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In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate C?t? Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as...

A remarkable account of life on the Charleston frontOn July 10, 1863, Confederate Major Edward Manigault began a diary which is today one of the most unusual documents to survive the Civil War...

Overwhelming evidence against the historical view of slavery as a benevolent "peculiar institution"Posting what he called "a most deadly array of facts," Frederic Bancroft exploded deeply entrenched...

Slavery in Mississippi, first published in 1933, is a deeply researched and tightly argued social and economic study of slave life in Mississippi by Charles S. Sydnor (1898-1954). Inspired by Ulrich...

The germinal study of agriculture's impact on southern history from colonial through antebellum timesRecognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Avery...

The poignant tale of Johnny Reb and Billy YankSoldiers Blue and Gray tells the story of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank-soldiers who recorded their experiences and emotions in the largest outpouring of...

The paradox of celebrating the wealth, wisdom, and power of SolomonIn this study of Solomon and his place in the larger consciousness of Israel, Walter Brueggemann considers what Old Testament...

The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updatedSince its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its...

Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious families of planters, merchants, and politicos. Examining...

An introduction to the rhetorical tradition of sophistical dialectics in antiquityIn Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos offers a new conceptualization of sophistry, explaining...

The authoritative source for the Palmetto State's dramatic historyIn this comprehensive history of South Carolina, Walter Edgar presents a sweeping chronicle of a state with an illustrious, sometimes...

The landmark political study of South Carolina's secession and governance during the Civil WarFirst published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, South Carolina Goes to War,...

The history of African Americans in South Carolina after Reconstruction and before Jim CrowFirst published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased...

Woman plans, God laughs... Woman Persists. Introducing a new Jewish voice from the South that tells us with humor, panache, and raw frankness her irresistible story of what it means to become an...

Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbsSouthern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally...

The telling words of a southern literary woman and a partisan of the ConfederacyAugusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) was one of nineteenth-century America's most popular novelists and outspoken...

A firsthand account of the way one Southern Jewish woman served the Confederate causePhoebe Yates Pember's A Southern Woman's Story is the inaugural volume in the University of South Carolina Press's...

A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studiesSpeaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and...

An examination of satirical texts from the first major African American literary movementSpoofing the Modern is the first book devoted solely to studying the role satire played in the movement known...

A harrowing tale of how faith and friendship can surmount hate and violenceAfter a vicious hate crime destroyed St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, in 1984, two courageous women...

A chronicle of postwar resistance in the Palmetto StateState of Rebellion recounts the volatile course of Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest, and most dynamic federal...

Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State during the civil rights eraTravis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's...

An insightful guidebook to some of the best examples of modern Southern fiction, as selected by an international group of criticsIn Still in Print, eighteen southern novels published since 1997 fall...

A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of...

Stories and Tales is Volume V of the University of South Carolina's Centennial Edition of the writings of William Gilmore Simms. This volume contains fifteen stories and tales, chronologically...

A poignant personal narrative about the history of Black education in South CarolinaThe battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the...

How Hinduism has been studied and what scholars have yet to accomplishIn The Study of Hinduism, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual...

Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts,...

An examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic societySufi Heirs of the Prophet explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by...

A fascinating insider's account of Sufi life in contemporary EgyptFor centuries Sufism--Islamic mysticism--held a major place in Islamic spirituality, intellectual life, and popular religion. While...