Penn Press Podcast
1) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 11: David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
David R. Swartz, Asbury University historian and author of Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism, discusses the overlooked history of the America's evangelical progressives in...Show More
2) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 10: Robert Dale Parker, Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor in English and Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois. Parker's collection of poetry, Changing Is Not Vanishing, reinvents t...Show More
3) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 9: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Albert J. Churella, Associate Professor in the Social and International Studies Department at Southern Polytechnic State University and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empir...Show More
Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 9: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
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4) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 8: In the Crossfire
John P. Spencer, Associate Professor of Education at Ursinus College and author of In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform, talks about the work of a leading...Show More
5) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 7: Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
Victoria W. Wolcott, Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and author of Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America, discusses an ...Show More
6) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 6: Unmarriages
Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota, reminds us that traditional marriage was not the only option for couples in medie...Show More
7) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency
Lehigh University political scientist Saladin M. Ambar, author of How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency, discusses the role that governorship played in shaping America's executive branch....Show More
8) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 4: The Satires of Horace
Penn Press's own Sara Davis reads selections from The Satires of Horace, translated by A.M. Juster. In the Satires, the Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), know...Show More
9) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 3: John Cheng, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
Historian John Cheng discusses the early culture of popular science fiction. Cheng's new book, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America, examines the origins of the...Show More
10) Penn Press Podcast Season 4, Episode 2: Shawn Leigh Alexander: An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Shawn Leigh Alexander, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and interim director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, discusses the efforts of T. Thomas Fo...Show More