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The story of a Yankee reformer and her life in Beaufort County, South CarolinaBorn into a Massachusetts abolitionist family, Abbie Holmes Christensen (1852-1938) epitomized the Yankee reformer spirit...

First published in 2002 by the South Carolina Historical Society, Dark Hours was the second of two landmark Civil War research projects carried out by Randolph W. Kirkland, Jr. The companion volume...

A thoughtful examination of one the Old Testament's central human figuresMarti J. Steussy provides a critical approach to the man who receives more attention from the Old Testament's writers than any...

At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the first five school segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. The resulting...

A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the CaribbeanDead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and murder in...

A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war William S. Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had been killed...

An innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an "ontology of becoming"In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of...

In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international...

John S. Jackman's forthright depiction of life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee's 9th Kentucky Brigade is the longest, most informative, and most unvarnished account available of service in the...

Division and Discord offers a comprehensive appraisal of the Supreme Court during the fractious period that bridged the court-packing fight of the Hughes years and the rights explosion of the Warren...

A look at public and private debate over the formation of the "world's best" medical care systemJonathan Engel traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that...

One population of a truly fascinating speciesThe Dolphins of Hilton Head introduces readers to the unique population of bottlenose dolphins that inhabits the warm water and brackish salt marshes of...

Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained...

Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted...

Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled presentSelected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country before You Are Born...

A valuable survey of Jewish and Christian textual references to an understudied Old Testament figureCredited with predicting the flood and foretelling a second punishment but mentioned only briefly...

A widely acclaimed appraisal of Welty's famed "sense of place"In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty's writing arises, Jan Nordby Gretlund argues for the importance of...

A celebration of the legacy of the "first lady of American letters" from an impressive cast of writers, scholars, and friends of the authorOn the occasion of Eudora Welty's ninetieth birthday in...

Eutaw is the sequel to The Forayers, and the penultimate romance in Simms's Revolutionary War saga. It completes the story of the British withdrawal from their outpost at Ninety-Six, including the...

Selected by Rigoberto Gonzales as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Excavations: A City Cycle is the first collection of poetry from Jennifer R. Pournelle. Set in different cities...

A groundbreaking investigation into the migration of martial arts techniques across continents and centuriesThe presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in...

Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterizations of...

A perennially intriguing writer placed in the context of her troubled times and our ownFlannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together essays by a number of distinguished O'Connor scholars, four...

2001 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA compelling study of O'Connor's fiction as illuminated by the teaching of the desert monastics."Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote...

Rare recollections of combat and camaraderie from the Army of the PotomacThomas W. Hyde, a native of Maine who rose rapidly through the Union ranks and eventually received the Medal of Honor for his...

The classic tale of battle, roguery, and capture from the Army of Northern VirginiaFrom his looting of farmhouses during the Gettysburg campaign and robbing of fallen Union soldiers as opportunity...

From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction gathers into a single volume twenty-three interviews with the British novelist and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by some of the last...

An exploration of the University of South Carolina's trailblazing approach to the first-year experienceAs an innovative educational experiment, University 101 was designed to support students'...

Marisa de los Santos often situates her poems in the rich, vividly evoked landscapes of Virginia and Texas as well as her father's homeland, the Philippines, but their true territory is the body...

Seasoned advice on toiling in the soil for Palmetto State plantersGardening Notes for South Carolina offers is a handbook for beginners and intermediate gardeners and includes expert guidance on...