University of Pennsylvania Press

03/22/2025

Our 2025 Women's History Month sale ends on March 31! Browse our collection & use code PENN-WHM2025 for 40% off paperbacks and hardcovers and code PENN-WHM2025-E for 50% off ebooks!

March is Women's History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing a collection of books in women's history and studies that we have published in the past five years and offe...

03/22/2025

Authors Rebecca Lemon (Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England), Carla Mazzio (Histories of the Future), and Benjamin VanWagoner (Imperial Ventures) stopped by our booth at / & snapped a pic with Associate Editor Jenny Tan!

03/21/2025

If you're attending / , come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday 3/22, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

03/21/2025

If you're attending , come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday 3/22, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

03/20/2025

Are you attending The Medieval Academy of America's 2025 annual meeting in Boston? So are we! Come visit us in the book exhibit, or check out our virtual exhibit store for special discounts on books and journals: https://site.pennpress.org/maa-2025/

03/20/2025

We are all set up at the Renaissance Society of America and the Shakespeare Association of America's joint meeting! Come visit our booth in the book exhibit if you're attending, or check out our / virtual exhibit store for special discounts on relevant books and journals.

https://site.pennpress.org/rsa-saa-2025/

03/19/2025

Jack Jackson's LAW WITHOUT FUTURE (now available in paperback!) is cited in Jamelle Bouie's column in The New York Times Opinion Section today.

https://nyti.ms/4hkR0Ae

Where all this goes is still up to us.

03/17/2025

We're thrilled to learn that an article from the debut issue of our new journal Global Black Thought ("Exposing the Racial Illogics of Jim Crow Segregation: Mary Church Terrell’s Situational Resistance" by Sabrina Evans) has won the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society!

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We are pleased to announce the 2025 AAIHS award winners—recipients of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowships, and the Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize! Winners were recently honored at the 2025 AAIHS conference, co-spon...

03/15/2025

Don't forget to check out our Women's History Month collection, on sale through the end of March! 40% off paperbacks and hardcovers + 50% off ebooks!

March is Women's History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing a collection of books in women's history and studies that we have published in the past five years and offe...

03/14/2025

WE'RE HIRING! Penn Press's Marketing department is seeking a Publicity and Exhibits Coordinator to manage conference sales and publicity efforts for our books and journals.

Learn more & apply: https://bit.ly/3Xxmz2A

03/14/2025

We're all set up at the African American Intellectual History Society's annual meeting! Come visit our booth in the book exhibit if you're attending, or head to our virtual exhibit store for 40% off all books and special discounts on journals!

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

03/13/2025

A new article from The Atlantic explores the story of Albert C. Barnes and the Barnes Foundation, and cites Neil L. Rudenstine's THE HOUSE OF BARNES, recently republished by the American Philosophical Society Press!

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Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.

03/13/2025

LISTEN: Author Melissa Vise discusses her new book THE UNRULY TONGUE, which analyzes how a new political ethics of speech emerged in medieval Italy, on New Books Network's Medieval History podcast!

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-unruly-tongue

03/12/2025

In a Q&A for Print Magazine, author Edward Tenner discusses his new book WHY THE HINDENBURG HAD A SMOKING LOUNGE and examines the history of promising inventions that took a bad turn.

Why did the Hindenburg have a smoking lounge?!

03/12/2025

Our friends at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, whose journal Huntington Library Quarterly we publish, have published a fascinating article on the recent discovery of long-lost 15th-century prints that were originally bound within their Gutenberg Bible!

The Huntington’s Gutenberg Bible reunites with a long-lost 15th-century print, prompting a close look at scholarly clues hidden in the book’s margins.

03/12/2025

This month, get 2012–13 fellow Elisheva Baumgarten's book, Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages on sale with the University of Pennsylvania Press Women's History Month sale! Use code PENN-WHM2025 to get 40% off this Jewish Culture and Contexts book.
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253580/biblical-women-and-jewish-daily-life-in-the-middle-ages/

03/11/2025

Don't forget: On March 26, Director of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania Kathleen Hall Jamieson will discuss her new book, REALIZING THE PROMISE AND MINIMIZING THE PERILS OF AI FOR SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, in a virtual event hosted by Penn Alumni!

Learn more & register today: https://bit.ly/4ia1V0m

03/10/2025

Don't miss out on our Women's History Month sale! 40% off paperbacks and hardcovers + 50% off ebooks for all books featured in our collection, from now through the end of March:

March is Women's History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing a collection of books in women's history and studies that we have published in the past five years and offe...