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Our Fall/Winter 2026 catalog is here! Browse the catalog and see what we're publishing next season: https://www.psupress.org/catalogs/PDFs/FW2026.pdf
Friday! Join John F. López, author of THE AQUATIC METROPOLIS, for a book launch with the Association for Latin American Art! The event starts at 12pm EDT. https://utampa.zoom.us/j/99754469653?pwd=mrZzxJaeJalUAMPttz2TLiAfLo4WvZ.1#success
Now published! W. George Lovell reconstructs both the trajectory of Pedro de Alvarado’s campaigns and the mind of a conquistador driven by greed and glory. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/6M7k50YZ5ne
New in paperback! Take 30% off MEMORIALIZING THE UNSUNG with promo code NR26. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09698-8.html
New Q&A: ECUMENICA Editor Hank Willenbrink speaks to Rebecca Jackson about her essay, "White Power Brokers: Confederate Feminism, Tradwives, and Aspirational White Womanhood." Check out the interview, and read the journal article for free through 7/15. https://ow.ly/YvnF50Zei42
New in paperback! Take 30% off CHRISTIANS AT HOME with promo code NR26. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09738-1.html
Now published! THE EPIC OF FLORIDA brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. These works capture how early modern writers transformed violent and uncertain events into epic verse. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/82gn50YZ57p
The summer issue of our newsletter is here! Read on for reviews, upcoming events, journals news, and more. https://www.psupress.org/emailassets/psupressnews-summer_2026.html
Now published! Focusing on Europe from ca. 700 to ca. 1200, Heidi C. Gearhart uncovers a surprising abundance of names, stories, and images of artists and examines how they functioned within their cultural and material contexts. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/HQqj50YZ4Fm
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Now published! Blending art history with the histories of cartography, science, technology, and the environment, this book offers a nuanced account of Mexico City’s urban development. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-10041-8.html
Now published! PURITY CULTURE, BODIES, AND BELIEFS confronts the enduring effects of religious trauma by centering the body as both a site of harm and a source of healing. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/SBLI50YZ4mW
Now published! An original and pioneering work, AZRAEL contributes new insights into how Muslims have imagined angels, death, and immortality. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-10148-4.html
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Now published! QUAKER, WHALER, TRAITOR, SPY! uses the comic form to tell the remarkable story of William Rotch. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-10151-4.html
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Dr. Ian Williams, author of and contributor to several of our books, participated in Hay Festival last week!
Now published! In MORE THAN TONGUES CAN TELL, Eric Lewis Williams dismantles prevailing notions of Pentecostalism’s anti-intellectualism and explores how social contexts shape theologies produced by marginalized groups in America. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/7hTL50YWFvN
Now published! HIGHLAND CHRISTIANITY brings together indigenous, in-group scholars and external researchers to examine Christianity’s complex entanglement with ethnicity and modernity across eastern Zomia. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/mar550YWFrr
Now published! BLACK & GOLD reconsiders the material and symbolic life of gold and the Black labor that has always sustained it. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/4aox50YWFmy
Now published! With inspiration from new materialist theory, Zorach investigates how ideas about nature’s generative power unsettled conventional definitions of image, artifact, and artistic intention. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/OJqu50YWFiI
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Now published! PORTRAITS OF EMPIRICISM reveals how pictures can expose paradoxes at the heart of empiricist philosophy. Treating images not as ancillary illustrations but as central evidence in the history of ideas, this book reframes empiricism’s intellectual legacy. https://ow.ly/LG9g50YWFe1
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Now published! Coined by the editors to reflect the unique combination of words and images in comics, "keywords/keyimages" offers a fresh way to understand how graphic narratives communicate experiences of health and illness. Take 30% off with promo code NR26. https://ow.ly/Lghp50YWF34