University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books
Living a Big War in a Small Place
Spartanburg, South Carolina, during the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Most of what we know about how the Civil War affected life in the Confederacy is related to cities, troop movements, battles, and prominent political, economic, or military leaders. Far less is known about the people who lived in small Southern towns remote from marching armies or battles. Philip...
Three Peoples, One King
Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies were...
Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement
Committed to Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence of the HIV-AIDS pandemic to the realization of marriage equality in the state thirty years later. Each of the...
This Torrent of Indians
War on the Southern Frontier, 1715-1728
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The southern frontier could be a cruel and unforgiving place during the early eighteenth century. The British colony of South Carolina was in proximity and traded with several Native American groups. The economic and military relationships between the colonialists and natives were always filled with...
Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947
From the Ruins of War to the Rise of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Charleston is one of the most intriguing of American cities, a unique combination of quaint streets, historic architecture, picturesque gardens, and age-old tradition, embroidered with a vivid cultural, literary, and social history. It is a city of contrasts and controversy as well. To trace a documentary...
Varieties of Southern Religious History
Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Comprising essays written by former students of Donald G. Mathews, a distinguished historian of religion in the South, Varieties of Southern Religious History offers rich insight into the social and cultural history of the United States. Fifteen essays, edited by Regina D. Sullivan and Monte Harrell...
The Last Sister
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–61), The Last Sister, by Courtney McKinney-Whitaker, traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal their...
The Cow-Hunter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Vividly set in the rich pluralistic culture and primeval landscape of colonial South Carolina, this historical novel brings to life, and back into our memory, the birth of free-range cattle herding that would later come to be associated exclusively with the American West. Drawing on his accomplished...
Captain James Carlin
Anglo-American Blockade Runner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833–1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy’s blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin ventures...
by Catherine Seltzer, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Pat Conroy’s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and it has staked out a more complex geography as well,...
by Nancy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This collection of tales was originally published as An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurences in the Old North State. To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about the Carolina coastal areas. The mountains, Piedmont, eastern Carolina, and the Outer Banks...
Baroness of Hobcaw
The Life of Belle W. Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Belle W. Baruch (1899–1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle—abilities that distanced her from other debutantes of 1917. Unapologetic for her athleticism and interests in traditionally masculine pursuits, Baruch towered above male and...
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
Forty Wild Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Recognized today as one of America’s best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden has become one of Columbia, South Carolina’s most popular tourist destinations and one of the most visited zoos in the southeastern United States. Riverbanks celebrates its fortieth anniversary on April 25, 2014. Over the...
Taking Root
The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
William Summer founded the renowned Pomaria Nursery, which thrived from the 1840s to the 1870s in central South Carolina and became the center of a bustling town that today bears its name. The nursery grew into one of the most important American nurseries of the antebellum period, offering wide varieties...