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The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writer

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922220/Central-to-Their-Lives
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South

Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist paint…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922238/Childrens-Biographies-of-African-American-Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literature

In Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922245/Charleston-Belles-Abroad
An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum period

In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922246/A-Dream-and-a-Chisel
A portrait of a young artist's formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words

Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a n…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922247/Southern-Women-in-the-Progressive-Era
Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era

From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called t…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922276/Queering-Romantic-Engagement-in-the-Postal-Age
2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

Romantic letters are central to understanding…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922305/Your-Daughters-Will-Prophesy
How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day

Caught between their identity as Christians and social norms that silenced them, Am…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922292/Crossings-and-Encounters
A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imagination

For centuries the Atlantic world ha…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3922216/Single-White-Slaveholding-Women-in-the-Nineteenth-Century-American-South
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South

Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South i…]]> Fri, 02 May 2025 07:19:39 -0700