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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 1d
Evelyn Sterne's article "Immorality and Immortality"?: Salvation and Scandal at Michigan's House of David, from our journal Nova Religio, has been awarded the Outstanding Article Award by the Communal Studies Association! Read it for free via
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 14h
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia offers a current, diverse, encyclopedic view of Philadelphia across its many dimensions. Pre-order yours today! #PhillyIsGreater
Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century - University of Pennsylvania Press
Coming October 21, 2025 from Penn Press, a landmark book project celebrates Philadelphia’s role as the beating heart of the nation’s story, unearthing the hidden histories, points of pride,…
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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 17h
Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 19h
Boston followers: Don't miss author @m-r-glass.bsky.social discussing his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities, tomorrow 10/15 at @bplmaps.bsky.social! Register now to reserve your spot.

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 19h
Boston followers: Don't miss author @m-r-glass.bsky.social discussing his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities, tomorrow 10/15 at @bplmaps.bsky.social! Register now to reserve your spot.

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 2d
Spotted this @pennpress.bsky.social beauty in the wild in Los Angeles. Thank you to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!!!
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Register to join an engaging seminar with renowned legal scholar, behavioural economist & bestselling author, @casssunstein.bsky.social, as he delves into the thought-provoking themes of his latest book IMPERFECT ORACLE
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 1d
Evelyn Sterne's article "Immorality and Immortality"?: Salvation and Scandal at Michigan's House of David, from our journal Nova Religio, has been awarded the Outstanding Article Award by the Communal Studies Association! Read it for free via
@projectmuse.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 4d
If you're attending #UHA2025LA, come visit us in the book exhibit today, Saturday 10/11, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 9 a.m. and 5 a.m. (limit one book per person)!
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 4d
It's time for the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social’s 2025 conference in Los Angeles! Penn Press is all set up in the book exhibit with our latest & greatest urban history titles, so pay us a visit if you're attending, or shop & save via the #UHA2025LA virtual exhibit store: site.pennpress.org/uha-2025/
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 4d
We're all set up at the Pennsylvania Historical Association's 2025 meeting in York, PA! If you're attending, stop by our table in the book exhibit to browse & buy books, or you can head to our virtual exhibit store and save 40% with code PHA25

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 6d
Our American Society for Ethnohistory exhibit is open in the beautiful Coates Chapel. We've got books from University of Arizona Press, @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social , @pennpress.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, @tamupress.bsky.social and more! #ASE2025
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations to @thehistoriann.bsky.social, whose book PIRACY AND THE MAKING OF THE SPANISH PACIFIC WORLD has won the Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book in English on Latin American history, granted by @clahistorians.bsky.social!

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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World – Penn Press
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archiv...
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History: Reviews of New Books @histbooks-reviews.bsky.social · 6d
New Book Review!
Freedom’s Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Moura Mota Isadora,
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Sotelo

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 6d
CRACKED FOUNDATIONS by @m-r-glass.bsky.social (out this week!) examines how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities. Listen to Glass's conversation with Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to learn more! newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d
Just got my copy of this brilliant new book by my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social, an amazing new study of postwar suburbia on Long Island.

Check it out!
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 6d
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 6d
Philly followers: Tomorrow, Thursday October 9, author Katherine J. Parkin will discuss her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, which explores the buying & selling of abortion access between 1962 and 1972, at one of our favorite local bookstores, Head House Books!

Buy your tickets now! bit.ly/48miIvG
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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 7d
And as this interview is conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher you can be sure it will be both interesting and well done.
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 7d
LISTEN: Author Katherine J. Parkin discusses her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, a compelling and revealing look at how the buying and selling of abortion access impacted millions of women between 1962 and 1972, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's podcast!

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 7d
LISTEN: Author Katherine J. Parkin discusses her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, a compelling and revealing look at how the buying and selling of abortion access impacted millions of women between 1962 and 1972, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's podcast!

bit.ly/46EHaai
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 7d
new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: an author's pitch from @pennpress.bsky.social author @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social! carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...
author's pitch: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism during the War on Crime
"...community-based care was a necessary alternative to law enforcement’s coercive attempts to control rape"
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I'm all couped out. @historian-kparkin.bsky.social · 9d
Check out my podcast debut for The Abortion Market, a wonderful conversation with Miranda Melcher at New Books Network.

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The Abortion Market – Penn Press
A revealing investigation into how businesses and businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women between...
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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations to Kristie Flannery (@thehistoriann.bsky.social) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for her book, Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (@pennpress.bsky.social).
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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 8d
Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 8d
"But to truly understand how remote work has evolved ... we need to start by telling a story of profound disruption and eventual reinvention."

Via Knowledge at Wharton, don't miss this excerpt from Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh's IN PRAISE OF THE OFFICE!

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The Limits to Hybrid and Remote Work
Wharton’s Peter Cappelli and co-author Ranya Nehmeh look at the evolution of hybrid work at Silicon Valley companies, particularly Google.
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