Early African American Print Culture–Now Available
08/01/2012
Early African American Print Culture Edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein 432 pages | 6 x 9 | 43 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4425-0 | $55.00… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
This Week’s New Books: In the Shadow of the Gallows, Banished, Political Gastronomy
07/20/2012
In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity Jeannine Marie DeLombard 456 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4422-9 |… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Victoria W. Wolcott on Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
07/02/2012
“It’s not simply kids having fun at a roller skating rink. It’s that when you associate certain kinds of spaces with cleanliness, safety, and fun that exclude people of color, then that association has powerful cultural and political effects long after desegregation actually happens,” says Wolcott.
Q&A with Geoffrey Plank, author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
Citizens of a Christian Nation–Now in Paperback
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
Fall 2012 Preview
06/05/2012
For a preview of our Fall 2012 books, take a look at the latest catalog in glorious PDF. Our forthcoming books cover an array of subjects, from medieval letters to… READ MORE
The Camera and the Press – Now Available
06/01/2012
The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype Marcy J. Dinius 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth Apr… READ MORE
Penn Press First Incorporated 122 Years Ago Today
03/26/2012
On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE
Remembering Lucretia Mott on International Women’s Day
03/08/2012
Lucretia Coffin Mott’s record of leadership in the women’s movement and in transatlantic abolitionism make her an ideal figure to remember on International Women’s day, even though Mott has long… READ MORE
Talking Douglass-like about Law–A Guest Blog Post by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
02/22/2012
Overcoming an initial reluctance to “talk ‘lawyer-like’ about law” in his early career as abolitionist orator, author, and editor, the celebrated autodidact drew on “well known rules of legal interpretation” to offer influential commentary on the U.S. Constitution and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This legal literacy, combined with a longstanding commitment to gender and racial equality, might have led Douglass to question the wisdom of current efforts to make personhood coterminous with humanness.
