University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books
South Carolina's Turkish People
A History and Ethnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Despite its reputation as a melting pot of ethnicities and races, the United States has a well-documented history of immigrants who have struggled through isolation, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and assimilation. South Carolina is home to one such group—known historically and derisively...
The Best Gun in the World
George Woodward Morse and the South Carolina State Military Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A year after seceding from the Union, South Carolina and the Confederate States government faced the daunting challenge of equipping soldiers with weapons, ammunition, and other military implements during the American Civil War. In The Best Gun in the World, Robert S. Seigler explains how South Carolina...
South Carolina Ghosts
From the Coast to the Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
The stories in this book are based upon actual events. During the course of her research into some of South Carolina's classic tales, Nancy Roberts heard accounts of happenings in the recent past and even the present day. They're all here: from the famous Gray Man of Pawleys Island who warns of coming...
Blessed Experiences
Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own...
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War
Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The letters provide valuable firsthand accounts of evolving attitudes...
Recovering the Piedmont Past
Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The history of South Carolina’s lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry—the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line—has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention. The essays in this collection provide a window...
Deadly Censorship
Murder, Honor, and Freedom of the Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina’s most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales’s stinging editorials for his loss of the 1902 gubernatorial race, Tillman shot Gonzales to avenge the defeat...
Conversations with the Conroys
Interviews with Pat Conroy and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America’s most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy’s writings have been rooted in autobiography more often than not,...
Patroons and Periaguas
Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the rivers and coastline near the bourgeoning colonial port city of Charleston, South Carolina. Colonial...
by Roy Talbert Jr., Meggan A. Farish
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Antipedo Baptists of Georgetown is the history of the First Baptist Church of Georgetown, South Carolina, as well as the history of Baptists in the colony and state. Roy Talbert, Jr., and Meggan A. Farish detail Georgetown Baptists’ long and tumultuous history, which began with the migration...
State of the Heart
South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
For many, South Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart, thirty-eight nationally and regionally known writers share their personal stories about...
Rice to Ruin
The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation....
Dawn of Desegregation
J. A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the first five school segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. The resulting collective 1954 landmark decision, known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, struck down legalized...
My Tour through the Asylum
A Southern Integrationist's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Immortalized in the writings of his most famous student, best-selling author Pat Conroy, veteran education administrator William E. Dufford has led an inspirational life as a stalwart champion for social justice and equal access for all to the empowerment of a good public education. A quintessential...