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What a night! Thank you everyone who came out to share some popcorn and learn about the inspiring life of Edwin Augustus Harleston 🩵 As Dr. McDaniel’s publisher, it’s wonderful to see the support she has, so thank you for being with us! Get your copy of A Dream Deferred uscpress.com/A-Dream-Defe...

Congratulations to Carolyn Click ick for winning the 2026 South Carolina African American Heritage Commission Book Prize for The Cost of the Vote! Get your copy at uscpress.com/The-Cost-of-...

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Congratulations to Claudia Smith Brinson and Cecil Williams for receiving an honorable mention for the 2026 South Carolina African American Heritage Commission Book Prize for Injustice in Focus! Get your copy at uscpress.com/Injustice-in...
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New Year means new opportunities! University of South Carolina Press is hiring a Marketing, Sales, and Publicity Director. We are continuing our search from the fall with a slightly higher salary range! You can find more information at uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/201...
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Thank you for the support, and you can get a copy right now for 40% off during our Black History Month sale!

Happy pub day to Mollie Barnes for her book, Paper Heroines! Barnes studies the ways women represented their own and one another's lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. Learn more about these freedom fighters at uscpress.com/Paper-Heroines
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Claudia Smith Brinson to Be Inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors Claudia Smith Brinson, author of Stories of Struggle and Injustice in Focus, will be inducted to the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the state's literary hall of fame, during the biennial…

Claudia Smith Brinson to Be Inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors; two time USC Press author, Brinson will be inducted to the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the state's literary hall of fame, during the biennial induction weekend March 20-22, 2026.
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A New Biography Reveals the Life and Legacy of Edwin Augustus Harleston, Charleston’s Forgotten Portrait Artist | Charleston Magazine What fuels the creative impulse? The question is as old as the human spirit—and central to it. The quest for beauty, the desire to represent that essential wonderment that stirs the imagination, has p...

Hot off the press! A book review for M. Akua McDaniel's new book, A Dream Deferred, is now available from Charleston Magazine: charlestonmag.com/features/a_n...
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14 ways to celebrate 100 years of Black History Month in Columbia February is time to celebrate the legacy, culture and contribution of African Americans in the country. Here are ways to do so in Columbia, South Carolina.

Free Times mentions - Cecil Williams and Richard Samuel Roberts
SoulHAUS Sessions: A Conversation with Cecil Williams - Friday, February 27 @ Koger Center
Richard Samuel Roberts photos exhibited at the Columbia Museum of Art
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Happy Pub Day to Edward J. Hagerty for his new book, Soldier of the South! This book is the first comprehensive examination of Anderson's life, providing a view of an officer's experiences on the frontier, in Mexico, and during the American Civil War. uscpress.com/Soldier-of-t... #history #booksky

Last night Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP hosted the launch of Vincent Sheheen's CONCISE GUIDE TO SOUTH CAROLINA STATE GOVERNMENT. @uscpress.bsky.social is the proud publisher, and we are eager to do more to promote civic education and engagement in South Carolina.

Martin Luther King, and filling in the blanks for SC Lowcountry Gullah It is an advance to human rights that the story of the Gullah-Geechee people of South Carolina is today being told more often and better than ever.

Keith Rushing and Descended featured in The Island Packet

Article for Martin Luther King, Jr. day makes ties to a search for community and healing for African Americans. Rushing will also speak about his book at an event in Hilton Head on February 10. www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-...

Happy Pub Day to M. Akua McDaniel for, A Dream Deferred: The Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston! McDaniel offers a full portrait of Harleston's life and career, one that had an outsized impact on the American art world, and beyond. Get your copy at uscpress.com/A-Dream-Defe...
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Happy to share that @molliebarnes.bsky.social's new book is headed to the @uscpress.bsky.social warehouse! Congrats on this accomplishment and happy reading to everyone engaged with the history of the Lowcountry and the Sea Islands! FYI @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sarah Singer, Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, whose book, The Patient Empowerment Paradox: Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies, is in production and will be published in February 2026!

Happy New Year, #FeministFridays! Today we congratulate Sarah Singer on her new book, The Patient Empowerment Paradox: Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies, which will be published in February 2026 with @uscpress.bsky.social!

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One Photographer’s Big Picture 87 year old photographer Cecil Williams has seen decades of history through his camera lens. He witnessed the civil rights movement in South Carolina and around the country. NBC News’ Marquise Francis...

Thanks to Marquise Francis and @nbcnews.com for traveling to Orangeburg, SC, to talk to Cecil Williams about his photography and the SC Civil Rights Museum.

Great segment here: www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...

Great book from @uscpress.bsky.social here: uscpress.com/Injustice-in...

Congratulations to Patty Wilde at Washington State University Tri-Cities on the publication of her first book, Winning Our Wonder: Rhetorical Re/Constructions of American Civil War Women on the Web!

Book cover reads: Winning Our Wonder: Rhetorical Re/Constructions of American Civil War Women on the Web, authored by Patty Wilde. A close-up of an engraved illustration of a Black woman is beside the text.

Welcome back to #FeministFridays, Wrapped Edition, where we're celebrating @wildepatty.bsky.social's first book, Winning Our Wonder: Rhetorical Re/Constructions of American Civil War Women on the Web w/ @uscpress.bsky.social. Congratulations & we can't wait to read it!

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Ed Hagerty's definitive biography of Richard Anderson just hit the warehouse and can be purchased from @uscpress.bsky.social Anderson's war spanned firing on Ft. Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox--the whole career of Confederate cause can be assessed through his life. #CivilWarHistory #AmHist

Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season Whatever success I can claim as a published author is the result of editors at academic publishers believing in and supporting my projects.

If you are buying books this Holiday Season, make sure to support university presses. Lots of great deals. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Over here at @uscpress.bsky.social I am listening to Walter Edgar and Alfred Turner talking about 25 years of Walter Edgar's Journal on SC Public Radio! Necessary listening for all South Carolinians and those passionate about American history.

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Everyone, say welcome to the Understanding Contemporary American Literature shelf to N. S. Boone for his new book, Understanding Jorie Graham! Since her first book appeared in 1980, Jorie Graham has challenged readers with her bold, innovative, and capacious poetry. uscpress.com/Understandin...

Thank you to everyone who attended my Annual History Lecture at @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social last night, where I launched my book “The Republican House Divided.”

It was wonderful to discuss my work with such an attentive, friendly audience 📚🇺🇸🗃️

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Thank you for everyone who came by our booth to support us and our authors!

And Happy pub day to Patty Wilde for Winning Our Wonder! Who is remembered? Who forgotten? Wilde draws on the methods of rhetorical circulation studies to trace how the Civil War stories of influential female figures have evolved in print and online. uscpress.com/Winning-Our-...

Happy pub day to Vincent Sheheen for his book, The Concise Guide to South Carolina State Government! Published with the generous support of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, a law firm proudly serving the needs of business and government across SC. Get yours at uscpress.com/The-Concise-...

@uscpress.bsky.social is feeling festive at this year's Holiday Market, sponsored by the Columbia Junior League. #booksale #happyholidays

These Crispy Cheese Biscuits Were A Southern Legend—And One Niece Made Sure They'd Live On For one South Carolina family, funerals, baptisms, weddings, and holidays were unthinkable without crispy cheese biscuits that Aunt Mimi had baked and shared generously with others.

The Cheese Biscuit Queen has been featured in Southern Living Magazine alongside her amazing cheese biscuits! Read the full article here: www.southernliving.com/cheese-biscu...

We're proud to publish your book! Happy pub day! uscpress.com/The-Republic...