The War Against Tuberculosis

Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania

James E. Higgins

“James E. Higgins rightfully brings to the fore the life and career of Samuel G. Dixon, someone largely known as a member of the tuberculosis sanitarium movement. As Higgins demonstrates, Dixon was so much more, from his exemplary and important research agenda to his most important role as founder and leader of a powerful state health department. No hagiography, Higgins’s deeply researched and lively book introduces a prominent figure to the public health history canon.”—George Dehner, author of Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza

The Battles of Texas

Adjuncts, Composition, and Culture Wars at UT Austin

Nate Kreuter and Mark Garrett Longaker

“The Battles of Texas offers a compelling, incisive, and well-written historical account of debates about the place of writing instruction in the University of Texas at Austin curriculum. Kreuter and Longaker’s detailed analysis of events that shaped a nationally prominent writing program offers a unique perspective on the history of writing studies and thoughtful insights about history’s ongoing presence in contemporary developments in the field.”—Lois P. Agnew, coeditor of After Plato: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Lies of the Land

Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Camille Serchuk

Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking.

Ribera’s Repetitions

Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples

Todd P. Olson

“Todd Olson carefully considers the diverse contexts for Ribera’s artistic practice, such as empire-building, materiality, and myth, and thus assesses the complexity of Ribera’s creativity through the lenses of repetition, rotation, and experimentation. This novel, interdisciplinary study reexamines the originality of Ribera’s praxis as engaged in a visual culture shaped by science, history, and belief in early modern Naples.”—Lisandra Estevez, editor of Collecting Early Modern Art (1400–1800) in the U.S. South

Congratulations to Alessandra Russo, whose book A New Antiquity is the winner of the 2025 Eleanor Tufts Award!

Congratulations to Kristopher W. Kersey, whose book Facing Images is the winner of the 2025 Monica Green Prize!

Congratulations to Jennifer Borland, whose book Visualizing Household Health is the winner of the 2025 Karen Gould Book Prize in Art History!

21 called Michael J. Hatch’s Networks of Touch “lucidly written and ambitiously conceived.”

Effective with volume 16, issue 1, 2025 Bustan has transitioned to an open access journal! Bustan is a journal dedicated to review of new literature.

Nineteenth Century Studies has been accepted into the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) for indexing. The journal publishes studies of interest to scholars across the humanities.

Volume 33 of our newest title, Nursing History Review, is now available online! Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing History

Penn State University Press Journals welcomes Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide to our publishing portfolio. Volume 46 will be publishing later this year.

Boschwitz on Wellhausen

The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany

Paul Michael Kurtz and Friedemann Boschwitz

“Boschwitz on Wellhausen makes a major contribution to intellectual history for the fields of biblical studies, history of religions, and German Jewish studies. Paul Michael Kurtz brings a fascinating wealth of archival material together that sheds light on a crucial period of modern German research. This volume helps break Julius Wellhausen out of the boxes that he has generally been placed in and provides a much more integrated reading of his work and thought.”—Bernard M. Levinson, coeditor of Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich

Megiddo VII

The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and Its Environs

Edited by Matthew J. Adams, Melissa S. Cradic, and Israel Finkelstein

Megiddo VII reports in meticulous detail the archaeological findings from two elite, interrelated tombs from the Late Bronze I period, both exceptionally preserved and richly furnished: Tomb 16/H/50, a monumental masonry-constructed chamber tomb from the Middle Bronze III, and Burial 16/H/45, a simpler pit within the former’s mausoleum.

Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches

Yazan Al-Saadi

“An exciting, informative collection of graphic journalism.”—Foreword Reviews

Shrink

Story of a Fat Girl

Rachel M. Thomas

“Nuanced and vulnerable, this succeeds as both a body-politics primer and a personal story of the rocky path to self-acceptance.”—Publishers Weekly