uscpress.com - Southern History https://uscpress.com/ Smoke Signals from Samarcand https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061432/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Richardson-Sinkler Connections https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061483/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061464/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Masters of Violence https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061441/Masters-of-Violence
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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061433/Single-White-Slaveholding-Women-in-the-Nineteenth-Century-American-South
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South

Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South i…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Savannah in the New South https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061415/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Duck and Cover https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061374/Duck-and-Cover
A short story memoir of life in the segregated South as seen through the innocent eyes of a young white girl

Duck and Cover is a wry, laconic memoir penned by Kathie Farnell, based on h…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 Claiming Freedom https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061414/Claiming-Freedom
An exploration of the political and social experiences of African Americans in transition from enslaved to citizen

Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transitio…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 To Count Our Days https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061486/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 South Carolina State University https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061426/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, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800