Events


Attend the virtual book launch for The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 19th at 4:30 p.m.  The free Zoom event is hosted by the Horner Memorial Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  Advance registration is required by emailing gsplibrarian@gmail.com.  Download the e-invitation here for more details.   

A recording of the book launch event will be posted on this website after the live event is concluded. 



Image: Matthew Carey, map of Pennsylvania, published in Philadelphia, 1813.  Courtesy, The Rosenbach, Philadelphia. 
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Johannes Bard, penmanship sample, "Alphabet Romain," Adams County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1819-1821. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.


​Pennsylvania State University Press Virtual Author Panel


​Join PSU Press and the authors and volume editors of four recent books in Early American Studies for a virtual panel on Friday, June 19th at 1pm EST! Panelists will discuss their new books and answer your questions.
 
Our guests are:
Alexander Ames, author of The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Wendy Bellion, author of Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
Cecile Fromont, editor of Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Bethany Wiggin, editor of Babel of the Atlantic
 
Moderated by Kathryn Yahner, PSU Press Acquisitions Editor
 
A recording of the panel is available on PSU Press's Facebook page: ​https://www.facebook.com/PennStateUniversityPress/videos/612536482725084