uscpress.com - South Carolina History & Culture https://uscpress.com/ South Carolina at the Brink https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602322/South-Carolina-at-the-Brink
As the governor of South Carolina during the height of the civil rights movement, Robert E. McNair faced the task of leading the state through the dismantling of its pervasive Jim Crow culture…]]>
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Daufuskie Island https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602362/Daufuskie-Island
2008 Essence Literary Award for Photography

First published in 1982, Daufuskie Island vividly captured life on a South Carolina Sea Island before the arrival of resort culture through t…]]>
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Money, Trade, and Power https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602209/Money-Trade-and-Power
Examines the economic and cultural development of England's most British colony

Reflecting the burgeoning interest of colonial historians in South Carolina and its role as the economic…]]>
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Toward the Meeting of the Waters https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602398/Toward-the-Meeting-of-the-Waters
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians

Toward the Meeting of the Wat…]]>
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South Carolina in the Modern Age https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602006/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…]]>
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The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3601941/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…]]>
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3603165/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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Pitchfork Ben Tillman https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602239/Pitchfork-Ben-Tillman
The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader

Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina…]]>
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Promiseland https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602114/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…]]>
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A World Turned Upside Down https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602079/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…]]>
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