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The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the pe…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061620/From-Barbycu-to-Barbecue
An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that southern barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported.

The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a raven…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061611/Child
2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist • A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book • A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism

Child is the stor…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061608/Finding-Francis
Winner of the 2023 College Language Association Book Award

Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history

Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found—in archival materi…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061599/Light-and-Legacies
An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature

In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061574/The-Child-in-the-Electric-Chair
The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century

At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, G…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061567/Gullah-Spirituals
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061565/Hosea-Williams
The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericks

When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressm…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061557/Only-Wanna-Be-with-You
Experience the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of one of the biggest bands of the nineties

In 1985, Mark Bryan heard Darius Rucker singing in a dorm shower at the University of South…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061545/Live-at-Jackson-Station
The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhous…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800