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Monday! Join John Bidwell, author of THE DECLARATION IN SCRIPT AND PRINT, for a lecture as part of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts. The lecture will be held at 5:15pm in the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/events/

Discover groundbreaking new research and essential scholarship in African American and Africana studies through our Black History Month sale! Enter code BHM26 at checkout to save 30–60%. Sale ends 3/1. Offer available on US orders only. https://bit.ly/4bBcmKw

Free read through 2/28 from THE LANGSTON HUGHES REVIEW: A look at how Hughes and Shange’s poetry both archives the oppression of the Jim Crow era and resists it—and enables us to understand the impact they had on transforming the image of Black Americans. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk

In honor of Black History Month, we have put together a list of free reads! Including both free journal articles and open-access books in African American and Africana studies, our Black History Month Free-to-Read Collection will be available through the end of February. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk

Saundra Weddle, author of THE BROTHEL AND BEYOND, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMKzYZcfGk

Serious Nonsense Each time the second day of February comes around, I am reminded of a question that first entered my mind many years ago, "Just what in the name of John James Audubon does whether or not a particular ...

Happy marmot bothering day!

Some mistakenly hold the idea that Germans are staid and humorless, but they can get up to some very serious nonsense when they feel so inclined, hence today's rodent rousting festivities. @psupress.bsky.social #Booksky

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Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin's Russia By Ekaterina V. Haskins Russian state propaganda has framed the invasion of Ukraine as a liberation mission by invoking the Soviet-era myth of the Great Patriotic War (1941–45), in which the Soviet people, led by Russia, saved the world from the greatest evil of the twentieth century. At the same time, the Russian government has banned civil society institutions and initiatives that remind the country of the legacy of Soviet political violence.

Congratulations to Ekaterina V. Haskins, whose book REMEMBERING THE WAR, FORGETTING THE TERROR was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09713-8.html

Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England By Asa Simon Mittman From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to displace.

Congratulations to Asa Simon Mittman, whose book CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09746-6.html

Congratulations to James Grantham Turner, whose article "Milton, Lucretius, and the 'Womb of Nature’" from Milton Studies 66.1 has been awarded the James Holly Hanford Article Award from Milton Society of America!

The full article is free to read through 2/21. https://ow.ly/C8ZT50Y0W5g

Penn State University Press welcomes additions to sales and marketing department | Penn State University Penn State University Press welcomes Abby Naqvi and Katie Luu as the newest members of its Sales and Marketing Department.

Penn State University Press is pleased to welcome the newest additions to our Sales and Marketing Department! Read the full announcement here: https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/penn-state-university-press-welcomes-additions-sales-and-marketing

The winter issue of our newsletter is here! Read on for new books, reviews, journals news, and more: buff.ly/qfeAd9B

❄️The PSU Press offices will be closed for winter break through January 2nd. We'll see you in 2024!❄️

A Year in Reading with Steven Litt We asked Rabkin Prize winners and members of our writing community to share their best reads in 2025.

Steven Litt said that MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL by Samantha Baskind was one of his best reads of 2025!

Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025) - New Books Network Support Kritika | Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

Mayu Fujikawa, author of ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here:

At 15, Journal of Information Policy grows and adapts in changing times | Penn State University Penn State’s Journal of Information Policy is celebrating 15 years as a leading source of research for policymakers and scholars, while continuing to adapt to a fast-changing digital landscape.

Journal of Information Policy (JIP) is celebrating its 15th anniversary! JIP Editor Krishna Jayakar speaks with the Bellisario College of Communications to reflect on the journal's past, and plan for years ahead.

Carrie at 50 Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it…

Last chance! The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!

Tomorrow! Join William E. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, for a book talk at After 8 Books. Find more information here:

Volume 18 Issue 2 | Ecumenica | Scholarly Publishing Collective Ecumenica | 18 | 2 | November 2025

Ecumenica 18.2 just published! It is a special issue titled "Religion and the Right," and is the first issue from the new editor Hank Willenbrink (@hwillenbrink.bsky.social). It has lots of great articles and interesting interviews!

Need last-minute gifts? Look no further! ❄️ Our holiday book sale has begun, and you can save 40% SITEWIDE. If you're shopping through our website, use code HOL25. EU/UK customers, use code HBS25. Sale ends 12/19: bit.ly/449ilS0

Sunday! MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind is the guest speaker at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. Find more details in the flyer.

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural RSA
Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric book proposal workshop will be taking place at RSA in April 2026! You can find more information and apply here: buff.ly/8498Mj7. Applications are due 12/15.

Oliver Wunsch, A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France This handsomely designed and illustrated volume is an original, concise and brilliant study of the concept and nature of delicacy across four eighteenth-ce

"...an original, concise and brilliant study of the concept and nature of delicacy across four eighteenth-century French case-studies and an epilogue." Read the full review of Oliver Wunsch's A DELICATE MATTER from Journal of the History of Collections here:

Late Medieval Central Greece in Turmoil: Thessaly, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries C.E. Abstract. Thessaly’s importance in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, within the framework of the study of medieval Greek history in the final phase of the later Byzantine period…

The article "Late Medieval Central Greece in Turmoil: Thessaly, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries C.E." from Hiperboreea is free to read through 2/21/26! You can find the article here:

Congratulations to THE WOUND AND THE STITCH author Loretta Victoria Ramirez for receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies!

God in Nigeria: the country’s novelists help us understand the complexity of Christianity Nigeria’s Christian population grew by 25% to 93 million from 2010 to 2020. Today’s novels reflect its social complexity.

DECOLONIZING CHRISTIANITIES IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN LITERATURE author Adriaan van Klinken (@adriaan-vanklinken.bsky.social) wrote a piece for The Conversation on how Nigerian novelists help us understand the complexity of Christianity. Read the full piece here:

Singing Words 'Round the Keystone State | Mountain Home Magazine A celebration of regional anthologies.

"KEYSTONE POETRY sings the song of Pennsylvania large and small, in all the dialects of a patchwork quilt state." Read Mountain Home's full article on the poetry anthology:

Penn State University Press announces new series titled 'Troubling Democracy' | Penn State University Penn State University Press has announced a new series, "Troubling Democracy," which provides a dedicated space for scholars working on the past, present and future of democracy.

Penn State University Press is pleased to announce a new series titled "Troubling Democracy." Read the full press release here:

Now published! Take 30% off DECOLONIZING CHRISTIANITIES IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN LITERATURE with discount code NR25: buff.ly/wZUClZc

Congratulations to Felipe Pereda, whose book THE MAN WHO BROKE MICHELANGELO'S NOSE has been named the winner of the 2025 Sheila ffolliott Prize for the Best Book in Art History from The Sixteenth Century Society!

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century - Panorama Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for…

"...an extremely valuable contribution to the field."

Read more of Panorama's review of TASTEMAKERS, COLLECTORS, AND PATRONS here: