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Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled alo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534195/Lewis-Coolidge-and-the-Voyage-of-the-Amethyst-1806-1811
A firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville

Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man who accompanied…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534224/The-Day-the-Johnboat-Went-up-the-Mountain
True tales of underwater adventures and discoveries in the Palmetto State's maritime history

Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two dec…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534231/Historic-Canals-Waterways-of-South-Carolina
The first history of the canal boom that revolutionized transportation in the Palmetto State

South Carolina's first transportation revolution was the development of a network of canals…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534307/Promotion-or-the-Bottom-of-the-River
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534402/USS-Constellation-on-the-Dismal-Coast
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534405/A-Sea-of-Misadventures
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534765/The-Gulf-of-Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the pe…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534922/The-Mobile-River-updated-edition
Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association

In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534916/Port-Cities-of-the-Atlantic-World
Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world

Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that exam…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700