10/01/2009
We're kicking off the second season of Penn Press podcasts with Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare… READ MORE
09/22/2009
Sometimes fiction is stranger than the truth. Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh’s Notorious Burke and Hare, and of the Man… READ MORE
09/02/2009
In the September podcast historian Steven Conn, author of Do Museums Still Need Objects? talks about how American museums have changed over the twentieth century and what roles these popular… READ MORE
07/09/2009
Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation Regina Lee Blaszczyk 224 pages | 10 x 10 | 150 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4189-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Based on… READ MORE
05/29/2009
Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space Joan Johnson-Freese 192 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4169-3 | $29.95 | £19.50 In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays… READ MORE
03/13/2009
The Women's History Month bloggers' roundtable discussion of Judith M. Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism continues to pick up steam. Earlier this week, blogger Historiann picked… READ MORE
03/05/2009
"It is appropriate that a commentary on the possible futures and dangers associated with owning parts of the body — a discussion anchored in biology as information — should be… READ MORE
02/12/2009
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Robert Darwin's birth. Here in Philadelphia, there are many ways to celebrate, including this year's Darwin Day Free Evolutionary Teach In at the… READ MORE
12/11/2008
Has the economic downturn and holiday shopping made you a little stressed out? In the following essay, Megan J. Elias, historian and author of Stir It Up: Home Economics in… READ MORE
10/15/2008
Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry Eric J. Vettel 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3947-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2008… READ MORE
