IT'S HERE! Issue 1.2 of Global Black Thought, the new journal from @aaihs23 and Penn Press, is now available! Access the new issue via Project MUSE, including two great articles that are free to read

Today is the LAST DAY for our Back to School Sale! Shop our collection of select paperbacks & save 50% with code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/back-to-scho...

Happy #NationalCoffeeDay! We're celebrating by spotlighting Michelle McDonald's meticulously researched, must-read new book COFFEE NATION, which explores how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world. bit.ly/448PrAZ

Our Back to School Sale ends TOMORROW. This is your last chance to save 50% on select paperbacks! Browse the collection & use code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout to receive your discount. www.pennpress.org/back-to-scho...

Our Back to School Sale features more than 200 paperbacks, from popular course titles to new releases, available for 50% off—including nearly 40 new titles not included in last year's sale! Browse the collection and use code PENNSCHOOL25 to save. www.pennpress.org/back-to-scho...

Coming October 21, a landmark book project celebrates Philadelphia’s role as the beating heart of the nation’s story, unearthing hidden histories, points of pride, people, places, & communities in the city & region we all love. Pre-order GREATER PHILADELPHIA today! www.pennpress.org/greater-phil...

Coming October 21, a landmark book project celebrates Philadelphia’s role as the beating heart of the nation’s story, unearthing hidden histories, points of pride, people, places, & communities in the city & region we all love. Pre-order GREATER PHILADELPHIA today! www.pennpress.org/greater-phil...

Just one week left in our Back to School Sale! Browse the sale collection featuring select paperbacks, including course-friendly classics and recent highlights, and use code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout for half off!

Congratulations to author Katherine J. Parkin on a great launch event for her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, which reveals how businesses & businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experiences of millions of women from 1962-72. Order your copy now! bit.ly/46kfF5N

EVENT: Michael Leja will discuss his new book A FLOOD OF PICTURES, which explores how the new and widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a 19th-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words, at the Wagner Free Institute of Science this Thursday! bit.ly/4ngZaNW

Congratulations to author Omer Aijazi, whose book ATMOSPHERIC VIOLENCE has been shortlisted for the Muslim World Book Award, granted by the Muslim World Book Review!

Don't forget to check out our Back to School Sale, featuring a selection of over 200 paperbacks—including longtime course favorites and recent highlights—available for 50% off with code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout!

Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

Includes a large number of titles of possible interest to #medievalsky and #earlymodern folks: 👇 📚

At 50% off, you can get GHOSTS, HOLES, RIPS & SCRAPES for a measly $14.97 and a ha'penny. Quite the steal! Especially since they won't ask you for the ha'penny.

There are some very interesting books included in this new @pennpress.bsky.social sale list, including "The Medical Imagination; Literature and Health in the Early United States" by Prof. Sari Altschuler. #Booksky #HistMed

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Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)! www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

It's time for our 2025 Back to School Sale! Enjoy 50% off select paperbacks, from longtime course favorites to recent highlights (including nearly 40 new titles added since last year's sale!). Browse the collection & use code PENNSCHOOL25 at checkout to save! www.pennpress.org/back-to-scho...

"People listening to me speak on my research often ask why pirates do not factor more prominently." Read Jordan B. Smith's exploration of his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM and the surprisingly limited role piracy plays in its take on the history of rum. bit.ly/4gpGsAV

Thanks @feministkelly.bsky.social for the chance to talk up my forthcoming book on the Unsung History podcast. Listen for a preview of Between the Street and the State (coming out next week from @pennpress.bsky.social) www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/Anti-Rape/

Next month is the book launch event for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS (@pennpress.bsky.social) at the @bpl.boston.gov, where I'll be in conversation with the inimitable Lizabeth Cohen. Hope to see many Boston folks there! Registration here: www.leventhalmap.org/event/author...

We're all set up at #APSA2025, so if you're attending, come visit us at the Ingram booth in the book exhibit! You can also check out our selection of books and save 40% with code APSA25 at our virtual exhibit store: site.pennpress.org/apsa-2025/

Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (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!

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!

It's almost time for @apsa.bsky.social's 2025 annual meeting! Check out our #APSA2025 virtual exhibit store to see our latest political science titles, and use code APSA25 to save 40%! site.pennpress.org/apsa-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!

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: bit.ly/4lZcHbe

"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!

A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...

So, @profkfh.bsky.social, this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆 @pennpress.bsky.social

Have thoughts on how early American studies connect with the present? Pitch a Contemporary Connections piece for EAS Miscellany. We welcome short reflections linking past and present. Details here: http://bit.ly/406MijR #EAS #EarlyAmericaMisc @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social

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!

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!

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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! bit.ly/41gyQKM

EAS Miscellany is more than a journal companion: it’s a hub for fresh takes, teaching ideas, and new scholarship on early America. Explore what we have: http://bit.ly/4nwEqCa #EAS #EarlyAmericaMisc @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social

📢 Only one more week to get 15% off archive collections from: 📚 @amphilpress.bsky.social 📚 @edinburghup.bsky.social 📚 @ucpress.bsky.social 📚 @uchicagopress.bsky.social 📚 @pennpress.bsky.social 📚 @yalepress.bsky.social Offer ends August 31! marketing.paradigmpublishingservices.com/l/1090872/20...

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

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 #AtlanticWorld #BenFranklinsWorld #Podcasts #History

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

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

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-...

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

The #Summer2025 #EAS issue is now openly accessible on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...#Summer2025#EASmcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social

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#Summer2025#EASmcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

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!

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.” #CaribbeanStudies #DecolonialThought #HaitianStudies #DominicanRepublic

Read our #Summer2025 #EAS journal issue on @projectmuse.bsky.social Link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...#Summer2025#EASmcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social #MCEAS