University of South Carolina Press

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...

A graphic recreation of the battle made famous by the movie GloryKnown for sharply affecting the Civil War's outcome, the Charleston campaign of 1863 included the Battle for Battery Wagner, which...

An intimate portrait of the first "first family" from the vantage of Washington's adopted daughterEleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852) was in many ways the quintessential southern lady, but as...

A new expanded compendium of spine-tingling tales of Western haunts and horrorsOnce deemed the "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living, celebrated storyteller and ghost hunter Nancy...

A critical reevaluation of the words of a classical thinkerOf the ancient Greek Sophists, Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-ca. 376 b.c.e.) has endured more than his share of insistent detractors...

Assesses the international community's management of Antarctica as a global commonsAntarctica, the last great wilderness on earth, is a continent of extremes. It is the coldest, highest, driest,...

In this new collection of poetry, Sidney Wade includes poems written in many forms that touch on a variety of subjects, all informed by a singular voice and an intensely vibrant language. The volume...

Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous...

The first comprehensive history of the Lower Chickasaws in the Savannah River ValleyEdward J. Cashin, the preeminent historian of colonial Georgia history, offers an account of the Lower Chickasaws,...

Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American communityIn his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a...

A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil WarA native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but--through acts of remarkable courage and...

The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak's shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having "the weight and authority of a sociological investigation." This Southern Classics...

Women rabbis relfect on their changing role in the professionIn this anthology by and about Jewish women, fifteen British rabbis discuss the changing role of Jewish clergywomen in the six decades...

A collection of letters by two brothers on opposite sides of the Civil WarAlexander and James Campbell emigrated from Scotland to the United States as teenagers in the 1850s and settled in vastly...

Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic,...

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...

Poetic conversations with a God whose omnipotence brings both peace and uncertaintyD?Lana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us,...

The definitive study of the Huguenot influence in South CarolinaFirst published in 1928, The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina is the authoritative work on the Huguenot presence in one of the most...

An illuminating conversation between poet and criticSignificantly deepening our understanding of two key figures from the modernist period, The Humane Particulars collects the letters between William...

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region...

2010 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOut of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers...

Insights into the positive and negative portrayals of Jewish life in the Lukan texts.In Images of Judaism in Luke-Acts, Joseph B. Tyson addresses the ways in which Jewish people and religious customs...

In 1966, as a seminarian at the Virginia Theological Seminary, William H. Barnwell undertook a summer's missionary work at St. John's Episcopal Mission Center in his native city of Charleston, South...

The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist from Orangeburg, South Carolina Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights...

Assesses current poststructural and postmodern theories and defends international relations as a disciplinePromising to stimulate discussion among both those who celebrate the arrival of the "Third...

An inside look at the Confederacy's military science and technologyLoaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime...

A biography of one of South Carolina's leading antebellum lawyers and major political thinkersIn the three decades before the Civil War, James Louis Petigru became the dean of the South Carolina bar...

In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's mission and how he became a significant historical...

A balanced and provocative exploration of how the relationship of the Fourth Gospel to the Synoptics has been perceived in ancient and modern timesJohn's relationship to the other canonical Gospels...

The standard biography of the man who pioneered the modern submarineA classic of maritime history updated with new information, John P. Holland, 1841-1914 is the sole full-length biography of the man...