Producing Fashion–Now Available
11/02/2007
Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth Nov 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4037-5 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Category: Essay
The Arts of Democracy–Now Available
10/29/2007
The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State Casey Nelson Blake, Editor 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 45 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4029-0 | $49.95… READ MORE
A View from Our ASA Booth
10/18/2007
Chris Hu from the acquisitions department describes life around and beyond the Penn Press exhibitor booth. Notes from the ASA Meeting in Philadelphia The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American… READ MORE
An Editor Looks Back at the APSA Meeting
09/11/2007
Penn Press editor Bill Finan recalls a few highlights from the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. For aspiring authors who see publishing as a black box,… READ MORE
Learning from Mistakes: A Post from a Penn Press Intern
08/20/2007
In this post, Kristina Snader recalls her first assignment as a Penn Press intern. Sand in the Summer On my first day as an intern (and after getting horrendously lost… READ MORE
Strictly Fiction No Longer: A Post from a Penn Press Intern
07/23/2007
In the following post, Penn Press intern and rising sophomore Jenn Dearden shares her budding interest in scholarly books. Beyond the Fiction Section Whenever I go into a bookstore, I… READ MORE
What Would Du Bois Say?: A Response to Hitchens and Dawkins
05/11/2007
A recent debate between Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton prompted the following essay from Penn Press author Edward J. Blum. Is God Great? Is God a Delusion?: How W. E…. READ MORE
Marking the Birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois
02/22/2007
February 23 is a special day in American, African American, and world history. It is the birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the nation’s greatest intellectual and activist…. READ MORE
Reading Beyond Beloved
02/16/2007
According Gene Andrew Jarrett "not all kinds of African American culture are celebrated in February during Black History Month. Consider literature, for example." In his article Misreading authors by their… READ MORE
Freedom Is One Thing, an Essay by Thomas F. Jackson
01/17/2007
A child born on Martin Luther King’s 39th birthday in 1968 turns 39 this January 15. Perhaps that is enough time to sort out his history and settle the core… READ MORE
