Advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, informing the future https://www.pennpress.org/https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvsw2255e32sOur 2026 Back to School Sale ends Tuesday! Browse our collection of paperbacks available for 50% off and use code PENNSCHOOL26 to save! https://www.pennpress.org/back-to-school-sale/18 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsw2255e32shttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvsvzlyp3d27Our 2026 Back to School Sale ends Tuesday! Browse our collection of paperbacks available for 50% off and use code PENNSCHOOL26 to save! https://www.pennpress.org/back-to-school-sale/18 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsvzlyp3d27https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvqajqlybb2yJoin us in thanking our peer reviewers and celebrating #PeerReviewWeek! On our blog, our book and journal editors reflect on how peer review is the lifeblood of scholarly publishing https://bit.ly/4j20eFU17 Sep 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqajqlybb2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvniam6egt2tHappy #PeerReviewWeek! Let's celebrate the valuable work of peer review, an often unrecognized task that ensures that the work we publish is accurate, reliable, and merits becoming part of the durable scholarly record. Thank you, peer reviewers!16 Sep 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvniam6egt2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvlf6rrnzj2dICYMI: Join us in celebrating #PeerReviewWeek and check out our blog to learn how peer review "ensures that scholarly rigor is maintained, and that arguments are strengthened and refined so that new work meets the highest standards possible"! https://bit.ly/4j20eFU15 Sep 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlf6rrnzj2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvj6wzjgqe2tIt's #PeerReviewWeek! To learn more about the importance of peer review to Penn Press and to the entire world of scholarly publishing, head to our blog! https://bit.ly/4j20eFU14 Sep 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj6wzjgqe2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvisycojxy24As we celebrate #PeerReviewWeek, we want to take a moment to thank the peer reviewers who make our publications possible. Ensuring that our books and journals maintain high standards of scholarship, peer reviewers are essential to the production of new academic works. We couldn't do it without them!14 Sep 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvisycojxy24https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvgdoyqrf222Our Back to School Sale features more than 250 paperbacks, from popular course titles to new releases, available for 50% off—including 25+ new titles not included in last year's sale! Browse the collection and use code PENNSCHOOL26 to save until 9/22. https://www.pennpress.org/back-to-school-sale/ 13 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgdoyqrf222https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mvb7kxzo3n24BOUNDARIES OF BELONGING shows "how fluid identities and communities could be in this period and how rights to personhood, property, and profit could fluctuate based on numerous factors." Learn more (including how you can save 75% on this book!) in Tracy Kellmer's new blog post https://bit.ly/4AdB39K11 Sep 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvb7kxzo3n24https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mv6s33nbyq2yAuthor Fuad Musallam recently joined AnthroPod, the podcast of the @culanth.bsky.social, to explore how disappointment functions in today's world as well as to discuss his book A BREAK IN THE FUTURE. Listen now! https://bit.ly/4r2GNia10 Sep 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6s33nbyq2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mv4kbemntn2tZachary M. Bennett's "slim, engaging book" CONTESTED CURRENTS "effectively argues that New England’s waterways dictated its development—and in doing so, shaped American history." And it's one of the best nonfiction books of this fall, according to Bloomberg! https://bloom.bg/4A3EGip09 Sep 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4kbemntn2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mv4a23gedv26Don't forget to check out our Back to School Sale, which offers 50% off over 250 paperbacks, featuring longtime course favorites alongside recent highlights (including 25+ new editions added since last year's sale)! Browse the collection and use code PENNSCHOOL26 to save https://bit.ly/4zMN4Tb09 Sep 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4a23gedv26https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mv27vddb6b2sCongratulations to our Penn Press finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, Frederick Douglass Portrait and Abolition: Kim F. Hall's THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE and Casey Schmitt's THE PREDATORY SEA! https://bit.ly/46idC1c08 Sep 2026 23:55 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv27vddb6b2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3muzwbqg4c727"Environmentalists, designers, architects and historians offer their thoughts on the University of Pennsylvania campus and its famous buildings" in PENN'S SYLVANIA, out now from Penn Press. Read more in @phillyvoice.com's rundown of 8 great fall books from Philly authors! https://bit.ly/4dqdTD0 https://www.phillyvoice.com/fall-reading-guide-philadelphia-authors-2026/08 Sep 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzwbqg4c727https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3muxkdn4ngf24Happy Labor Day! WORK, CAPITALISM, AND DEMOCRACY, edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, explores the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today—one of many great Penn Press titles grappling with the history of labor in America https://bit.ly/4r4YTjW07 Sep 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxkdn4ngf24https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mumy52do572d"As detailed in Penn’s Sylvania, the path to the present idyll was long and frequently unshaded." Learn more about Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa's new history of Penn's beloved campus landscape (out this week!) in this review from the Pennsylvania Gazette https://bit.ly/4gEoScQ03 Sep 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumy52do572dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mukk3gvq2l2lOur 2026 Back to School Sale is here! Through Sept. 22, save 50% on our collection of over 250 paperbacks, featuring longtime course favorites alongside recent highlights (including 25+ new editions added since last year's sale)! Use code PENNSCHOOL26 to receive your discount https://bit.ly/4zMN4Tb https://www.pennpress.org/back-to-school-sale/02 Sep 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukk3gvq2l2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3muihwncbmh27Congratulations to author Alec Zuercher Reichardt, whose book ROADS TO POWER, ROADS TO CRISIS has won the Professional Prize for Scholarship in Postal History from the Smithsonian National Postal Museum! https://bit.ly/4xAGcHa01 Sep 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muihwncbmh27https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3muibksi5eb2yICYMI: Penn Today recently spotlighted PENN'S SYLVANIA, a new book that "blends history, design, and environmental insight, inviting readers to see Penn’s campus—and campuses everywhere—in a new light." https://bit.ly/4xXzwCE01 Sep 2026 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muibksi5eb2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mtwocdxktw26Don't miss the book launch event for PENN'S SYLVANIA, edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, which tells the story of Penn's landscape through the designers and historians charged with its care. Join us on Thurs 9/10 at 6:30 p.m. ET for a discussion & reception https://bit.ly/45VXvGB25 Aug 2026 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwocdxktw26https://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3mttoqqhnbp2hDo you want to receive new book announcements, get subscriber discounts, and be the first to learn about special sales on our website? 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Bunster-Ossa. https://bit.ly/3SzU8Sr https://www.design.upenn.edu/post/my-top-five-fritz-steiner14 Aug 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2vjz5wmh2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3msyr5cw4o42q"My book explores Rome's 'meat moment' and, after establishing numbers, turns to explain why and how so much meat was brought to Rome." Don't miss Bradford A. Bouley discussing his new book THE BARBERINI BUTCHERS in a new piece for ROROTOKO! https://bit.ly/4gfOLQ9 13 Aug 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:myisjx2ko2wpwlyxd3lvlkd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyr5cw4o42qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pennpress.bsky.social/post/3msvvdhhoro2cThe new issue of the @jds-disasters.bsky.social is here! 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