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01/24/2025

Did you know that you can now buy ebooks on pennpress.org? Use code PENN-EBOOKS for 45% off all available ebooks through January 31!

01/24/2025

Bay Area followers: This Monday 1/27, don't miss author Roni Henig discussing her book ON REVIVAL in the 4th Annual Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies at Stanford University's Taube Center for Jewish Studies!

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The 4th Annual Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies Date: Monday | January 27 Time: 4:00 - 5:15 pm Place: CCSRE Conference Room (Bldg. 360, 1st floor) Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at New York University, Roni Henig is the author of On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and De...

01/24/2025

Are you enjoying ? Don't forget to check out our virtual exhibit store, featuring 40% off books with code BSA25 plus special discounts on journals: https://site.pennpress.org/bsa-2025/

01/23/2025

EVENT: Author Bradley J. Dixon will discuss his new book REPUBLIC OF INDIANS in a virtual talk hosted by the History Department, Florida Atlantic University!

More info: https://ow.ly/KZJ650UMaH7

01/23/2025

LISTEN: Author Catherine Ross discusses her book A RIGHT TO LIE? with Joan Esposito on WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk:

Joan is joined by Catherine Ross, professor of law at George Washington University and author of A Right to Lie? Presidents, Other Liars, and the First Amendment. Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-loc...

01/23/2025

LISTEN: Gloria McCahon Whiting's BELONGING, which explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery, was featured on GBH's The Culture Show Podcast!

Today on The Culture Show we continue our series, “Countdown to 2026,” with historian Catherine Allgor leading the way. This month she focuses on slavery in Boston and Massachusetts and how much a part of life it was and how central it was to the business of trade and Boston's economic structure...

01/22/2025

Ebooks are now available on pennpress.org! Read more about this exciting news on our blog (https://ow.ly/6mkW50ULaRF) and use code PENN-EBOOKS for 45% off all available ebooks from now through January 31!

01/21/2025

Don't forget: This Thursday 1/23, Penn Institute for Urban Research hosts a hybrid in-person & virtual event featuring Enrique Peñalosa Londoño discussing his book EQUALITY AND THE CITY with a panel of his fellow authors of titles in the City in the 21st Century book series!

More info: ow.ly/J68o50UHX5O

01/20/2025

Two Penn Press books for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, each of which takes a distinct perspective on MLK and the context around his life and work:

FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS: https://ow.ly/sbFv50UILhZ

RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: https://ow.ly/lAN250UILi0

01/16/2025

Join Penn Press and the Penn Institute for Urban Research on Thursday 1/23 for a hybrid in-person and virtual event featuring Enrique Peñalosa Londoño, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, discussing his book EQUALITY AND THE CITY with a panel of his fellow authors of titles in the City in the 21st Century book series!

More info: https://ow.ly/xgyN50UHX5N

01/16/2025

Netherlands followers: Don't miss author Marsha Henry discussing her book THE END OF PEACEKEEPING in a lecture at Utrecht University this evening!

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In this Doing Gender lecture, Marsha Henry will argue for applying feminist and postcolonial perspectives to peacekeeping studies.

01/15/2025

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01/14/2025

LISTEN: Author Martin Woessner discusses his book TERRENCE MALICK AND THE EXAMINED LIFE with film critic and fellow Malick biographer John Bleasdale on the Writers on Film podcast!

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01/13/2025

Bay Area followers: Don't miss author Sarah Keyes discussing her book AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University tomorrow, Tuesday 1/14, at 4:30 p.m. PT!

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In her talk, Sarah Keyes will present her new interpretation of the mid-nineteenth century overland migration to the Pacific. In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Or...

01/11/2025

If you're attending , come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Sunday 1/12, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

01/11/2025

EVENT: Don't miss author Susan H. Brandt giving discussing her book WOMEN HEALERS, which explores the stories of women who provided health care in early Philadelphia, in a virtual event hosted by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia this Tuesday 1/14 at 6 p.m. ET!

More info: https://ow.ly/Hu5150UEzLx

01/10/2025

Author Jennie Lightweis-Goff (CAPITVE CITY) stopped by our booth!

If you're in New Orleans, don't forget about her event tomorrow: https://ow.ly/391550UEyIV

01/10/2025

We are all set up at the Modern Language Association's annual meeting! If you're attending, come visit us in booth A111 in the book exhibit, or check out our virtual exhibit store and use code MLA25 to save 40% on books, plus find special discounts on journals!

https://site.pennpress.org/mla-2025/