Michael J. McGandy
@mjmcgandy.bsky.social
Director of University of South Carolina Press
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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...
#arthistory
#arthistory
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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...
#arthistory
#arthistory
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
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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
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Recently found out that I’ll be a featured author at the 2026 Savannah Book Festival alongside folks like Stacy Abrams, John Jennings, Damian Duffy, Jeneva Rose, & more! 🎉#octaviabutler
www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
General info: www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
General info: www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
Kendra R. Parker - Savannah Book Festival
Dr. Kendra R. Parker is a scholar and educator with a passion for teaching and researching African American literature broadly, with specific interests in Black vampires, Black horror, literary Afrofu...
www.savannahbookfestival.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Recently found out that I’ll be a featured author at the 2026 Savannah Book Festival alongside folks like Stacy Abrams, John Jennings, Damian Duffy, Jeneva Rose, & more! 🎉#octaviabutler
www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
General info: www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
General info: www.savannahbookfestival.org/festival-sat...
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...
Great segment here: www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
Great book from @uscpress.bsky.social here: uscpress.com/Injustice-in...
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...
www.nbcnews.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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...
Great segment here: www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
Great book from @uscpress.bsky.social here: uscpress.com/Injustice-in...
Re the conversation below, start at 35:22 for a great, respectful debate about keeping books in print and the mission of university presses.
Thx to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this talk about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing: share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92 HT @lisambayer.bsky.social, Dean Smith @dukepress.bsky.social, Jennifer Crew @columbiaup.bsky.social, @williamgermano.bsky.social, @gmbritton.bsky.social, @noctambulate.bsky.social
Retirement special: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 126
Douglas Armato, the fifth director in the University of Minnesota Press's 100-year history, will soon retire after 27 years of leadership at the Press—following an almost-50-year career in book publis...
share.transistor.fm
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Re the conversation below, start at 35:22 for a great, respectful debate about keeping books in print and the mission of university presses.
Thx to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this talk about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing: share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92 HT @lisambayer.bsky.social, Dean Smith @dukepress.bsky.social, Jennifer Crew @columbiaup.bsky.social, @williamgermano.bsky.social, @gmbritton.bsky.social, @noctambulate.bsky.social
Retirement special: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 126
Douglas Armato, the fifth director in the University of Minnesota Press's 100-year history, will soon retire after 27 years of leadership at the Press—following an almost-50-year career in book publis...
share.transistor.fm
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Thx to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this talk about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing: share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92 HT @lisambayer.bsky.social, Dean Smith @dukepress.bsky.social, Jennifer Crew @columbiaup.bsky.social, @williamgermano.bsky.social, @gmbritton.bsky.social, @noctambulate.bsky.social
Happy holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happy holidays!
As 2025 concludes, I highlight our great spring 2026 season. (See the covers below.) My colleagues at @uscpress.bsky.social have done fantastic work these past 12 months, & each impressive cover is just an anticipation of the quality inside each book (print and digital). Happy (Reading) Holidays!
It's cover reveal time for our Spring 2026 season of books! Thank you to our wonderful designers for helping us look our best. Check out these titles and more at uscpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As 2025 concludes, I highlight our great spring 2026 season. (See the covers below.) My colleagues at @uscpress.bsky.social have done fantastic work these past 12 months, & each impressive cover is just an anticipation of the quality inside each book (print and digital). Happy (Reading) Holidays!
Calling all book lovers, our holiday sale is live now until December 31st! All books are 50% with free shipping on all U.S. orders over $50! The sale is on our website only at uscpress.com and use code JHOL25 at checkout. Happy reading!
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
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.
www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/podcast/walt...
www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/podcast/walt...
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/podcast/walt...
www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/podcast/walt...
Great to hear from Rebecca Battle-Bryant of South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce about encouraging younger people who are beginning careers and the role that internships play in that process. HT to the Columbia Chamber for hosting a full year of great speakers.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Great to hear from Rebecca Battle-Bryant of South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce about encouraging younger people who are beginning careers and the role that internships play in that process. HT to the Columbia Chamber for hosting a full year of great speakers.
Holiday gift buying is picking up and, well, you would do well to fill out your list with some @uscpress.bsky.social titles, ... all at 50% off!
Calling all book lovers, our holiday sale is live now until December 31st! All books are 50% with free shipping on all U.S. orders over $50! The sale is on our website only at uscpress.com and use code JHOL25 at checkout. Happy reading!
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Holiday gift buying is picking up and, well, you would do well to fill out your list with some @uscpress.bsky.social titles, ... all at 50% off!
@uscpress.bsky.social is taking in the views on this third day of the Columbia Junior League's Holiday Market! #HappyHolidays #booksale
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@uscpress.bsky.social is taking in the views on this third day of the Columbia Junior League's Holiday Market! #HappyHolidays #booksale
@uscpress.bsky.social is feeling festive at this year's Holiday Market, sponsored by the Columbia Junior League. #booksale #happyholidays
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@uscpress.bsky.social is feeling festive at this year's Holiday Market, sponsored by the Columbia Junior League. #booksale #happyholidays
Tis the season, and I encourage readers everywhere to pick up @uscpress.bsky.social books as holiday gifts and treats for yourself. Online (at 50%off) or via your local indie bookseller. Making the holiday reading season bright!
