uscpress.com - Books https://uscpress.com/ Without a Witness https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060708/Without-a-Witness
Stella Johnston's poems in Without a Witness invite the reader into widely different places, from the nightmarish landscape of a morphine hallucination, to the last few moments of a Gary Coope…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Understanding Jill McCorkle https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060700/Understanding-Jill-McCorkle
Evaluates McCorkle's work and her impact on readers as well as other writers

Understanding Jill McCorkle introduces readers to the novels and short story collections of Jill McCorkle's…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060732/The-Impact-of-the-Haitian-Revolution-in-the-Atlantic-World
The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic world

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion o…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 From the Bones Out https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060692/From-the-Bones-Out
Marisa de los Santos often situates her poems in the rich, vividly evoked landscapes of Virginia and Texas as well as her father's homeland, the Philippines, but their true territory is the bo…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 The Great Cooper River Bridge https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060756/The-Great-Cooper-River-Bridge
A comprehensive history of one of Charleston's most significant landmarks

On a hot summer day in 1929, the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, participated in one of the largest cel…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061677/Heaven-Is-a-Beautiful-Place-second-edition
Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 The Invasion of Japan https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060684/The-Invasion-of-Japan
Examines the U.S. plan to end the Second World War by invading Japan

For more than a half century scholars and nonscholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Between North and South https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060724/Between-North-and-South
Reveals the challenges and excitement of a young Philadelphian in the antebellum South

Emily Wharton Sinkler was only eighteen years old when she began to write to distant relatives, ch…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Understanding Richard Powers https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060740/Understanding-Richard-Powers
A critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal

Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most importan…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 A Portion of the People https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060748/A-Portion-of-the-People
A fresh interpretation, in text and illustrations, of Jewish life and culture in the American South

In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800