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09/23/2025

Congratulations to author Katherine J. Parkin on a great launch event for her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, which reveals how businesses & businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experiences of millions of women from 1962-72.

Order your copy now! https://bit.ly/46kfF5N

09/22/2025

EVENT: Michael Leja will discuss his new book A FLOOD OF PICTURES, which explores how the new and widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a 19th-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words, at the Wagner Free Institute of Science this Thursday!

Learn how illustrations, photographs and other visual communications came to permeate everyday lives and experiences in the United States.

09/20/2025

Congratulations to author Omer Aijazi, whose book ATMOSPHERIC VIOLENCE has been shortlisted for the Muslim World Book Award, granted by the Muslim World Book Review!

https://bit.ly/4lALFat

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongs...

09/19/2025

Don't forget to check out our Back to School Sale, featuring a selection of over 200 paperbacks—including longtime course favorites and recent highlights—available for 50% off with code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout!

Announcing Penn Press’s 2025 Back to School Sale! From September 17 through September 30, customers will receive 50% off select paperbacks when you order right here from pennpress.org! Below, browse... READ MORE

09/18/2025

Congratulations to author Randy M. Browne, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the Digital Initiative!

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

09/18/2025

Penn Press and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies are delighted to announce that The Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!

Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue

09/17/2025

It's time for our 2025 Back to School Sale! Enjoy 50% off select paperbacks, from longtime course favorites to recent highlights (including nearly 40 new titles added since last year's sale!).

Browse the collection & use code PENNSCHOOL25 to save!

Announcing Penn Press’s 2025 Back to School Sale! From September 17 through September 30, customers will receive 50% off select paperbacks when you order right here from pennpress.org! Below, browse... READ MORE

09/16/2025

"People listening to me speak on my research often ask why pirates do not factor more prominently." Read Jordan B. Smith's exploration of his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM and the surprisingly limited role piracy plays in its take on the history of rum.

Over time, the history of what was consumed in those taverns became more interesting to me than a rather limited subset of drinkers.

09/12/2025

We're all set up at , so if you're attending, come visit us in the Ingram booth at the book exhibit!

You can also check out our selection of books and save 40% with code APSA25 at our virtual exhibit store: https://site.pennpress.org/apsa-2025/

09/12/2025

Next week, Penn Press authors Georgina Wilson (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and Whitney Sperrazza (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!

09/10/2025

EVENT: Don't miss author Isadora Moura Mota discussing her book FREEDOM'S HORIZON, a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil, at Princeton's Brazil LAB today at 4:30 p.m. ET!

Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across...

09/09/2025

It's almost time for the American Political Science Association's 2025 annual meeting! Check out our virtual exhibit store to see our latest political science titles, and use code APSA25 to save 40%!

It’s time for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, and Penn Press is offering discounts on relevant titles and journals here at our virtual exhibit store!