A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual,

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious tolerati

"It may surprise many that William Penn, who founded one of the thirteen original American colonies, spent just four years on American soil. Even more surprisin

The son of a wealthy, repected admiral, William Penn did what was forbidden in seventeenth-century England--he openly practiced the Quaker religion. Penn dreame

Outlines world civilization during the lifetime of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania.