Undoing Slavery excavates medical and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Facing many challenges to their goal of restoring embodied self-sovereignty to the enslaved, abolitionists learned that legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829693
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Focusing on the British occupation of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1778, The Disaffected highlights the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the War for Independence and reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
Syd Carpenter (b. 1953) is a nationally recognized, Philadelphia-based ceramic artist whose work gives sculptural form to African American farming and gardening traditions. Featuring more than one hundred color images and essays by leading scholars, this retrospective catalogue presents the first comprehensive resource on her art.
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.
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.
