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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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061306/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061318/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061326/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061328/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061335/The-Child-in-the-Electric-Chair
"An unsettling yet important historical excavation and true-crime narrative."—Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., t…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061360/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061415/Liberty-Street
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Purchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish family

As Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061398/Mary-Turner-and-the-Mob
A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings

The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of t…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4061384/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…]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:43:41 -0700