University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books

The Magnificent Mays

A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays

by John Herbert Roper Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894–1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime...

State of the Heart

South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

In State of the Heart, Aïda Rogers has crafted an artful love letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally and regionally recognized writers who’ve written short essays on the South Carolina places that they cherish. This anthology provides a multifaceted historical and personal...

The South at Work

Observations from 1904

by William Garrott Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region’s political, economic, and social conditions. Using the pen name “Stanton,” Brown published twenty epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these...

The Carolina Backcountry Venture

Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740-1810

by Kenneth E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017

The Carolina Backcountry Venture is a historical, geographical, and archaeological investigation of the development of Camden, South Carolina, and the Wateree River Valley during the second half of the eighteenth century. The result of extensive field and archival work by author Kenneth E. Lewis,...

Flat Rock of the Old Time

Letters from the Mountains to the Lowcountry, 1837-1939

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

The intoxicating “champagne air” of Flat Rock, North Carolina, captivated residents of lowcountry South Carolina in the nineteenth century because it offered them respite from the sickly, semitropical coastal climate. In Flat Rock of the Old Time, editor Robert B. Cuthbert has mined the collections...

Carolina Christmas

Archibald Rutledge's Enduring Holiday Stories

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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

Carolina Christmas collects for the first time holiday stories of Archibald Rutledge (1883–1973), one of the most prolific outdoor and nature writers of the twentieth century and the first poet laureate of South Carolina. Some of Rutledge's finest writing revolves around his vivid memories of hunt,...

Recovering the Piedmont Past, Volume 2

Bridging the Centuries in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1877-1941

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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History, Timothy P. Grady joins with Andrew H. Myers to edit this second anthology of Recovering the Piedmont Past, volume 2, to uncover the microhistory of this northwest region of the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

Asylum Doctor

James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra

by Charles S. Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

During the early twentieth century thousands of Americans died of pellagra before the cause—vitamin B3 deficiency—was identified. Credit for ending the scourge is usually given to Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U.S. Public Health Service, who proved the case for dietary deficiency during 1914−1915...

The Travelers' Charleston

Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

The Travelers' Charleston is an innovative collection of firsthand narratives that document the history of the South Carolina lowcountry region, specifically that of Charleston, from 1666 until the start of the Civil War. Jennie Holton Fant has compiled and edited a rich and comprehensive history...
by John Andrew Rice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

John Andrew Rice’s autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the...

Lowcountry Time and Tide

The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom

by James H. Tuten
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012

In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H. Tuten offers a provocative new vision of the forces—agricultural, environmental, economic, cultural, and climatic—stacked against planters, laborers, and millers struggling to perpetuate their...

Blood and Bone

Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town

by Jack Shuler
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith—were killed,...
by Archibald Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Unseen by readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's story "Claws" is a fast-paced adventure tale of a young boy, Paul, lost in the foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the domain of the mighty bobcat Claws, which is deftly evading hounds and hunters alike. When Paul and Claws encounter...

Martyr of the American Revolution

The Execution of Isaac Hayne, South Carolinian

by C. L. Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017

In 1781 South Carolina patriot militiamen played an integral role in helping the Continental army reclaim their state from its British conquerors. Martyr of the American Revolution is the only book-length treatment that examines the events that set an American militia colonel on a disastrous collision...
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