09/07/2012
In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform John P. Spencer 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4435-9… READ MORE
09/04/2012
In the September Penn Press podcast, Albert J. Churella, Associate Professor in the Social and International Studies Department at Southern Polytechnic State University and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume… READ MORE
08/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for August… READ MORE
07/09/2012
C. Dallett Hemphill, Professor of History at Ursinus College, is the new editor of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
06/18/2012
Barring a miraculous rebirth of neighborhood real estate markets, city officials should think twice before creating more vacant lots.
06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
06/05/2012
Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4239-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
For a preview of our Fall 2012 books, take a look at the latest catalog in glorious PDF. Our forthcoming books cover an array of subjects, from medieval letters to… READ MORE
05/21/2012
The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.
04/27/2012
Today's Wildlife of the Week are the Greater and Lesser Scaup, featured in John H. Rappole's book, Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic, now in paperback. These attractive ducks are quite common… READ MORE
