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From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people

In the antebellum southern United States, major landowners typically hired o…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410483/Black-Freedom-in-the-Age-of-Slavery
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial differenc…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410482/Our-Country-First-Then-Greenville
Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South city

Greenville, South Carolina has become an…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410454/To-Count-Our-Days
An investigation of the institution as a focal point for the many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically

Columbia Theological Sem…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410451/Richardson-Sinkler-Connections
A fascinating look at the private lives of prosperous landowners in antebellum South Carolina

Offering a richly textured picture of early national South Carolina, Richardson-Sinkler Con…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410432/Southern-Women-in-the-Progressive-Era
Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era

From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called t…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410400/Smoke-Signals-from-Samarcand
A case study and dramatic retelling of young girls on trial for arson at a reform school

In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls—all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410383/Savannah-in-the-New-South
An examination of the Georgian city's complicated and sometimes turbulent development

Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr.…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410394/South-Carolina-State-University
The turbulent history of one of South Carolina's historically black colleges and its significant role in the civil rights movement

Since its founding in 1896, South Carolina State Unive…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4410484/Stories-of-Struggle
In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burning…]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:46 -0700