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The Folly of Revolution (2024)
- Cayley, David
Ivan Illich (2024)
- Larson, Sharon
Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère (2024)
- Nash, Gary B. and Emily M. Teipe
Our Beloved Friend (2024)
- Wallach, Kerry
Traces of a Jewish Artist (2024)
- Flack, Audrey
With Darkness Came Stars (2024)
- Smith, Thomas G.
A Conservative Environmentalist (2024)
- Frost, J. William
William Penn (2024)
- Simmons, William J.
Love and Degradation (2024)
- West III, James L. W.
Business Is Good (2023)
- Kitts, Thomas M.
Keep on Believin’ (2023)
- Kelley, Mark
An Uncommon Woman (2023)
- Donaldson, Scott
Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes (2022)
- Williams, Roger L.
Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State (2021)
- Mitchell, Silvia Z.
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman (2020)
- VanDiver, Rebecca
Designing a New Tradition (2020)
- Browne, Stephen Howard
The First Inauguration (2020)
- Delacroix, Eugène, translated by Michèle Hannoosh
Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832 (2019)
- Ephameron, translated by Michele Hutchison
Us Two Together (2019)
- Lightman, Sarah
The Book of Sarah (2019)
- Fessenden, Tracy
Religion Around Billie Holiday (2018)
- Ireland, Owen S.
Sentiments of a British-American Woman (2018)
- Williams, Roger L.
Evan Pugh’s Penn State (2018)
- Reid, Martine, translated with a foreword by Gretchen van Slyke
George Sand (2018)
- Frank, Russell
Among the Woo People (2017)
- Tóibín, Colm, Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely
Henry James and American Painting (2017)
- Lockman, Brian and Francine Schertzer, eds., with introductions by G. Terry Madonna and Shanin Specter
Arlen Specter (2017)
- Keeley, Robert V., with a Prologue by John O. Iatrides
The Colonels’ Coup and the American Embassy (2016)
- Parks, A. Franklin
William Parks (2016)
- Hutchisson, James M.
Ernest Hemingway (2016)
- Walrath, Dana
Aliceheimer’s (2016)
- Morrison, Ernest
J. Horace McFarland (2016)
- Beaumont, Henny
Hole in the Heart (2016)
- Kashatus, William C.
Dapper Dan Flood (2015)
- Dunlap-Shohl, Peter
My Degeneration (2015)
- Rohrer, S. Scott
Jacob Green’s Revolution (2015)
- Donaldson, Scott
The Impossible Craft (2015)
- Brown, George W.
Old Times in Oildom (2015)
- Bidwell, John
Graphic Passion (2015)
- Saylor, Richard C.
Soldiers to Governors (2015)
- Hacker, Paul
Slovakia on the Road to Independence (2014)
- Stern, Mark Abbott
David Franks (2014)
- Miller, Kenneth E.
From Progressive to New Dealer (2014)
- Walden, Daniel, ed.
Chaim Potok (2014)
- Tong Qiang, Li Xiyan. Translated by Zhengwen Wang
Emperor Qin Shihuang (2014)
- Miao Huaiming. Translated by Guosheng Yang Chen, Trevor Hay, and Bo Ai
Cao Xueqin (2014)
- Gao Huaping. Translated by Wang Rongpei, Cao Ying, and Wang Shanjiang
Laozi (2014)
- Zhou Qun. Translated by David B. Honey
Confucius (2014)
- Stainton, Leslie
Staging Ground (2014)
- Giesberg, Judith, ed. and transcribed and annotated by The Memorable Days Project
Emilie Davis’s Civil War (2014)
- Sciabarra, Chris Matthew
Ayn Rand: Second Edition (2013)
- Conlogue, Bill
Here and There (2013)
- Kuntz, Marion Leathers
The Anointment of Dionisio (2012)
- Ousterhout, Anne M.
The Most Learned Woman in America (2012)
- Khrushchev, Sergei, ed.
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (2012)
- Khrushchev, Sergei, ed.
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (2012)
- Khrushchev, Sergei, ed.
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (2012)
- Wenger, Diane
A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania (2012)
- Noble, Thomas F. X., trans., intro., annot.
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious (2012)
- McCarthy, Laurette E.
Walter Pach (1883–1958) (2012)
- Bernini, Domenico (Franco Mormando trans.)
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (2012)
- Grayson, George W.
Mexican Messiah (2011)
- Weaver, Kathleen
Peruvian Rebel (2011)
- Mahlendorf, Ursula
The Shame of Survival (2010)
- Palazchenko, Pavel
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze (2009)
- Schofield, Robert E.
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley (2009)
- Kasdorf, Julia Spicher
The Body and the Book (2009)
- Delbeke, Maarten, Evonne Levy, Steven F. Ostrow, eds.
Bernini's Biographies (2008)
- Smith, Paul, ed., Marius Roux , author
The Substance and the Shadow (2007)
- Miller, James E., Jr.
