Category: Current Affairs

Author Q&A: Gerald Izenberg

Today, we have a guest post featuring an interview with Gerald Izenberg, Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the recently-published Identity: The Necessity… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: Back to school

The academic year is just starting back up, and Penn Press has released a range of titles in July and August that will prove enriching for students and scholars of… READ MORE

Bananas, Blight, and Biotechnology

Today, we have an exciting guest post from Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and coauthor with Lois Roberts of  Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs, which challenges the perception that multinational… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: Summer reading

May and June have seen an array of new Penn Press titles on topics ranging from the history of workplace feminism to Islamic architecture and beyond—just in time for summer!… READ MORE

The Nature of Workplace Rights

Katherine Turk, author of Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, joins us for a guest post today. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision,… READ MORE