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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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409075/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409076/Agriculture-in-Ante-Bellum-Mississippi
A germinal case study of the antebellum cotton kingdom as it manifested itself in the Deep South

First published in 1958, John Hebron Moore's Agriculture in Ante-Bellum Mississippi pres…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409097/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409114/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409118/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409130/The-Plantation
The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual history

A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation,…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409172/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409191/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409189/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800