Complete Catalog: Books of Regional Interest
Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.
Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 200 Years of Excellence (hc 2005, pb 2005)
Block/Rhoads, Aquatic Plants of Pennsylvania: A Complete Reference Guide (hc 2011, eb 2011)
Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (hc 2001, pb 2001, eb 2011)
Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (hc 2002, eb 2011)
Burt, The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy (pb 1999)
Churella, The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 (hc 2012, eb 2012)
Cnaan, The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America (hc 2006, eb 2011)
Cnaan/Dichter, A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn (hc 2008)
Conn, Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past (pb 2006, eb 2011)
Contosta, A Philadelphia Family: The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill (hc 1988, pb 1992)
Cotter/Roberts, The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia (hc 1992)
Coyle, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered (pb 2011)
Davis/Haller, The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (pb 1998)
Dorst, The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma (hc 1989, pb 1989, eb 2012)
Dorwart, Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia: An Illustrated History (hc 1998, pb 1998)
Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (pb 1995, eb 2011)
Eckhardt, So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego (hc 2011)
Fahlman, Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster (pb 2007)
Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (hc 1996, pb 1996)
Foster, Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (hc 1997)
Gale, Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham (hc 2006, pb 2006)
Gallman, Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (pb 2000)
Gillette, Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (hc 2005, pb 2006, eb 2011)
Goodman, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin (hc 1956, pb 1974, eb 2011)
Hall, Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case (The Benjamin Franklin Mysteries) (pb 2001)
Hall, Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder (The Benjamin Franklin Mysteries) (pb 2001)
Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia (hc 2013, eb 2013)
Hepp, IV, The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 (hc 2003)
Higgins/Cardillo, Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden (hc 2011, eb 2012)
Hoffman, Brotherly Love (pb 2000)
Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (hc 2003)
Jaeger-Smith, Poetry in Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross (pb 2006)
Kashatus, Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies (hc 2008, pb 2013)
Katz/Sugrue, W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy (hc 1998, pb 1998)
Kimmerle, Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing (pb 2004)
Kimmerle, Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical (hc 2008)
Lapsansky/Verplanck, Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920 (hc 2002)
Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (pb 2000)
Luce/Summers, Local Fiscal Issues in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area (pb 1987)
Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia (hc 2003)
Mallon/Sama, Franklin's Daughters: Profiles of Penn Women (pb 2002)
McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (pb 2003)
McMurry/Van Dolsen, Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920 (hc 2011, eb 2011)
Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory (hc 2002, pb Nov 2013, eb 2011)
Montgomery, Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club (hc 2005)
Moss/Crane, Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia (hc 2004)
Moss/Crane, Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes (hc 1998)
Moss/Crane, Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia (hc 2008)
Murtagh, Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements (pb 1997)
Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (hc 2001, pb 2006, eb 2011)
Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (hc 2003, pb 2003, eb 2011)
Peterson, The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer (hc 2004)
Peterson, Pennsylvania Impressionism (hc 2002)
Peterson, Form Radiating Life: The Paintings of Charles Rosen (hc 2006)
Powell, Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (hc 1949, pb 1993)
Rappole, Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic: A Complete Reference Manual (hc 2007, pb 2012)
Regis, Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History (pb 1999)
Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (hc 1996, pb 2000)
Rhoads/Block, Trees of Pennsylvania: A Complete Reference Guide (hc 2004)
Rhoads/Block, The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual, 2/e (hc 2007)
Richter, The Free Man (pb 1998)
Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (hc 2000)
Rodin, The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets (hc 2007)
Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (hc 2001, pb 2006)
Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (hc 2010, pb 2012, eb 2011)
Soderlund, William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History (hc 1983, pb 1983)
Stevick, Imagining Philadelphia: Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present (hc 1996)
Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph (hc 2005)
Stutz, Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River (pb 1998)
Thomas/Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (hc 2000)
Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (hc 1998, pb 1998, eb 2011)
Van Horne, Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: Photographs of William H. Rau (hc 2002)
Vance, Intimate Bicycle Tours of Philadelphia: Ten Excursions to the City's Art, Parks, and Neighborhoods (pb 2004)
Vitiello, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made (hc 2010)
Warner, The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, 2/e (hc 1987, pb 1987)
Weaver, As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine (hc 2013)
Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes (hc 1943, pb 2006, eb 2012)
Winegrad, Through Time, Across Continents: A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum (hc 1993)