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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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060944/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060940/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060894/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060891/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060890/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060883/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060857/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060839/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060849/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800