University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books

Reading William Gilmore Simms

Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon

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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over...

Heaven Is a Beautiful Place

A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast

by Genevieve C. Peterkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve “Sister” Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions, and youthful rambles through the lowcountry. She shared her bedroom with a famous ghost and an impatient...
by Ellen Malphrus
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

Bailey Martin is in perpetual motion—a child of the South Carolina lowcountry tides, being pulled to and from a reckoning with destiny. A marine biologist by training and an artist by dedication and talent, Bailey is a woman of contradictions, at once a free-spirited adventurer giving deeply of...

Charleston Belles Abroad

The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord

by Candace Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019

In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, South Carolina, in the years leading up to the Civil War. Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries, including the library...

Three Wild Pigs

A Carolina Folktale

by Lisa Anne Cullen, Kim Shealy Jeffcoat
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018

Three Wild Pigs: A Carolina Folktale, written and illustrated by Lisa Anne Cullen, is an adaptation of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps’s The Story of the Three Little Pigs. Set on Bird Island along the Carolina Coast, this creative retelling of the timeless tale features three generations of a...

Scenic Impressions

Southern Interpretations from The Johnson Collection

by Estill Curtis Pennington, Martha R. Severens
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon and Giverny emphasized the subtle textures of nature through warm color and broken brush stroke. Artists’...

Working South

Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

by Mary Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator...

Days of Destruction

Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In Days of Destruction, editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes chronicle the events of the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, through a collection of letters written by Augustine Thomas Smythe, a well-educated young man from a prominent Charleston family. The vivid, eloquent letters he wrote to...

The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859

The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement

by Brian Gabrial
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016

Slavery remains one of the United States’ most troubling failings and its complexities have shaped American ideas about race, economics, politics, and the press since the first days of settlement. Brian Gabrial’s The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859 examines those intersections at times...

Creating and Contesting Carolina

Proprietary Era Histories

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

The essays in Creating and Contesting Carolina shed new light on how the various peoples of the Carolinas responded to the tumultuous changes shaping the geographic space that the British called Carolina during the Proprietary period (1663–1719). In doing so, the essays focus attention on some of...

Georgialina

A Southland as We Knew It

by Tom Poland
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

Veteran journalist and southern storyteller Tom Poland has been writing about the disappearing rural South for nearly four decades. With a companionable appreciation for nostalgia, preservation, humor, and wonder, Georgialina: A Southland as We Knew It brings to life once more the fading and often-forgotten...

True Places

A Lowcountry Preacher, His Church, and His People

by Stanley F. Lanzano
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

True Places is an emotionally charged photographic documentary of the lives of evangelical pastor Floyd Knowlin and his close-knit African American congregations who live, work, and worship in a rural stretch of coastal South Carolina. For more than a decade photographer Stanley F. Lanzano has immersed...
by Susan Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary...

First, You Explore

The Story of the Young Charles Townes

by Rachel Haynie
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

"Do exploration. Do things that are new and different.” This is the philosophy that Charles H. Townes has lived by since he was a young boy growing up on a small farm in Greenville, South Carolina. While tending to chores, exploring the outdoors, and tinkering with broken tools and equipment,...
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