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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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173751/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173599/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,…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173788/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173397/South-Carolina-in-the-Modern-Age
Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173333/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174567/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173625/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173505/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4173470/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…]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700