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A Brief History of Doom

Today we have a guest post form Richard Vague, a managing partner of Gabriel Investments, Chairman of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, and author of 2014’s The Next Economic Disaster: Why… READ MORE

Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2018 catalog!

Exciting new titles this season include: Slavery in the North by Marc Howard Ross, which looks at how northerners collectively forgot 250 years of human bondage and the recent—and continuing—struggles… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: Summer is here

Welcome to summer! Don’t miss our latest round-up of new titles, including a history of Washington, D.C.-area environmental activism, an exploration of medieval Jewish responses to the plague, an ethnographic… READ MORE

Disability and the Right to Digital Information

Today we have a guest post from Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein, co-editors of Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology. Lazar is Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University… READ MORE

In Memoriam: Nina Auerbach

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Nina Auerbach’s passing. Auerbach was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English until her 2010 retirement, and was a noted… READ MORE