University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Religion and Profit
Moravians in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian...
Lenape Country
Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their...
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations, for...
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
Journalist, 1706-1730
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun
Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even...
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the...
Dangerous to Know
Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience...
by Richard R. Beeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory expectations about the political process. Not only was there disagreement over the responsibilities of voters and candidates, confusion extended beyond elections to the relationship...
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2
Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun
Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even...
The Brandywine
An Intimate Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Nestled among picturesque rolling hills, the Brandywine River winds from southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware. The Brandywine: An Intimate Portrait is the first book to trace the rich vein of history in the region, from original European settlement to the Battle of the Brandywine—the largest...
Fries's Rebellion
The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In 1798, the federal government levied its first direct tax on American citizens, one that seemed to favor land speculators over farmers. In eastern Pennsylvania, the tax assessors were largely Quakers and Moravians who had abstained from Revolutionary participation and were recruited by the administration...
In Chocolate We Trust
The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
In Chocolate We Trust takes readers inside modern-day Hershey, Pennsylvania, headquarters of the iconic Hershey brand. A destination for chocolate enthusiasts since the early 1900s, Hershey has transformed from a model industrial town into a multifaceted suburbia powered by philanthropy. At its heart...
I'm the Teacher, You're the Student
A Semester in the University Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course. The unique...
The Camera and the Press
American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype...
The Beguines of Medieval Paris
Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, the beguines, women who wished to devote their lives to Christian ideals without taking formal vows,...