November 18, 2022
Lehigh University Press Announces Three New Board Members
Lehigh University Press is proud to welcome three new board members to its family: Jessecae Marsh, Paul Brockman, and George DuPaul. An associate professor of psychology, Dr. Marsh serves as the Director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program. She is a trained cognitive psychology, with interests in health reasoning and decision making and higher order cognition. Her research investigates how people’s beliefs about causal relationships influence their thinking, especially in regard to how they...
November 18, 2022
Review of Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the "Rush v. Cobbett" Trial, 1799
Marcia D. Nichols of the University of Minnesota Rochester has written a fantastic review of Linda Myrsiades' book Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America. This review was published in vol. 139, no. 2 of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and can also be found below: In 1797, Benjamin Rush sued William Cobbett for libel. Rush’s decision to address in the courtroom the biting criticism “Porcupine” had leveled at “Sangrado” during the 1797 yellow...
November 18, 2022
May 2015 Issue of Choice
We are happy to announce that John Craig's book, The Ku Klux Klan in western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928, has a recieved a great review in the latest issue if Choice. You can read it below: Craig (Slippery Rock Univ.) provides an in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in western Pennsylvania. Supported by an exhaustive list of sources, the author persuasively shows that the Klan was extremely active in the...
November 18, 2022
Lehigh University Press Announces New Director, Kate Crassons
We are proud to welcome Kate Crassons aboard as the new Press director. A member of Lehigh University’s English faculty, her research focuses on late medieval English literature and culture with a particular interest in religion. Her book, The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2010. She is currently working on a new book project concerning faith, epistemology, and miracles...
November 18, 2022
Lehigh University Press Announces New Series Editor
We are pleased to announce that Xi Lian, Professor of History at Duke Divinity School, will be the new series editor for our recently renamed series, "Studies of Christianity in China." A specialist in religious and intellectual encounters between China and the West, Professor Lian is the author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity...
November 18, 2022
Lehigh University Press Publication Featured on PCN's "Pennsylvania Books"
Franklin L. Kury appears on the Pennsylvania Cable Network's program "PA Books" (premiering January 29, 2012). Kury's book, "Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections" was published by the Lehigh University Press in 2011 and recounts his efforts to enact an environmental amendment to the Pennsylvania state constitution, a comprehensive clean streams law, the gubernatorial disability law, and other significant pieces of legislation. For more information about this appearance, please visit www.pcntv.com.
November 18, 2022
Lehigh University Press joins Rowman & Littlefield Publishing
Lehigh University Press was delighted to join the academic consortium at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Rowman & Littlefield is one of the largest independent publishers and distributors in North America. With its commitment to encouraging superior scholarship and its very high design standards, we look forward to continuing to publishing excellent scholarship while reaching more markets. RLPG is also at the forefront of electronic publishing, and our books will be simultaneously available through 48...
November 18, 2022
Award-Winning Publication
The Lehigh University Press is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Fatherly's Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Lehigh University Press, 2008), is the winner of the 2010 Philip S. Klein Book Prize for the best book on Pennsylvania history. This prestigious award is given every two years by the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
