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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!

09/08/2025

Penn Press is moving to a new office this week, and as everyone knows, the worst thing to move is BOOKS (which we had just a few more of than usual...). Here's a glimpse of all the books we have had to pack, sell, give away, or archive as we prepared to head to our new digs!

09/04/2025

Kendra Boyd recently discussed her groundbreaking new book FREEDOM ENTERPRISE, which traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit, on Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast.

Listen: https://bit.ly/4lZcHbe

09/02/2025

"One of the most important books on Black internationalism to appear in decades."

Learn more about R. Joseph Parrott's DREAM THE SIZE OF FREEDOM & get your copy today!

How anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970sDr...

08/27/2025

ICYMI: Don't forget to check out our Fall 2025 catalog, featuring great new books in American history, medieval & early modern studies, Jewish studies, anthropology, and more! https://bit.ly/4fTPaY0

08/26/2025

Katherine J. Parkin will launch her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, which reveals how businesses & businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experiences of millions of women from 1962-72, at the Asbury Book Cooperative on Sept. 20 at 5 p.m. ET—get your tickets now! https://bit.ly/4oTuzH8

08/25/2025

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08/21/2025

Congratulations to author Jennifer Rushworth, whose book PROUST'S SONGBOOK has been shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize, which honors scholarly contributions to our understanding of literature originally in another language!

In Proust’s Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (I...

08/19/2025

Congratulations to Katherine J. Parkin, who recently won the award for Best Scholarly Article in Canadian Business History from the Canadian Business History Association for a co-authored article on subject matter related to her forthcoming book THE ABORTION MARKET (out next month)!

Katherine Parkin, Ph.D., Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History and professor in the Department of History and Anthropology, was awarded Best Scholarly Article in Canadian Business History for her article, “The Business of Abortion: Referral Services, Advertising, and Canadi...