Pirates and Devils, edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether and David W. Newton, presents two of the most significant unfinished works by William Gilmore Simms, a prominent public intellectual of the antebel
Kibler, a scholar and teacher, is the present owner of the subject of this work a plantation in Newberry County, South Carolina. He pieces together the story of the Hardy family, who purchased the lan
"Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a "typical American" writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of
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.
Author Larry E. Ivers presents a comprehensive examination of the conflict between South Carolinians and the Yamasee Indians in 1715. He has organized the main body of his text in seventeen chronologi
Presents a collection of the author's poetry that was originally published in 1846, along with biographical information about the author and a critical introduction of the work.
Migliazzo (history, Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington) focuses on a particular colonial settlement seeking to understand such questions as how an ethnically and linguistically diverse group of st
Pratt (law, U. of Notre Dame) argues that the years that White served as Chief Justice marked a period in which the court moved from traditional textual interpretations towards an acceptance of the as
First published in 1907, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell presents the biography and collected correspondence of the nephew of poet and abolitionist leader James Russell Lowell. The volume s
Berger (sociology), Evan A. Leach (management), and Leigh S. Shaffer (sociology, all West Chester U., Pennsylvania) analyze the results of the 1993-95 census to provide scholars data to inform their r
In this critical study of Adrienne Kennedy, Philip C. Kolin explores the interrelationship of life and work of one of the most respected African American playwrights. For more than four decades Kenned
Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., eminent field biologist and lowcountry South Carolina native, has brought all of his skills as a botanist, historian, photographer, and conservationist to bear in a multid
"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket
In this book, author Jonathan Buehl presents readers with a study of scientific argumentation, arguing that rhetorical theory, when supported correctly, can provide the analytical tools for understand
The library of the University of South Carolina contains a collection of historical photographs of South Carolina in digital format. The editors of this book recruited poets and fiction writers, some
