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In A Life Afield, A. Hunter Smith welcomes readers to sit by his fireside as he recounts twelve evocative tales from his extensive experience as a hunter and hunting guide. Though Smith could…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534516/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,…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534514/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534500/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534479/Patrick-N-Lynch-1817-1882
Patrick Neison Lynch, born in a small town in Ireland, became the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina. Lynch is remembered today mostly for his support of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534464/Stories-of-a-Life-Afield
Two short stories about the life lessons a hunter learned in pursuit of wild turkeys and deer.

In "Thanks to Gert," the first of this two-story ebook, A. Hunter Smith recalls one of the…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534438/South-Carolina-Fire-Eater
The first book-length biography of the controversial congressman, secessionist, and Confederate colonel

South Carolina Fire-Eater is the first book-length biography of Laurence Massillo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534448/I-Came-Out-of-the-Eighteenth-Century
John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed b…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534536/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534469/Song-of-My-Life
With the discipline of a surgeon performing a critical operation, acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis strips away layers of his nine decades of life to expose the blood and bone of a hum…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700