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A new edition of the only history of what was once the South's premiere literary magazine

The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run (1834-1864) and was in it…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017146/Townways-of-Kent
The long-awaited publication of the third volume in the Kent Trilogy's study of social stratification in the small-town South

Immersion into town life in York, South Carolina, was an ea…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017145/Millways-of-Kent
A compelling portrait of life in a Southern piedmont mill village after the Great Depression

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the p…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017138/The-Southerner
A fictious rendering of the uphill battles faced by a progressive Southerner

Presaging William Faulkner's Quentin Compson, the protagonist of Walter Hines Page's The Southerner inches t…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017133/Soil-Exhaustion-as-a-Factor-in-the-Agricultural-History-of-Virginia-and-Maryland-1606-1860
The germinal study of agriculture's impact on southern history from colonial through antebellum times

Recognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American histori…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017121/The-Unexpected-Exodus
A firsthand account of a bomb factory's impact on small-town life in South Carolina

First published in 1971, this poignant memoir by grade school teacher Louise Cassels recounts the dis…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017114/McGillivray-of-the-Creeks
An Indian perspective into native and Euroamerican diplomacy in the South

First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the stu…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017112/Life-and-Labor-in-the-Old-South
A new edition of the groundbreaking social history of the American South

Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the cul…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017008/Pitchfork-Ben-Tillman
The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader

Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017030/The-Slave-Power
An early assessment of the contest between an economically defunct and politically aggressive Southern slave power and a liberal, free-wage-labor North

The Slave Power, John E. Cairnes'…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700