uscpress.com - Southern Classics https://uscpress.com/ Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534138/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…]]>
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Bill Arp's Peace Papers https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534204/Bill-Arps-Peace-Papers
A compendium of Southern witticisms by the Confederacy's most famous humorist

First published in 1873, Bill Arp's Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903), is a collection of wr…]]>
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Sam Jones' Own Book https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534200/Sam-Jones-Own-Book
A collection of popular sermons by one of the nineteenth-century's most famous evangelists

Deemed the "Georgia Wonder," Methodist preacher Sam Jones (1847-1906) was one of the most famo…]]>
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Blackways of Kent https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534154/Blackways-of-Kent
An account from a participant-observer of African American life in a small Southern town prior to the civil rights eras

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millway…]]>
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Townways of Kent https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534151/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…]]>
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Millways of Kent https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534150/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…]]>
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The Southerner https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534143/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…]]>
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Life and Labor in the Old South https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534117/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…]]>
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War, Politics, and Reconstruction https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534099/War-Politics-and-Reconstruction
A new edition of the notorious carpetbagger's personal and political memoir

A memoir of the ambitious life and controversial political career of Louisiana governor Henry Clay Warmoth (1…]]>
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The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534109/The-Southern-Literary-Messenger-1834-1864
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…]]>
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