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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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534171/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534001/Porchers-Creek
A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast

"Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hidea…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534216/The-Boykin-Spaniel
Newly revised, the definitive guide to the state dog of South Carolina

Since the origin of the breed in the early twentieth-century, the Boykin spaniel has proven to be a crackerjack re…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533789/Seed-from-Madagascar
Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves—the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil W…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533742/South-Carolina-revised-edition
The Federal Writers Project creates an image of South Carolina of years past

All of us, at one time or another, have had a strong desire to be able to get into a time machine and be tra…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534923/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534055/The-South-Carolina-Rice-Plantation
A classic look at one of South Carolina's most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built

The reissue of The Sou…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533927/The-Huguenots-of-Colonial-South-Carolina
The definitive study of the Huguenot influence in South Carolina

First published in 1928, The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina is the authoritative work on the Huguenot presence in…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533858/State-of-Rebellion
A chronicle of postwar resistance in the Palmetto State

State of Rebellion recounts the volatile course of Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest, and most dy…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700