University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books
The Gold Seekers
Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and the legends that have grown up around it. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied...
Becoming Southern Writers
Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner’s fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the contributors...
The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear
The Life and Works of Harry Hervey
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In The Damned Don’t Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award–winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries, and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey...
The H. L. Hunley Submarine
History and Mystery from the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The story of the H. L. Hunley submarine is about American ingenuity and real people who were inventive, loyal, brave, resilient, persistent, and adventurous. The Hunley, built by the Confederate Army during the Civil War, was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship during wartime. After that historic...
More Than a Likeness
The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte is the first comprehensive book on the life and work of one of today’s most renowned watercolorists. From Whyte’s earliest paintings in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania, to the riveting portraits of her southern neighbors, historian Martha R. Severens...
Country Women Cope with Hard Times
A Collection of Oral Histories
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor...
Hard Lines
Rough South Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright’s anthology Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and...
John Laurens and the American Revolution
With a New Preface by the Author
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Winning a reputation for reckless bravery in a succession of major battles and sieges, John Laurens distinguished himself as one of the most zealous, self-sacrificing participants in the American Revolution. A native of South Carolina and son of Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress,...
by Marie S. Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women—from the pre– to the post–Civil War South—within a society that placed high value on women’s marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate...
Green Revolver
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
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 outpouring of poems, pent up during a fourteen-year hiatus from the craft during which Evans worked...
My Exaggerated Life
Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded...
Nature's Return
An Environmental History of Congaree National Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation’s largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands,...
Painting the Southern Coast
The Art of West Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of West Fraser, one of the nation's most respected painters of representational art. A mastery of his medium and the scope of work ensure his place in southern art history. A true son of the lowcountry, Fraser...
The Cigar Factory
A Novel of Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
“The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront,” begins Michele Moore’s entrancing debut novel, harkening back to an era when the legendary fishermen of Charleston’s Mosquito Fleet rowed miles offshore for their daily catch. With evocative dialect and remarkable prose, The Cigar...