University of South Carolina Press

An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, identity, and the meaning of freedomPrisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet--Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable...

A model in resort planning and developmentJust north of where the Savannah River flows into the Atlantic lies an idyllic stretch of beach, marsh, and forest known as Hilton Head Island, South...

A portrait of a dynamic African American community in the rural SouthPromiseland chronicles the intergenerational story of fifty African American families living in the rural community of Promised...

Thirteen treatises recall the history of slavery's defenders beginning in the colonial SouthIn Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled...

Reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contributions of ProtagorasProtagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of...

For topping French fries or cottage cheese, K rations or school lunches, ketchup has long been an American favorite. In Pure Ketchup, Andrew F. Smith chronicles American milestones in ketchup...

The innovative strategies, scathing attacks, and lasting impact that marked a sweeping critique of traditional Christian thoughtThe Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists illuminates the major...

Solves the mysteries surrounding the maligned masterpieceTender Is the Night, the novel F. Scott Fitzgerald worked longest and hardest on, has not achieved its proper recognition because the text is...

An investigation into the aesthetic and philosophical ends of McCarthy's southern novelsIn Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's...

Fresh perspectives on colonial and revolutionary America from leading scholars in the fieldDescribed as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the...

A compendium of keen insights into new approaches and methods for historical inquiryDescribed as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most...

An inviting survey of recent developments in military history from leading voices in the fieldDescribed as "the New York Review of Books for history,"Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the...

New approaches to understanding African history from major historians of the subject matterDescribed as "the New York Review of Books for history," Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the...

Original discussions on the public role of history and historians from a pantheon of notable expertsRecent Themes on Historians and the Public represents some of the best recent writing on the public...

A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American RevolutionRelieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held...

Promotes the importance of understanding spirituality and religious belief in health and human service careAlthough health and human service professionals traditionally receive extensive training in...

The rising tide of women clergy and the mounting pressure on the "stained-glass ceiling"Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership documents the movement of women into positions of leadership and...

A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist eraRethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist...

A collection of rhetorical case studies that fathom the construction and destruction of communitiesIn Rhetoric and Community, seventeen contributors explore an area of growing scholarly interest--how...

Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's...

A panoramic explanation of "civic tourism" and the shaping of a national identityAt the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores...

Electric discussions of the interplay between technological innovation and communicationRecognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this...

Intimate glimpses into the daily life of a South Carolina familyReprinted here for the first time in more than forty years is Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston,...

An essential collection of baseball fiction by the master of the formMore than any other writer in the twentieth century, Ring Lardner was identified with baseball. His years as a newspaper reporter...

A saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises, and, above all, failures and lost opportunitiesDuring the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in...

A heavily illustrated discussion of pilgrimage and veneration traveling from the Old World to the NewSaints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints...

An adventurous boyhood, a remarkable Southern community, and one jewel of a memoirClyde Bresee was just five years old in 1921 when his family moved from a tiny Pennsylvania farm to the Lawton...

The thoughts, triumphs, travails, and, at times, despicable actions of a leading antebellum politicianA remarkably candid set of diaries, Secret and Sacred brings to light the intimate journal...

"A spellbinding study in revolution from the top down."--New York Times Book ReviewMost Americans know that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was one of the events that sparked the Civil War, but...

A revised and expanded edition of poems by the renowned nineteenth-century Charleston writer and historian.This twentieth anniversary edition of the Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms, edited...