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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801539/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700Relieve Us of This Burthen
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801498/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801711/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,…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700Broke by the War
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801456/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801857/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3802150/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, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700City of the Silent
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801421/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801633/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700Wil Lou Gray
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801740/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…]]>
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:08:19 -0700The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill
https://uscpress.com/book-post/3801799/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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