04/08/2008
Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE
03/20/2008
A recent Newsweek Web article opens with the following line: As Sen. Barack Obama deals with the fallout of controversial remarks by his pastor, a noted historian explains how the… READ MORE
03/18/2008
In an HNN.us commentary, “God Damn America” in Black and White, Penn Press author and historian Edward J. Blum places the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s controversial oratory in the historical context… READ MORE
02/28/2008
The Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s Jews Edited by Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4064-1 | $55.00… READ MORE
02/06/2008
This month, Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, will visit campuses across the country to discuss the legacy of the renown scholar and activist…. READ MORE
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
01/02/2008
Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England Katherine Zieman 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth Dec 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4051-1 | $59.95… READ MORE
12/20/2007
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance Christopher MacEvitt 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4050-4 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
12/19/2007
Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England Jennifer Bryan 280 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4048-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE
12/17/2007
Penn Press author and editor Steven Conn criticizes Mitt Romney’s recent speech on the place of religion in politics. According to Conn, Romney’s attack on "’the religion of secularlism’. …. READ MORE
