Welcome to our virtual U.S. History exhibit!
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the Organization of American Historians in Washington, DC. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are available in print via print on demand and as e-books! Please browse and follow the links to shop!
- Available in e-book
- Available in print at 40% off. Use coupon code NR18
- New & forthcoming
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to American history studies.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
- Acquisitions Editor Ryan Peterson
Out of concern for the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, and in response to a statewide order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses, PSU Press has suspended warehouse operations until further notice and will not be shipping physical books during this time. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Available as an e-book
Here in This Island We Arrived
Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York
Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Erica Rhodes Hayden
Babel of the Atlantic
Edited by Bethany Wiggin
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Writings by an Early American Polymath
Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert
Study in Black and White
Photography, Race, Humor
Tanya Sheehan
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism
African American Reformers in the Atlantic World
Carole Lynn Stewart
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Owen S. Ireland
Citizens in a Strange Land
A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730–1830
Hermann Wellenreuther
Available in print
Use coupon code NR18 for 40% off!
After Gun Violence
Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock
Craig Rood
The Discourse of Propaganda
Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
John Oddo
Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism
Technological and Rhetorical Paradox
Ian E. J. Hill
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Erik M. Bachman
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
New & Forthcoming books
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy
Machiavelli to Tocqueville
Edited by Steven Frankel, Daniel Doneson, and Martin D. Yaffe
Sewn in Coal Country
An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995
Edited by Robert P. Wolensky
Contraband Guides
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
Paul H. D. Kaplan
Iconoclasm in New York
Revolution to Reenactment
Wendy Bellion
Bells for America
The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington
Diederik Oostdijk
Rufus Porter’s Curious World
Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860
Edited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of American studies, and rhetoric and communication studies. His book series include American Music History Book Series, Humor in America, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, and RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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