Calling all book lovers, our holiday sale is live now until December 31st! All books are 50% with free shipping on all U.S. orders over $50! The sale is on our website only at uscpress.com and use code JHOL25 at checkout. Happy reading!
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Tis the season, and I encourage readers everywhere to pick up @uscpress.bsky.social books as holiday gifts and treats for yourself. Online (at 50%off) or via your local indie bookseller. Making the holiday reading season bright!
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
Calling all book lovers, our holiday sale is live now until December 31st! All books are 50% with free shipping on all U.S. orders over $50! The sale is on our website only at uscpress.com and use code JHOL25 at checkout. Happy reading!
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Calling all book lovers, our holiday sale is live now until December 31st! All books are 50% with free shipping on all U.S. orders over $50! The sale is on our website only at uscpress.com and use code JHOL25 at checkout. Happy reading!
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
#booksale #holidaysale #booksky
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
It's cover reveal time for our Spring 2026 season of books! Thank you to our wonderful designers for helping us look our best. Check out these titles and more at uscpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's cover reveal time for our Spring 2026 season of books! Thank you to our wonderful designers for helping us look our best. Check out these titles and more at uscpress.com
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
Thank you to The George Washington University - College of Professional Studies for having USC Press at this year's Ethics in Publishing Conference! We were part of a wonderful panel and you can watch the full hour here: gwpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/15t...
Equity and Inclusion in Publishing | 15th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference | GW Publishing
Equity and Inclusion in Publishing
Moderated by Yael Fitzpatrick
The Rhetoric of Hybrid Publishing: Negotiating Legitimacy and Stigma in the Modern Publishing Landscape, Brittany Griffiths
Equity a...
gwpress.manifoldapp.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Thank you to The George Washington University - College of Professional Studies for having USC Press at this year's Ethics in Publishing Conference! We were part of a wonderful panel and you can watch the full hour here: gwpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/15t...
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
We love to see universities highlighting the work of their professors! Thank you @clemsontigers.bsky.social for this article on Otis W. Pickett Sr. news.clemson.edu/pickett-publ... Read the article for updates on Pickett's upcoming author events!
Pickett publishes book on South Carolina religious history
Clemson University Historian Otis Pickett has been a Presbyterian since he was a student at Clemson. Before he went to graduate school to earn a master’s
news.clemson.edu
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We love to see universities highlighting the work of their professors! Thank you @clemsontigers.bsky.social for this article on Otis W. Pickett Sr. news.clemson.edu/pickett-publ... Read the article for updates on Pickett's upcoming author events!
Looking forward to the launch of Mary Whyte’s AN ARTIST’S LIFE this evening at the Charleston Library Society!
Official Book Trailer for Mary Whyte’s new book, An Artist’s Life! Available for sale October 14, 2025 at uscpress.com/An-Artists-L... or wherever you buy books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09t...
#art #watercolor #newbook
#art #watercolor #newbook
An Artist's Life
The path to discovering and developing the artist within During her fifty years as an artist and teacher, Mary Whyte has discovered that tapping our personal well of creativity and pas…
uscpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Looking forward to the launch of Mary Whyte’s AN ARTIST’S LIFE this evening at the Charleston Library Society!
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
“It takes continuing on the path no matter what else is going on.” -- Henrie Monteith Treadwell in a recent interview with USC, sc.edu/uofsc/posts/...
Beyond ’63
Alumna Henrie Monteith Treadwell filed the lawsuit that desegregated USC. That moment was merely the prologue to a long and meaningful career.
sc.edu
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“It takes continuing on the path no matter what else is going on.” -- Henrie Monteith Treadwell in a recent interview with USC, sc.edu/uofsc/posts/...
Reposted by Michael J. McGandy
All are invited to attend this webinar, Publishing with a University Press, on Thurs 11/13. This is the 2nd in a 4-part publishing series organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.
Register here: https://buff.ly/38DpVOR
Register here: https://buff.ly/38DpVOR
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
All are invited to attend this webinar, Publishing with a University Press, on Thurs 11/13. This is the 2nd in a 4-part publishing series organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.
Register here: https://buff.ly/38DpVOR
Register here: https://buff.ly/38DpVOR
@uscpress.bsky.social is loving being at the @scstatefair.bsky.social and talking food, culture, and history!
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@uscpress.bsky.social is loving being at the @scstatefair.bsky.social and talking food, culture, and history!
It was a great weekend in Atlanta and we at @uscpress.bsky.social were so honored to share Dr. Treadwell's memoir, COME ALONG WITH ME. Thanks to Bobby Donaldson at the @sc.edu Center for Civil Rights History and Research for making it happen at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social annual meeting! #asalh25 #asalh
Hey #aslah25 folks, this is happening today at 5pm!
Hey @asalh-bhm.bsky.social attendees, our author, Henrie Montieth Treadwell will be signing her new book, Come Along with Me: An African American Woman's Journey for Justice, tomorrow September 26th from 5pm-6pm! You can get a copy of her book in advance at the USC Press booth now! #ASALH
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It was a great weekend in Atlanta and we at @uscpress.bsky.social were so honored to share Dr. Treadwell's memoir, COME ALONG WITH ME. Thanks to Bobby Donaldson at the @sc.edu Center for Civil Rights History and Research for making it happen at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social annual meeting! #asalh25 #asalh