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A compelling narrative of how American ingenuity solved an international scientific mystery

At the turn of the nineteenth century, even the most experienced mariners were still risking…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409479/Patroons-and-Periaguas
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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409388/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409387/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409382/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409370/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409297/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409073/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409087/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409138/Dead-Men-Tell-No-Tales
A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean

Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800