02/05/2008
Marcy Sacks, author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, guides New York Times reporter John Strausbaugh through the Manhattan’s San Juan Hill… READ MORE
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
12/21/2007
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Fay A. Yarbrough 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
12/20/2007
Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Jason Chambers 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4047-4 | $39.95… READ MORE
12/04/2007
The Modern Language Association of America is awarding its fourteenth annual Prize for a First Book to Sean X. Goudie for Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of… READ MORE
11/20/2007
History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE
11/13/2007
More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE
10/01/2007
From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century John T. Cumbler 280 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4026-9… READ MORE
09/17/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson earned an "Essential" summing up in the September volume of Choice magazine. "Anderson provides an excellent… READ MORE
09/13/2007
The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE
