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A four-volume, chronologically arranged documentary work that spans the long and productive career of the Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the history of intellectual and religious life in the mid-twentieth-century United States.

The South Carolina upcountry was truly the frontier in the mid-eighteenth century, and it remained so until after the Cherokee War. This title presents history of Newberry County that chronicles the developments in the district from its earliest settlement through the onset of the Civil War.

Alexander and James Campbell emigrated from Scotland to the United States as teenagers in the 1850s and settled in vastly different regions of the country - Alexander in New York City and James in Charleston, South Carolina. This collection tells their story through nearly eighty wartime letters.

Considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to the controversial issues of euthanasia. This study investigates how the practice of rhetoric becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of individuals and communities.

Offers a look into the complex inner workings of Confederate army staff operations. This book examines how the staff officers of Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and its subordinate corps, divisions, and brigades were selected, trained, and organized and explores what staff officers did, how they did it, and how effective they were.

A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. This biography traces the triumphs and setbacks of this celebrated US congressman.

A collection of articles that explores the relationship of Africa to world history. It maps the state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative.

Once deemed the "e;custodian of the twilight zone"e; by Southern Living, celebrated storyteller and ghost hunter Nancy Roberts returns to familiar subject matter in this newly expanded edition of her Ghosts of the Wild West, a finalist for the Spur Award of the Western Writers of America in its original edition.In these seventeen ghostly tales-including five new stories-Roberts expertly guides readers through eerie encounters and harrowing hauntings across Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and the Dakotas. Along the way her accounts intersect with the lives (and afterlives) of legendary figures such as Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday. Roberts also justifies the fascination among ghost hunters, folklorists, and interested tourists with notoriously haunted locales such as Deadwood, Tombstone, and Abilene through her tales of paranormal legends linked to these gunslinger towns synonymous with violence and vice in Western lore. But not all of these encounters feature frightening specters or wandering souls. Roberts also details episodes of animal spirits, protective presences, and supernatural healings.Forever destined to be associated with adventure, romance, and risk taking, the Wild West of yore still haunts the American imagination. Roberts reminds us here that our imaginations aren't the only places where restless ghosts still roam.

Presents a portrait of life in a Southern Piedmont mill village after the Great Depression. This work describes the cotton mill workers of York as sympathetic, three-dimensional human beings, something a bit more than even their insular white neighbors in the town of York would have classified them as. It also includes photographs of this period.

With novels, short story collections, and works of criticism and history to his credit, Louis Auchincloss is definition of prolific. This title traces him from boarding school to his early literary forays at Yale, from law school to naval service in World War II, and then to Wall Street, chronicling his success in both legal and literary careers.

Provides an account of a bomb factory's impact on small town life in South Carolina. This title recounts the displacement of the residents of Ellenton, South Carolina, in the early 1950s to make way for the Savannah River Plant, a critical cold-war nuclear weapons facility.

Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and solace while navigating from a traumatic loss in the past to a present fraught with violence and self-destruction. The volume chronicles his attempt to glean some measure of forgiveness through acceptance of his own responsibly for his circumstances. The reader is called on to witness family stories without happy endings, landscapes on the verge of collapse, and prophetic visions of horrors yet to come. From these haunting visions, the only viable salvation is rooted in hope that, out of the ruins, there remains the possibility of a fresh beginning.

Presents the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island. This book tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation.

In his germinal 1791 account ""Travels"", William Bartram recorded the natural world he saw around him but, rather incredibly, omitted any reference to events of the American Revolution. This work places Bartram in the context of his times and explains his conspicuous avoidance of people, places, and events embroiled in revolutionary fervor.

Recognized since its publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Craven's study of soil depletion in Virginia and Maryland links elements of the author's frontier thesis, causal aspects of the expansion of slavery, and the economics of staple-crop production.

A reconstruction of a series of sensational murders in the 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. With the assistance of descendants of the two families involved, it probes a longstanding feud to uncover a story of misplaced revenge, social resentment and violence.

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss, relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world, where birds are "e;yeses quickening the air"e; and the sky can "e;lap you up, and up."e; In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection, contraries, and-most of all-love.

A memoir of the ambitious life and controversial political career of Louisiana governor Henry Clay Warmoth (1842-1931). It provides an account of the political and social machinations of Civil War America and the war's aftermath in one of the most volatile states of the defeated Confederacy.

Traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites, from the fourth century to the twentieth, and, from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This inter-disciplinary collection charts the changing images and meanings of holy people as their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New.

A tale that proves friendship, reconciliation, spiritual strength, and enduring hope can transcend racial hatred. This book chronicles how the fearless duo of Ammie Murray, a white union leader, and her African American friend Barbara Simmons risked their lives to organize the rebuilding of St John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina.

Drawing influence from ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""A Christmas Carol"", the author centers his plot on the pride of a Huguenot family, the prejudice of an English family, and the plight of star-crossed lovers, to win the blessings of both feuding houses amid a festive season. This edition includes an introduction by Simms historian David Aiken.

Zachary M. Jack has assembled writers on the present rural experience to provide 21st-century insights about life lived close to the land; which show the US at the same crossroad as it has since its founding: the intersection of Thomas Jefferson's agrarian republic and Alexander Hamilton's capitalistic democracy.

First published in 1968, this is an investigation of the way in which South Carolinians redefined their state in the wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

John Casler's actions during the Civil War made him as much a rogue as a Rebel. His postwar narrative recalls in vivid detail, the realities of warfare for the private soldier. This edition features an introduction by Robert K Krick chronicling Casler's origins and his career after the war as a writer and organizer of Confederate veterans groups.

Offering a survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V S Naipaul, this book introduces the readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist. It assesses each of Naipaul's major publications in light of his stated intentions, and traces the development of his writing style over a forty-year career.

Rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild and reform South Carolina after the Civil War. The volume explores the role of African Americans in government and law during Reconstruction in the Palmetto State.

In this fourth edition, Leon Ginsberg and Julie Miller-Cribbs offer an updated text that covers all the required content areas for the social welfare policy and service sequence as specified in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards of the Council on Social Work Education's Commission on Accreditation.

The story of Southern cadets at major military colleges during the Civil War - the Georgia Military Institute, the South Carolina Military Academy , the University of Alabama, and the Virginia Military Institute. It is also the story of the Confederate government's lack of policy on military colleges and its failure to adequately support them.

A firsthand look at one of South Carolina's most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. , Robert F. W. Allston's letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War.

Barry Menikoff reveals that Stevenson was a serious student of Scottish history and culture. His true project was to reconsititute his country's history after the collapse of the Jacobite rebellion. Menikoff contends that in Kidnapped and David Balfour Stevenson imaginatively reconstructed that culture for the sake of his nation, and its posterity.