12/19/2014
James Gigantino is the author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865. Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth… READ MORE
12/09/2014
Jean Soderlund is the author of Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn. In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the… READ MORE
09/13/2013
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Faulkner 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4321-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
08/12/2013
Someone at New Books Network likes us. They've just posted two new interviews with Penn Press biography authors. Heath Brown interviewed Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern… READ MORE
06/10/2013
Last Friday, Penn Press Director Eric Halpern and Marketing Director Laura Waldron traveled out to Harrisburg, PA, to visit the Midtown Scholar bookstore. The owners, Cathy Lawrence and Eric Papenfuse,… READ MORE
05/10/2013
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From… READ MORE
Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, by economic development consultant Gregory L. Heller, is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. “Edmund Bacon, probably… READ MORE
04/10/2013
Blinder Panhaas is a great dish for the frugal cook to have in her repertoire: the recipe is essentially a means to turn leftover cooking stock and some basic kitchen staples into a tasty accompaniment
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
