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A collection of newspaper editorials written by one of the South's premier literary figures of the nineteenth century

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayis…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534408/Shrill-Hurrahs
In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Côté Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampt…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534428/Notes-from-a-Colored-Girl
A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free Black American young woman in the nineteenth century

In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life a…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534511/Rebellion-Reconstruction-and-Redemption-1861-1893-Volume-2
The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil War

In Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534600/South-Carolina-in-the-Civil-War-and-Reconstruction-Eras
A collection of important but little-known scholarship examining the Civil War and Reconstruction

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras is an anthology of the most end…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534622/Yes-Lord-I-Know-the-Road
The first comprehensive five-century chronicle of the South Carolina African American experience

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road is the first comprehensive history of African Americans in th…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534867/Finding-Francis
Winner of the 2023 College Language Association Book Award

Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history

Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found—in archival materi…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534909/Exporting-Reconstruction
How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals

Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both fore…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534877/The-Man-Who-Started-the-Civil-War
A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr. piloted a small skiff…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534352/Twilight-on-the-South-Carolina-Rice-Fields
A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom from one of South Carolina's founding families

The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700