The University of South Carolina Press

07/18/2025

Check out this amazing interview with our author and for her forthcoming book, Welcome to the Sh*t Show, on YouTube!

07/17/2025

Join the South Carolina State Museum in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with a talk and video presentation from author William S. Walker about his book published by USC Press on the discovery of the lost letters from a fallen soldier in the Battle of the Bulge. Info here: https://scmuseum.org/events/book-talk-conversation-author-william-s-walker This program is free to the public. Online RSVPs are encouraged by emailing [email protected]

07/11/2025

"How can humanity change to create a less violent world? How do we learn from the past to create futures where no one is left behind? Parker suggests that there’s several lessons readers can learn from Butler’s books." --Helena Ramsaroop in her new essay: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/08/all-that-you-touch-you-change/

Helena Ramsaroop Octavia E. Butler passed away nearly twenty years ago, but her legacy lives on in every reader she touched with her words. She is often regarded as one of the most important writer…

07/11/2025

"Hayes frequently takes the work of others and then builds upon it, which is precisely what we need in Gonzo Studies," --David S. Willis in his review for Kevin Hayes' new book, Understanding Hunter S. Thompson. Read the full review here: https://huntersthompson.substack.com/p/understanding-hunter-s-thompson-2025

My review of the latest book about Hunter Thompson.

07/10/2025

The Good Grief Network just listed their Summer 2025 reading recommendations and it's nice to see our book, Peace by Peace, in such good company! Check out the list here:

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

07/07/2025

Happy Pub Day to Rebecca Capobianco Toy for her book, Landscapes of Freedom:
Restoring the History of Emancipation and Citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861–1940! Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era. Some of the earliest acts of wartime emancipation happened in the Tidewater of Virginia, where enslaved people voted with their feet and escaped the Confederacy by crossing into US Army lines. Get your copy at https://uscpress.com/Landscapes-of-Freedom This concludes our Spring 2025 season!

07/01/2025

Marketing tried out the new today! Pictured: Pea Flower Lemonade, Thai Tea, and the Blueberry Oreo Cheesecake 🩵 everything was delicious and the vibes were so peaceful! 10/10 will be coming back 🩵

07/01/2025

“Doing peace means bringing about the conditions that support human and planetary flourishing. To do peace is to be creative, imaginative, and collaborative. Peace represents the best of us. It is the manifestation of human excellence.” —Silvestri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SJItD2RfI&ab_channel=GoodGriefNetwork

“Doing peace means bringing about the conditions that support human and planetary flourishing. To do peace is to be creative, imaginative, and collaborative....

06/26/2025

Happy Pub Day to Anthony S. Parent Jr. for his book, Flocks of Birds: Virginia Colonialism into Native Country, 1670–1776! Flocks of Birds is an inclusive and interconnected history of the Virginia colony, one that demonstrates the centrality of Native history to America's colonial history. By delving deep into the primary record, Anthony S. Parent explores the evolving Indigenous response to Virginia colonialism in Native country across three generations, from 1670 to 1776. Get your copy now at https://uscpress.com/Flocks-of-Birds