Group Harmony–Now in Paperback
03/12/2010
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues Stuart L. Goosman 304 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 15 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2108-4 |… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
NYT Interviews Seeman on African Burial Ground Controversy
01/27/2010
In the early 1990's, the coffin of a colonial-era African was unearthed in lower Manhattan in a place now the National Park Service African Burial Ground. The coffin was decorated… READ MORE
Books for Excellence in Service
01/15/2010
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday approaches… READ MORE
The War on Welfare–Now Available
11/30/2009
The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America Marisa Chappell 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4204-1 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Visions of Progress–Now in Paperback
Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2095-7… READ MORE
Archives of American Time–Now Available
11/24/2009
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Lloyd Pratt 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4208-9 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America–Now Available
11/23/2009
Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America Michael L. Ondaatje 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4206-5 | $34.95 | £23.00 Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas… READ MORE
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War–Now Available
11/16/2009
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution Matthew J. Clavin 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2009… READ MORE
W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet–Now in Paperback
11/10/2009
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet Edward J. Blum 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2086-5… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors in The Journal of American History
09/28/2009
Four Penn Press authors received praise for their recent books in the September issue of The Journal of American History. Here's what reviewer Julia Grant wrote about Stir it Up: Home… READ MORE
