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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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534922/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534921/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534920/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534919/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534918/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534915/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534913/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534909/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534907/Liberty-Street
Purchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish family

As Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a grand townhouse in his hometown of Savannah, Geor…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700