IT'S HERE! Our 2026 Summer Reading Sale begins today and runs through June 12. Save 40% on available books from pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER26 and save 25% on individual journal subscriptions with code SUMMERJOURNAL26 in our journals cart! https://www.pennpress.org/2026-summer-reading-sale/

We're all set up at the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies! Pay us a visit in the book exhibit if you're attending, or head to our virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code ICMS26 (expires June 16!). https://bit.ly/3PIwSjE #kzooicms #icms #medievalstudies #medievalsky

We are excited to share the news that we will publish the International Bulletin of Mission Research, a leading journal in the fields of world Christianity and mission studies, beginning in 2027! https://bit.ly/4tthJk5

Graduate students, don't miss this #CFP for @jhideas.bsky.social#CFPs graduate symposium, to be held via Zoom on October 17! The theme for this year’s symposium is “Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity" & proposals are due on June 22. https://bit.ly/4dkoDlL

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Read our #Spring2026 #EAS journal issue, now on Project MUSE ! Available here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56826. @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social

Congratulations to John Craig Hammond, whose book THE CENTRALITY OF SLAVERY received an honorable mention for the Jon Gjerde Prize from @midwesternhistory.bsky.social! https://bit.ly/4thFr2B

We are so thrilled to share the news that Isadora Moura Mota's book FREEDOM'S HORIZON has won the Roberto Reis Book Award, granted by the Brazilian Studies Association! Congratulations, Isadora! More about the book here: https://bit.ly/4tqRJ98

Congratulations to author Alice von Bieberstein, whose book Congratulations to author Alice von Bieberstein, whose book TEMPTATIONS IN RUIN has received an honorable mention for the MSA First Book Award, granted by @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social! Learn more about the book: https://bit.ly/4wfWgxJ

Check out our interview with Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social about her new book Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America #MaterialCulture @pennpress.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Congratulations to Jordan B. Smith, whose book THE INVENTION OF RUM has been shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, honoring the year's best book in eighteenth-century studies, granted by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University! Learn more about the book: https://bit.ly/4e7csuJ

Boston-area followers: Don't miss author Bob Frishman discussing his book EDWARD DUFFIELD, the first comprehensive study of the life and times of the titular colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, TODAY at the Boston Athenaeum at 6 p.m. ET! More info & tickets: https://bit.ly/4dnQTFb

Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 7, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56409 @projectmuse.bsky.social @jhideas.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social @leamundi.bsky.social @stewartian.bsky.social @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @shrutibalaji.bsky.social

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Don't miss the new special issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft on "Digital Magic, Digitized Magic"! Read the introduction (https://bit.ly/3QZbO8M) and an article on musician & artist Genesis P-Orridge (https://bit.ly/4ertF2b) for free now through July 22!

We're thrilled to announce that the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies has published its first issue with Penn Press! Read it for free here: https://bit.ly/4cTkrJE

"An essential resource for numerous disciplines. . . . This excellent book belongs in every college library." - @choicereviews.bsky.social on @m-r-glass.bsky.social's CRACKED FOUNDATIONS

As I prepare to cross back over the ocean to wrap up the semester, I’m posting snaps of our book in the wild at the @pennpress.bsky.social OAH book exhibit. What a joy to be in such great company and to catch up with friends old and new!

Congratulations to Jordan B. Smith, whose book THE INVENTION OF RUM has been shortlisted for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship, granted by Kitchen Arts and Letters! https://bit.ly/4e7csuJ

I’m still processing last week @oah.org in Philly, and the joy of getting to celebrate #BlackPowerInc with friends and colleagues. Thanks to everyone who attended our book roundtable and book party. A special thanks to my editor, Bob Lockhart, for believing in me and the work @pennpress.bsky.social

Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society, is seeking submissions now for a special issue on Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the Black intellectual tradition! Read the #CFP for more info: https://bit.ly/42kS6Xw

If you're attending #OAH26, come visit us at booth 408 in the the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday April 18, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between noon and 5 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

Don't miss author William E. Scheuerman discussing his new book PROPERTY DISOBEDIENCE AS PROTEST in an "Author Meets Critics" event at Indiana University Bloomington tomorrow (Friday, April 17) at 12 p.m. ET! More info: https://bit.ly/4cxqDGW

We're all set up here in Philly for @oah.org's annual meeting! Come visit us in booth 408 in the book exhibit if you're attending, or check out our #OAH26 virtual exhibit store, where you can save 40% on all books with code OAH26 (expires May 19)! https://bit.ly/3OjA5pj

NYC-area followers: Jordan B. Smith will give a talk on his book THE INVENTION OF RUM at @theitps.bsky.social tomorrow, April 15, at 6 p.m. ET! Learn more & register here: bit.ly/41h6K1B

