uscpress.com - Memoir & Biography https://uscpress.com/ Madam Chief Justice https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209396/Madam-Chief-Justice
The biography of the first female Supreme Court Justice of South Carolina

In Madam Chief Justice, editors W. Lewis Burke Jr. and Joan P. Assey chronicle the remarkable career of Jean Ho…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Colonel Henry Theodore Titus https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209447/Colonel-Henry-Theodore-Titus
The first full-length biography of a saloon-brawling braggart and frontier opportunist turned justice of the peace

Henry Theodore Titus (1822-1881) was the quintessential adventurer, so…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Focus on Playwrights https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209436/Focus-on-Playwrights
A photographer's intimate view of writers' personal and creative journeys

In 1989 Susan Johann was hired to photograph Christopher Durang for a magazine article about his play Naomi in…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Becoming Southern Writers https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209433/Becoming-Southern-Writers
Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague

Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prin…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Wil Lou Gray https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209398/Wil-Lou-Gray
In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (188…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209370/A-Yankee-Scholar-in-Coastal-South-Carolina
New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals,…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Belvidere, commemorative edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209354/Belvidere-commemorative-edition
"Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach," begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located in between Santee River and E…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Florida Founder William P. DuVal https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209368/Florida-Founder-William-P-DuVal
The biography of a well-connected but nearly forgotten American antebellum politician

In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of th…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Citizen-Scholar https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209468/Citizen-Scholar
A collection of essays reflecting on Edgar as friend and colleague and on the subjects of his scholarly work

Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Car…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700 Conversations with the Conroys https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209389/Conversations-with-the-Conroys
A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as plu…]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:05 -0700