uscpress.com - South Carolina History & Culture https://uscpress.com/ Carnival of Blood https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208949/Carnival-of-Blood
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…]]>
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Myrtle Beach https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208993/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…]]>
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South Carolina and the New Deal https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208841/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,…]]>
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Coming Through https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209030/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…]]>
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South Carolina in the Modern Age https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208639/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/4208575/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/4209811/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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A Portion of the People https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208867/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…]]>
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Promiseland https://uscpress.com/book-post/4208747/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/4208712/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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