pennsylvania press parent company university of pennsylvania status active founded march 26 1890 country of origin united states headquarters location philadelphia pennsylvania distribution worldwide publication types books magazine journals official website official website the university of pennsylvania press or penn press is a university press affiliated with the university of pennsylvania located in philadelphia pennsylvania . the press was originally incorporated with the commonwealth of pennsylvania on 26 march 1890 and the imprint of the university of pennsylvania press first appeared on publications in the closing decade of the nineteenth century among the earliest such imprints in america . one of the press s first book publications in 1899 was a landmark the philadelphia negro a social study by renowned black reformer scholar and social critic w.e.b. du bois a book that still remains in print on the press s lists . today the press has an active backlist of roughly 2 000 titles and an annual output of upward of 120 new books in a focused editorial program . areas of special interest include american history and culture ; ancient medieval and renaissance studies ; anthropology ; landscape architecture ; studio arts ; human rights ; jewish studies ; and political science . the press also publishes 16 peer reviewed academic journals mostly in the humanities and the magazine dissent . the university of pennsylvania press inc. is a nonprofit pennsylvania corporation wholly owned by the university of pennsylvania maintaining its own nonprofit tax status under section 501 c 3 of the united states internal revenue code . the press currently resides at 3905 spruce street in philadelphia pennsylvania . the building housing the press is the former potts house built by the wilson brothers & company architecture firm in 1876 . 1 the house previously served as both the headquarters of international house philadelphia and wxpn . see also edit university of pennsylvania press academic journals references edit 3905 spruce street . university of pennsylvania archives and records center . external links edit university of pennsylvania press penn press log v t e university of pennsylvania schools annenberg school for communication annenberg public policy center center for global communication studies school of arts and sciences school of dental medicine school of design graduate school of education school of engineering and applied science school of law perelman school of medicine school of nursing school of social policy and practice school of veterinary medicine wharton school programs center for advanced judaic studies fels institute of government graduate group in the art and archaeology of the mediterranean world huntsman program in international studies and business jerome fisher program in management and technology lauder institute leonard davis institute of health economics singh program in networked & social systems engineering nets vagelos program in life sciences and management vagelos scholars program in molecular life sciences places university city annenberg center for the performing arts college hall college houses david rittenhouse laboratory fisher fine arts library historic district houston hall institute of contemporary art irvine auditorium kelly writers house meyerson hall moore school of electrical engineering morris arboretum museum of archaeology and anthropology new bolton center penn park perelman quadrangle richards medical research laboratories van pelt library athletics penn quakers band fight on pennsylvania basketball men s women s college boat club lacrosse penn relays soccer men s women s class of 1923 arena franklin field meiklejohn stadium palestra media the daily pennsylvanian pennsylvania punch bowl university of pennsylvania press wharton school publishing wqhs radio wxpn life student life notable alumni and faculty wharton school alumni mask and wig penn glee club penn masala penn mert pennapps philomathean society hail pennsylvania the red and the blue this article about a university or college in pennsylvania is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title university of pennsylvania press & oldid 726967474 categories university of pennsylvania presspublishing companies established in 1890book publishing companies based in pennsylvaniauniversity presses of the united statesnortheastern united states university stubspennsylvania school stubsunited states publishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aissrpskohrvatski edit links this page was last modified on 25 june 2016 at 17 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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