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The shocking history of homicide in the Palmetto State at the dawn of the twentieth century

Carnival of Blood presents the often disturbing history of changes in homicidal tendencies in…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816752/Myrtle-Beach
How a coastal farming region became an internationally renowned tourist destination

A relatively young city, Myrtle Beach has earned an international reputation as a tourism mecca on th…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816599/South-Carolina-and-the-New-Deal
Examines how South Carolina, on its own since the Civil War, rejoined the United States in the 1930s

In this history of a Southern state's experience with the New Deal, Jack Irby Hayes,…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816789/Coming-Through
Oral histories of formerly enlaved people and their families along the South Carolina coast

Coming Through marks the first complete publication of these interviews with former slaves an…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816396/South-Carolina-in-the-Modern-Age
A nuanced view of the Palmetto State in the twentieth century as written by the state's leading historian

Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first hi…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816332/The-Siege-of-Charleston-1861-1865
On April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired on by the Confederate batteries located around the Charleston Harbor. Within thirty-four hours, the fort had surrendered. From that moment on, the reca…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817593/Heaven-Is-a-Beautiful-Place-second-edition
Peterkin recounts stories of her family and life in her lowcountry coastal community

Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterki…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816625/A-Portion-of-the-People
A fresh interpretation, in text and illustrations, of Jewish life and culture in the American South

In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816504/Promiseland
A portrait of a dynamic African American community in the rural South

Promiseland chronicles the intergenerational story of fifty African American families living in the rural community…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4816469/A-World-Turned-Upside-Down
A remarkable chronicle of one family's thirty-year plummet from prominence to poverty

A World Turned Upside Down follows the trials of the nineteenth-century planter family that once do…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700