University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books
by Marion B. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B. Lucas tackles one of the most debated questions about the Civil War: Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Before the fires had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze,...
Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways
Archibald Rutledge's Tales of Upland Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more than fifty books of poetry and prose, held the...
by Julia Koets
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it...
Familiar Ground
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the return of Jacob Bechner to rural Sweetwater, Tennessee, summoned by Callie, a dying woman nearly 100 years old. Jacob aims to confront a moment of violence from forty years in his past that cost him the life of his brother...
A Grand Tour of Gardens
Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions...
Art and Craft
Thirty Years on the Literary Beat
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson’s three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews...
You Can't Padlock an Idea
Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought...
The Life of the World to Come
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In a weaving together of contradictory realms—past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism—Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the 1970s as protagonist George Dolce faces major upheaval in The Life of the World to Come. George aspires...
by Ben McC. Moïse
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Ben McC. Moïse served with distinction as a South Carolina game warden for nearly a quarter century, patrolling the coastal woods and waters of the Palmetto State. In this colorful career-spanning memoir, the cigar-chomping, ticket-writing scourge of lowcountry fish-and-game-law violators chronicles...
Fate Moreland's Widow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals sightseeing in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker--witness to and reluctant participant in the aftermath of this long-forgotten...
Famous all over Town
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy’s unexplored terrain with a comically candid multigenerational account...
Working on the Dock of the Bay
Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers—black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant—in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the...
Down Bohicket Road
An Artist's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Artist Mary Whyte’s Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors—depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories. In 1991, following Whyte’s recovery from a year of treatment for cancer, she and her husband moved to a small sea island...
Savannah in the New South
From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city’s evolution from the pivotal period immediately after the Civil War to the present. When the war ended, Savannah was nearly bankrupt; today it is a thriving port city and tourist...