Madison Avenue and the Color Line
05/26/2009
Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Jason Chambers 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Paper Jan 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2060-5 |… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
Frantic Panoramas–Now Available
05/19/2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Nancy Bentley 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4174-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Conducting close readings of writers… READ MORE
Miller’s History News Net Essay on Evangelicals in Politics
05/18/2009
"Recent developments might be giving historians of the increasingly prominent subject of American evangelicalism (specifically, political evangelicalism) reason to consider whether we have reached the end of an era," says… READ MORE
Special Event: Elijah Anderson and Against the Wall Contributors at the Inn at Penn Wed. Night
05/12/2009
Join the authors of Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male in the Living Room at the Inn at Penn (3600 Sansom Street) on Wednesday, May 13 from 5:00… READ MORE
“Miscegenation”: Making Race in America–Now in Paperback
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America Elise Lemire 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3664-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2064-3… READ MORE
2 North Carolina Papers on Miller’s Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South
05/11/2009
The Winston-Salem Journal and The Star-News of Wilmington have taken notice of Steven P. Miller's new book on North Carolina native Billy Graham. In an editorial for The Winston-Salem Journal,… READ MORE
Library Journal on Black Walden
05/05/2009
Library Journal has taken notice of Elise Lemire's new book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a quote from the review in their May 1 issue…. READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
05/01/2009
In the May Penn Press podcast, author Elise Lemire talks about her latest book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, and the fascinating Africans and African Americans… READ MORE
Nominate a topic for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
04/16/2009
Work on The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia project begins today with a Civil Partner and Planning Workshop at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The project invites everyone to nominate topics… READ MORE
Against the Wall–Now in Paperback
04/14/2009
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male Edited by Elijah Anderson 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4097-9 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
