California-based historian Caughey (1902-95) wrote extensively on American and Native American history. Here he focuses attention on Indian leader Alexander McGillivray (1750-93), born and reared in t
Shortly before he was executed for mutiny and murder in 1831, the pirate Charles Gibbs recounted his criminal life at sea in a series of 'confessions.' Popular reading among 19th-century audiences, su
First published in 1929, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's history of slavery in the Old South was a carefully researched account that focused on social and economic aspects. While it offered important insigh
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women--from the pre- to the post-Civil War South--within a society that placed high
In August 1960 four young men who never planned to have show business careers launched a revue in Edinburgh comprising skits and parodies, songs and monologues, on subjects such as nuclear holocaust,
Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their ostensibly sha
The American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina’s victorious Patriots of
"Capturing with fidelity the texture of life for enslaved South Carolinians has challenged even the most thoughtful students and scholars of slavery. That challenge has now been lessened with the publ
When the collection was first published, in 1990 by University of Georgia Press, Simms (1806-70) was not a widely known poet, and many of the poems included were published under his name for the first
Here, in an extended series of interviews and essays, leading historians argue with each other and themselves about how they do history and why. Contributors comment on the uses of history, the role o
Smith (emeritus New Testament, Duke U.) has written extensively on the Gospel of John, and here assembles 16 of his essays published after the appearance of his Johannine Christianity in 1984, most du
This volulme is part of a multivolume series collecting essays, forum discussions, and interviews from Historically Speaking, which is the Historical Society journal that aims to make the work of prom
DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina P
Pinsker (emeritus American literature and creative writing, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania) explores the distinctive themes and features of American author Heller's (1923-99) whole body o
Nakadate (English, Iowa State University) surveys ongoing themes in the work of author Jane Smiley. The study is organized around close readings of Smiley's major fiction, but also looks at some of he
Crick (communication studies, Louisiana State U.) argues that US philosopher Dewey's (1859-1952) mature philosophy finds the constitution of civilization to be intrinsically an accomplishment of art.
A historian who retired from teaching in 1993, Moore focuses his research on the Old South, on agriculture generally there, and more particularly on cotton. Here he narrows the geographical scope to h
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
