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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)! bit.ly/3HGXnly
19.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do we owe to the memory of enslaved people when we study the mechanics of slavery?
In this BFW episode, we discuss the business of slavery—but center the human cost.
Start listening now: benfranklinsworld.com/418
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Congratulations to author Adam Lovett, whose book Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy has been longlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy, granted by @triphilosophy.bsky.social! bit.ly/4lwr5rp
15.08.2025 19:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The second issue of our open-access journal Pasados is here! An initiative of @artepublico.bsky.social's Recovery program, Pasados is a peer-reviewed publication with a focus on Latinx cultural pasts. Check out the issue on @jstor.bsky.social today: bit.ly/419A3Ue
14.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
LISTEN: Author @randybrowne.bsky.social discusses his award-winning book THE DRIVER'S STORY—a compelling account of drivers, who were at the very center of enslaved people’s working lives, social relationships, & struggles—on the @bfworld.bsky.social podcast! benfranklinsworld.com/episode-418-...
13.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New on the @amphilsociety.bsky.social blog, Penn Press Acquisitions Assistant Jon Repetti dives deep into the 1964 @amphilpress.bsky.social title Fish-Shape Paumanok, in which author Robert Cushman Murphy contemplates the relationship between man and nature on his native Long Island: bit.ly/4oxy9Xg
11.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The #Summer2025 #EAS issue is now openly accessible on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
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Benjamin Pietrenka’s #Summer2025 #EAS article explores radical German Pietists' use of scripture translation to support rituals like baptism & foot washing, shaping Protestant diversity in the early US. http://bit.ly/45aYhQh
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Penn Press's 2025 catalog is here! Learn more about the great books we have coming this season in subjects like American history, medieval & early modern studies, Jewish studies, anthropology, human rights, African American studies, and beyond!
09.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Thrilled to see Spirals in the Caribbean reviewed by Lucy Swanson in French Studies:
“A masterful and compelling work of scholarship… illuminating the Afro-indigenous struggle for freedom that unites the island’s history.”
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Read our #Summer2025 #EAS journal issue on @projectmuse.bsky.social Link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Book—Marc Herman’s After Revelation—on couch with curious gray cat
From today’s mail!!
07.08.2025 19:23 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our Fall 2025 catalog is here! Check out this season's new releases, from a new 3-volume popular history of the Philadelphia area to books about hybrid work, the early modern rum trade, black politics in Atlanta, debt's role in suburban growth & inequality, and more!
Browse the PDF: bit.ly/4m8rvW4
The @pennpress.bsky.social Fall catalog is out.
I feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when the phone book is released.
This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
07.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 59 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 2
Did you know that the fifth and final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years' War is finally here? Order your copy today! bit.ly/3J4VgIC
06.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📚 Thrilled to share that my review of Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague (Penn Press, 2022) is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly!
A powerful study of how Italian Jewish communities responded to the 1630–32 plague—researched during COVID-19.
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New issue of Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 86, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55312 @projectmuse.bsky.social @jhideas.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social @rstromolsen.bsky.social
04.08.2025 01:19 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Michael Leja's new book A FLOOD OF PICTURES, featuring 140+ color illustrations, explores how the new and widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a 19th-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words.
Learn more & order your copy: bit.ly/4l3Noo1
The latest issue of the journal is now available online, including articles by Luuk de Boer, Kaarlo Havu, Kirsten Macfarlane, Ingrid Schreiber, Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris, and Sophie Scott-Brown. Happy reading!
01.08.2025 18:12 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Looking for teaching ideas? Explore our Teaching EAS section, where educators share assignments, strategies, and reflections on the craft of teaching early America. Browse here: bit.ly/44G7638
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LISTEN: On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's History podcast, Michael Stauch discusses his book WILDCAT OF THE STREETS (available for pre-order!), which explores how Black youth in 1970s-80s Detroit made claims for political equality amid the rise of community policing. bit.ly/44YsfqK
31.07.2025 20:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Penn Press's journals program has lots of exciting things coming in 2026, including a new journal joining our roster and expansions in our Open Access efforts. Learn more in this news round-up on the blog: bit.ly/4ffiZC0
30.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
TOMORROW: Join us for part two of the African American Intellectual History Society's webinar celebrating the recent launch of our new journal Global Black Thought, Wednesday 7/30 at 2 p.m. EDT!
More info: bit.ly/4lvYEuq
Register: bit.ly/45beRPP
Today, Phillies legend Dick Allen was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Penn Press staff celebrated at the Dick Allen mural in South Philly with bobbleheads and copies of Mitchell Nathanson's 2016 biography of Allen, GOD ALMIGHTY HISSELF (bit.ly/4o5QHxK)!
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Today, Phillies legend Dick Allen was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Penn Press staff celebrated at the Dick Allen mural in South Philly with bobbleheads and copies of Mitchell Nathanson's 2016 biography of Allen, GOD ALMIGHTY HISSELF (bit.ly/4o5QHxK)!
#HOFWKND
Don't miss part two of the African American Intellectual History Society's webinar celebrating the recent launch of our new journal Global Black Thought, this Wednesday 7/30 at 2 p.m. EDT!
More info: bit.ly/4lvYEuq
Register: bit.ly/45beRPP
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23.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Front Cover: Front and back cover image: Washington, DC, Library of Congress, M2147 XVI M3 (MS 38), fol. 1v.
New issue of Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55231 @projectmuse.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social #openaccess @sophiekelly59.bsky.social @themedievaldrk.bsky.social @ana0dias.bsky.social @madpoli.bsky.social
21.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 4
