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10/29/2025

Philly-area followers: Don't miss the exhibition Whose Story? Narratives of Philadelphia's History at Paul Robeson Library - Rutgers Camden, which incorporates research from GREATER PHILADELPHIA: A NEW HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. On display through 11/16! https://bit.ly/3LxUzIW

10/28/2025

Explore the people and places that define Greater Philadelphia—famous, forgotten, and everything in between. Philadelphia’s past is still shaping its present and future, and GREATER PHILADELPHIA: A NEW HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY tells the story.

https://www.pennpress.org/greater-philadelphia/

10/28/2025

Don't miss a special event featuring the authors of THE INVENTION OF RUM and COFFEE NATION discussing the historical impact of two very different beverages in the early modern era—Weds, Nov. 5 at The Library Company of Philadelphia with rum & coffee-based refreshments!

Strong. Cheap. Habit-forming. In the early modern era two very different beverages flooded American markets and palettes, each in their own way transforming tastes, leisure time, and even health. Rum and coffee connected North American markets and consumers to Caribbean plantation economies and A...

10/27/2025

Our final Author Meets Critics (AMC) session amplifies Dr. Laurian R/ Bowles' "Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra"! We welcome attendees to explore how this project uses African and Black feminist theory and method in a carefully crafted study of the lifeworlds of kayayei, young women head porters in Makola Market who are “chronotopes of modernity who help assemble the racial and spatial logics of gendered trade.”

Join Dr. Bowles and invited critics to explore this text, unpack its contributions to our field, and enjoy light refreshments alongside rich conversation on Sunday, November 16th at 11:30 AM AT!

10/24/2025

Philly-area followers: Don't miss our slate of upcoming events celebrating the release of GREATER PHILADELPHIA!

Learn more about the project & get your copies at https://www.pennpress.org/greater-philadelphia/

10/24/2025

New on the blog: Sharing the results of Penn Press' participation in via Project MUSE. Happy International !

It's International Open Access Week (October 20 to 26, 2025), a time when Open Access supporters in the research community share their experiences making

10/23/2025

Congratulations to author Tehseen Thaver, whose book BEYOND SECTARIANISM, which presents a thorough reevaluation of sectarian approaches to the Qur’an commentary tradition, has recently received honorable mentions or been a finalist for three different awards!

10/23/2025

Happy 2025! Did you know that The Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)? In case you missed it, learn more from the official announcement on our blog:

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

10/23/2025

ICYMI: Last week, author Susanna Trnka discussed her new book HEALTHIZATION, which explores cultural shifts in ideas about what health and being healthy looks like, on RNZ. Listen now!

This phenomenon is the subject of a new book by social anthropologist Professor Susanna Trnka from the University of Auckland.