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During William Gilmore Simms’s life (1806–1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse.

A product of the industrialized New South, Eugene Healan Thomason (1895–1972) made the obligatory pilgrimage to New York to advance his art education and launch his career.

Vividly set in the rich pluralistic culture and primeval landscape of colonial South Carolina, this historical novel brings to life, and back into our memory, the birth of free-range cattle herding

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

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment.

The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs.

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These are the opening pages of A Southern Girl, John Warley's novel of international adoption and of families lost, then found anew through revelations, courage and the perseverance of a love

Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson’s three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier.

Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of t

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century.

In a weaving together of contradictory realms' past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism — Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the

The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well.

"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957.

Fear and brutality grip Columbia, South Carolina, in the harsh winter of 1865 as General William Tecumseh Sherman continues his fiery march to the sea and advances on the capital city where secessi