Don't miss @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social discussing BLACK POWER, INC., her new book tracing the rise of Black empowerment politics in the United States and Africa, in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at Wooden Shoe Books tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. ET! https://bit.ly/3OoFNpQ

ICYMI: @choicereviews.bsky.social recently highlighted @randybrowne.bsky.social's THE DRIVER'S STORY, which they selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025, with a snippet review in a round-up on their website! https://bit.ly/3Q5VcMk

ICYMI: Get acquainted with Matthew Ritger's new book HOUSES OF CORRECTION in this post on his Substack! The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions, HOUSES OF CORRECTION is out now https://bit.ly/4ty7qM2

Congratulations to Laura K. Muñoz, whose book DESERT DREAMS has received an Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award, granted by the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (@naccsorg.bsky.social)! https://bit.ly/3D2zWAQ

Philly-area followers: Don't miss @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social discussing her new book BLACK POWER, INC., which traces the rise of Black empowerment politics in the United States and Africa, with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at Wooden Shoe Books next Wednesday, April 15! https://bit.ly/3OoFNpQ

I have finally secured physical copies for all four of the first books my former students put out this year so you people are going to hear about them again.

NYC-area followers: Don't miss Jordan B. Smith discussing THE INVENTION OF RUM at @theitps.bsky.social on Wednesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. ET! Learn more & register here: https://bit.ly/41h6K1B

EVENT: Babak Rahimi will discuss his new book SENSE OF MOURNING at the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center on Thursday April 9! Register now to reserve your spot https://bit.ly/3Q4cGZn

Congratulations to author Caitlin Reed Wiesner, whose book BETWEEN THE STREET AND THE STATE has won the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, granted by @oah.org! https://bit.ly/4clsqzL

ICYMI: @m-r-glass.bsky.social recently discussed his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS with @ryanreft.bsky.social for @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's blog The Metropole! Read on to learn more about how debt financing made suburban life unsteady and precarious from the very beginning. https://bit.ly/47IjBh0

We're all set up at @saaupdates.bsky.social's annual meeting! Come visit us in the book exhibit if you're attending, or head to our #Shax2026 virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code SHAKESPEARE26 (expires May 4) https://www.pennpress.org/conferences/shakespeare/

The Franklin's Faves section of our website offers a rotating slate of Penn Press books available for *75% off*, and we've just updated the selection! Browse these 20 great titles and use code FRANKLINSFAVES at checkout to save https://www.pennpress.org/franklins-faves/

"In 1717 two African princes were sold into slavery. Navigating London society and the machinations of the East India and Royal African Companies, they negotiated a path home." Don't miss this essay from Lindsay O'Neill (author, THE TWO PRINCES OF MPFUMO) on @historytoday.com https://bit.ly/3ObisrA

Congratulations to author Katherine J. Parkin, whose book THE ABORTION MARKET has won the Ralph Gomory Prize and been named a finalist for the Hagley Prize in Business History, both granted by @businesshistoryc.bsky.social! https://bit.ly/46kfF5N

Philly followers: Tomorrow, April 1, author Jordan B. Smith will discuss his book THE INVENTION OF RUM in the event "Fish and Rum in the Atlantic World" hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Department of History! More info: https://www.history.upenn.edu/node/16039

Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have an Ask Me Anything with @singingarchives.bsky.social for Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting: A Social History of the Modern Voice. Come check it out! @pennpress.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

It was fun chatting about my @pennpress.bsky.social book with @ryanreft.bsky.social for the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social blog. We talked about everything from Leave It To Beaver to critical race theory and Trump's crazy proposal for 50-year mortgages. Great conversation!

It's your last chance to save 50% on all available books on pennpress.org with our Founder's Day flash sale! Use code FOUNDERSDAY26 at checkout by midnight tonight in your time zone to receive the discount

Ends today! Go forth and buy some books!

Check out the Founders Day sale at @pennpress.bsky.social!!! 50% off all books, including this one! 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

We're all set up at the African American Intellectual History Society's 2026 conference! Come visit us in the book exhibit if you're attending, or visit our #AAIHS2026 virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code AAIHS26 at checkout! https://www.pennpress.org/conferences/aaihs/

speaking of which - work by many friends and colleagues including @meganlcook.bsky.social & Tim Stewart-Winter and more and my own book Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt all at 50% of the $ and 100% of the scholarship!

@pennpress.bsky.social has a 50% off flash sale right now!

FOUNDER'S DAY FLASH SALE! Today and tomorrow, save 50% on all available titles on pennpress.org with code FOUNDERSDAY26 as we celebrate the anniversary of our incorporation on March 26, 1890.

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