04/03/2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell 464 pages |… READ MORE
03/26/2012
On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE
12/07/2011
Why Don't American Cities Burn? Michael B. Katz 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4386-4 | $29.95 | £19.50 A volume in the… READ MORE
12/01/2011
In the December 2011 Penn Press podcast, Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the history of urban inequality, the significance of… READ MORE
08/25/2011
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4123-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2011… READ MORE
08/12/2011
Penn Press staff practice many ways of dispelling darkness besides publishing books and journals. Some of us are accomplished musicians. If you want proof and you're looking for something to… READ MORE
08/09/2011
Gray Panthers Roger Sanjek 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4137-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2191-6 | $26.50 |… READ MORE
08/03/2011
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
07/07/2011
It's no joke. The regional offshoot of The Onion's A.V. Club mentions a Penn Press book on medieval history in a review of an album by Philadelphia's "metal, hardcore punk,… READ MORE
05/16/2011
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Faulkner 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4321-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