T. S. Eliot (2007)
- Francis, J. Michael
Invading Colombia (2007)
- Delbeke, Maarten, Steven Ostrow, and Evonne Levy. Au. Baldinucci, Trans. Catherine Enggass
The Life of Bernini: New Edition (2007)
- Graydon, Alexander
Memoirs of a Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania Within the Last Sixty Years (2007)
- Lippard, George
Washington and His Generals, “1776” (2007)
- Stone, Alexis
The Tale of a Plain Man (2007)
- Klepp, Susan E., Farley Grubb, and Anne Pfaelzer de Ortiz, eds.
Souls for Sale (2006)
- Brotherhead, William
Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia (2006)
- Penn, William
Journal of William Penn (2006)
- McGuire, Brian Patrick
Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation (2005)
- Klepp, Susan E., and Billy G. Smith, eds.
The Infortunate: Second Edition (2005)
- Cawley, Martinus, O.C.S.O., Translated, and with an introduction by, Martinus Cawley, O.C.S.O. and with a preface by Barbara Newman
Send Me God (2005)
- Orr, John W.
Set Up Running (2005)
- Weaver-Zercher, David L., ed.
Writing the Amish (2005)
- Dosal, Paul J.
Comandante Che (2004)
- Schofield, Robert E.
The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley (2004)
- Fox, Francis S.
Sweet Land of Liberty (2003)
- Schmidt, Claudia M.
David Hume (2003)
- Read, Richard
Art and Its Discontents (2003)
- Johnson, David R.
Conrad Richter (2002)
- Althoff, Gerd
Otto III (2002)
- Richter, Conrad
The Waters of Kronos (2002)
- Robinson, Joyce Henri, and Derrick R. Cartwright
An Interlude in Giverny (2001)
- Robinson, Joyce Henri
An Artistic Friendship (2001)
- Knapp, Ethan
The Bureaucratic Muse (2001)
- Scrivener, Michael
Seditious Allegories (2001)
- Jacks, Philip and William Caferro
The Spinelli of Florence (2001)
- Young, Philip
Ernest Hemingway : Second Edition (2000)
- Leab, Daniel J.
“I Was a Communist for the FBI” (2000)
- Wilson, Renate
Pious Traders in Medicine (2000)
- Tise, Larry E., ed.
Benjamin Franklin and Women (2000)
- Selwyn, Pamela E.
Everyday Life in the German Book Trade (2000)
- Greenspan, Ezra
George Palmer Putnam (2000)
- Kizenko, Nadieszda
A Prodigal Saint (2000)
- Nelson, James G.
Publisher to the Decadents (2000)
- McWilliam, Neil
Monumental Intolerance (2000)
- Silvas, Anna
Jutta and Hildegard (1999)
- Hellmut Wohl, ed.
The Life of Michelangelo (1999)
- Balestracci, Duccio
The Renaissance in the Fields (1999)
- James, Sydney V. Edited by Theodore Dwight Bozeman
John Clarke and His Legacies (1999)
- Holli, Melvin G.
The American Mayor (1999)
- Bussel, Robert
From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor (1999)
- White, Morton
A Philosopher’s Story (1999)
- Crites, Stephen
Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking (1998)
- Ruby, Jay
The World of Francis Cooper (1998)
- Schulz, Anne Markham
Giammaria Mosca called Padovano (1998)
- Barolsky, Paul
Michelangelo's Nose (1997)
- Bronner, Stephen Eric
Rosa Luxemburg (1997)
- Ekedahl, Carolyn, and Melvin A. Goodman
The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze (1997)
- Long, Burke O.
Planting and Reaping Albright (1997)
- Phillips, Elizabeth
Emily Dickinson (1997)
- Weintraub, Stanley
Shaw's People (1996)
- Ridolfi, Carlo, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, Bruce Cole, and Jody Shiffman, eds.
The Life of Titian (1996)
- Bronner, Simon J.
Popularizing Pennsylvania (1996)
- Bagby, Lewis
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism (1995)
- Archambault, Paul J., ed./trans.
A Monk's Confession (1995)
- Rojas, Carlos
Salvador Dalí, or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother's Portrait (1993)
- Seigel, Jerrold
Marx's Fate (1993)
- Dorsey, Peter
Sacred Estrangement (1993)
- Gates, Norman T., ed.
Richard Aldington (1992)
- Williams, Roger L.
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education (1991)
- Pfaff, Daniel W.
Joseph Pulitzer II and the “Post-Dispatch” (1991)
- Wilhelm, J. J.
Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908–1925 (1990)
- Callahan, North
Carl Sandburg (1987)
- Duiker, William J.
Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei (1978)
- Rosenberg, Bruce A.
Custer and the Epic of Defeat (1974)
- Schubert, Mary Hurst, translated and annotated with a Critical Introduction by
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder’s Confessions and Fantasies (1970)
- Gottlieb, Michah and Charles H. Manekin
Moses Mendelssohn (2015)
- Stout, Lee
A Matter of Simple Justice: Updated edition (2020)
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