University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books
South Carolina State University
A Black Land-Grant College in Jim Crow America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Since its founding in 1896, South Carolina State University has provided vocational, undergraduate, and graduate education for generations of African Americans. Now the state’s flagship historically black university, it achieved this recognition after decades of struggling against poverty, inadequate...
A View from the South
The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders is the first comprehensive examination of the life and art of one of America’s premier printmakers. In this celebration of an enduring and widely acclaimed career as an artist, Thomas Dewey II chronicles Saunders’s work not only as a printmaker,...
A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina
William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
New Englander William Allen (1830–1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served...
Archaeology in South Carolina
Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Adam King’s Archaeology in South Carolina contains an overview of the fascinating archaeological research currently ongoing in the Palmetto state featuring essays by twenty scholars studying South Carolina’s past through archaeological research. The scholarly contributions are enhanced by more...
by Walter Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of the Palmetto State's premier historian, Walter Edgar, who had not yet begun the two landmark volumes—South...
On the Horseshoe
A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina is one of the nation’s oldest public colleges. Located in the heart of downtown Columbia and bound by Sumter, Pendleton, Bull, and Greene Streets, this historic landscape, known today as the Horseshoe, has both endured and...
Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina
Volume 1: Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning the decades from 1930 to 1980 with oral history interviews of key activists and leaders of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. Editor Marvin Ira Lare introduces more than one hundred civil rights leaders...
Writing South Carolina
Selections from the Fourth Annual High School Writing Contest
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Founded in 2013 by Steven Lynn, dean of the South Carolina Honors College, this annual writing contest was designed to engage the state's future leaders and thinkers. Each year the Honors College invited South Carolina high school juniors and seniors to respond to the question "How can we make South...
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival against opposition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for generations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional...
Citizen-Scholar
Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Carolina’s preeminent historian and founding director of the University of South Carolina (USC) Institute for Southern Studies. In the opening overview of Edgar’s impressive academic career, editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.,...
Writing South Carolina, Volume 3
Selections from the Third Annual High School Writing Contest
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
“How can we make South Carolina better? Normally this question is reserved for lawmakers and voters, but Writing South Carolina, volume 3, gives voice to fifty high school juniors and seniors from across the Palmetto State who have offered suggestions. The University of South Carolina Honors College...
by Tommy Charles
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
For years Tommy Charles scoured South Carolina's upcountry for examples of ancient rock art carvings and paintings, efforts conducted on behalf of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA). As SCIAA's collections coordinator, Charles amassed considerable field experience...
by Tom Poland
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
From the Appalachians to the Atlantic, South Carolina’s awe-inspiring beauty is revealed in this visually stirring and heart-warming tribute to one of America’s favorite vacation destinations. Rich with more than 250 stunning photographs, this second volume of Reflections of South Carolina uncovers...