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A Concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from backcountry settlement to one of America's best small cities

Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly inc…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579120/The-Mobile-River-updated-edition
Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association

In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579119/Shall-We-Play-That-One-Together-updated-edition
The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography

From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579118/Dearest-Mama
A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war

William S. Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had bee…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579117/The-End-of-Tennessee
A haunting memoir of childhood trauma, building a life, and living with wounds that never heal

"Not a year before I ran away from home at seventeen, I stepped out of the house at dusk…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579116/Securing-the-Prize
How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf

From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579113/South-of-My-Dreams
Woman plans, God laughs . . . Woman persists.

Introducing a new voice from the South that tells us with humor, panache, and raw frankness her irresistible story of what it means to bec…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579111/Peace-by-Peace
Eight stories about extraordinary action carried out by ordinary people

When you want to effect positive change against structural and systemic problems, where do you begin? In Peace b…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579107/Exporting-Reconstruction
How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals

Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both fore…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1579104/Built-by-the-People-Themselves
The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington

Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just op…]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:51 -0700