uscpress.com - South Carolina History & Culture https://uscpress.com/ The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418105/The-South-Carolina-Encyclopedia-Guide-to-the-American-Revolution-in-South-Carolina
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina details the people, places, and struggles that defined the region's prominent role in the path to American li…]]>
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Relieve Us of This Burthen https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418064/Relieve-Us-of-This-Burthen
A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American Revolution

Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and…]]>
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A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418277/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,…]]>
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Broke by the War https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418022/Broke-by-the-War
The revealing correspondence of a South Carolina slave trader from years just before the Civil War

Broke by the War is a collection of more than 140 letters written between 1852 and 185…]]>
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At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418423/At-Home-in-the-Heart-of-the-Horseshoe
A pictorial and narrative tour of a historic landmark at the center of the university's original campus

The University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 on a modest parcel of land n…]]>
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418704/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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City of the Silent https://uscpress.com/book-post/3417987/City-of-the-Silent
A guide to more than two hundred of the most famous, infamous, and influential individuals now interred in the iconic Charleston landmark

Charleston is a city of stories. As in any city…]]>
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The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418199/The-Market-Preparation-of-Carolina-Rice
The first book to illustrate and describe the implements and machines used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets

Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., eminent field biologist and lowcoun…]]>
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Wil Lou Gray https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418306/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…]]>
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The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill https://uscpress.com/book-post/3418365/The-Civil-War-Letters-of-Alexander-McNeill
More than two hundred eloquently written Civil War letters of love and life on the battlefield

During the American Civil War, Alexander "Sandy" McNeill, a southern merchant, served in t…]]>
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