University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books
The Magnificent Mays
A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...