uscpress.com - Books https://uscpress.com/ The Slaveholders' Dilemma https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137732/The-Slaveholders-Dilemma
In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Eugene D. Genovese explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves as supporters of freedom but…]]>
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Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137724/Two-Hundred-Years-of-Charleston-Cooking-second-edition
A 1930s collection of more than 300 recipes from South Carolina housewives and the African American cooks they employed

First published in 1930 as 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, this…]]>
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Steady and Measured https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137756/Steady-and-Measured
Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State during the civil rights era

Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benn…]]>
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Birdlife https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137716/Birdlife
An illustrated flight across the Southeast

Birdlife invites readers into the lives of birds we often meet in the southeastern United States. Writer, scientist, and illustrator Todd Ball…]]>
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Exporting Reconstruction https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137780/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…]]>
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137805/Heaven-Is-a-Beautiful-Place-second-edition
Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions…]]>
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History & Women, Culture & Faith, Volume 5 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137708/History-Women-Culture-Faith-Volume-5
History and Women, Culture and Faith is a five-volume collection of eighty essays and journal articles spanning the extraordinary intellectual career of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007). A w…]]>
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From Barbycu to Barbecue https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137748/From-Barbycu-to-Barbecue
An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that southern barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported.

The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a raven…]]>
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The Rhetoric of Outrage https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137764/The-Rhetoric-of-Outrage
An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage

On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, so…]]>
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A Short History of Greenville https://uscpress.com/book-post/3137772/A-Short-History-of-Greenville
A concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from backcountry settlement to one of America's best small cities

Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly inc…]]>
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