The American Discovery of Europe
by Jack D. Forbes
University of Illinois Press / Jack D. Forbes (Ph.D., history, ’59) professor emeritus of Native American studies and anthropology at University of California, Davis, investigates the voyages of America’s Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus’s 1492 arrival in the “New World.”

Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth
by Natalie Pace
Vanguard Press / Natalie Pace (B.A., English, ’94) offers a sensible, easy-to-follow yet powerful set of investing strategies for the would-be investor.

British Periodicals and Romantic Identity
The “Literary Lower Empire”
by Mark Schoenfield
Palgrave Macmillan / Mark Schoenfield (MPW, ’86; Ph.D., English, ’90), associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, explores how periodicals such as the Edinburgh, Blackwood’s, and the Westminster became the repositories and creators of “public opinion.”

Flying Lessons
by Penny Dumm Wilkes
Finishing Line Press / Penny Dumm Wilkes (B.A., anthropology, ’68), adjunct professor of creative and nature writing at National University, offers this book of poetry that according to one reviewer, “paints the landscape of the human heart from 3,000 feet.”

Read more articles from USC College Magazine's Spring/Summer 2009 issue.