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.
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.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
Edited by Howard Gillette Jr. and Carolyn T. Adams
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.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
Edited by Andrew Heath
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512827385
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the Nation bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
Edited by Charlene Mires and Jean R. Soderlund
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826630
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set
Edited by Carolyn T. Adams, Howard Gillette Jr., Andrew Heath, Charlene Mires and Jean R. Soderlund
Price: $125.00
ISBN: 9781512829358
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Multiple-item retail product
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century brings to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
Contributions by Patrick Spero, Michelle Craig McDonald, John Van Horne, David R. Brigham, Caroline O’Connell and Bayard Miller
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181225
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
110 Pages
This book, based on an APS exhibition, focuses on the diverse lived experiences of Philadelphians before, during, and after the fight for independence. It includes a fully-illustrated checklist, three essays and two short project history statements, each offering a unique perspective on Philadelphia’s role in the American Revolution.
