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Pepperpot City
Philadelphia and the Foundation of American Cuisine, An Illustrated History
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830040
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Making Science History
A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781606180372
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The years 1945 to 2020, from the testing of the first atomic bomb to the rise of artificial intelligence, constitute the “American century,” which coincides with the rise and fall of the United States as a global power. Arnold Thackray’s pioneering expertise in the history of science provides a unique perspective from which to tell this story.
The Disaffected
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
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occupation of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1778, The Disaffected highlights the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the War for Independence and reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.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
Planting in Space, Time, and Memory
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9798993128009
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Blue-Collar Conservatism
Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829181
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
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.
Lenape Country
Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829204
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
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.
Independence Hall in American Memory
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829211
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
In Independence Hall, Charlene Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall. According to Mires, the significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries.
Liberty's Prisoners
Carceral Culture in Early America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829174
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
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.
Up South
Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512829198
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
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.
The Greater Philadelphia Region
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826043
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
Pepperpot City
Philadelphia and the Foundation of American Cuisine, An Illustrated History
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830040
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Making Science History
A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781606180372
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The years 1945 to 2020, from the testing of the first atomic bomb to the rise of artificial intelligence, constitute the “American century,” which coincides with the rise and fall of the United States as a global power. Arnold Thackray’s pioneering expertise in the history of science provides a unique perspective from which to tell this story.
The Disaffected
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
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
Planting in Space, Time, and Memory
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9798993128009
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Blue-Collar Conservatism
Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829181
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
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.
Lenape Country
Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829204
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
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.
Independence Hall in American Memory
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829211
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
In Independence Hall, Charlene Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall. According to Mires, the significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries.
Liberty's Prisoners
Carceral Culture in Early America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829174
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
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.
Up South
Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512829198
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
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.
The Greater Philadelphia Region
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826043
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.