University of South Carolina Press

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Charles Francis, Jr. AdamsIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 86Publication date: 2010D...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Reducere. Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, "Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special ha...

Reducere. Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it." Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth--Georgia is the nation...

Reducere. Powerful and mysterious, sharks inspire both fascination and fear. Worldwide, oceans are home to some five-hundred species, and of those, fifty-six...

Reducere. DescriptionC. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a sing...

Reducere. DescriptionWith 50 routes ranging from 3 to more than 30 miles, this guide features destinations like the pristine waterfalls of Panthertown Valley...

Reducere. Andrea Weigl defines the year by her canning sessions. In the winter, she makes bright yellow Jerusalem Artichoke Relish from her backyard crop. In...

Reducere. John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecu...

Reducere. Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, who...

Reducere. Robust and delicious, beans and field peas have graced the tables of southerners for generations, making daily appearances on vegetable plates, sid...

Reducere. Without corn, Tema Flanagan writes, the South would cease to taste like the South. Her treasury of fifty-one recipes demonstrates deliciously just ...

Reducere. Rife with historical details and peppered with comic characters, The Golden Christmas remains a timeless tale of South Carolina's rich holiday heri...

Reducere. While many fish, from bream and crappie to bass, trout, and shad, are popular in the South, none of them has settled as thoroughly in southern cult...

Reducere. While fried chicken may be the South's iconic dish, when it comes to southern foodways, there are a lot of ways to love America's most popular fowl...

Reducere. Gardening Notes for South Carolina offers is a handbook for beginners and intermediate gardeners and includes expert guidance on planting and maint...

Reducere. Fruit collects a dozen of the South's bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook's basket of fifty-four luscious dishes, savory and sweet. Demand f...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

Reducere. Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables--and on tables around the world--rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W....

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This souther...

Reducere. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentie...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

Reducere. In this gardening guide for the South, Roxann Ward shows how color provides one of the easiest and most impressive ways to shape a garden with inte...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

Reducere. The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of S...

Reducere. Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing tex...

Reducere. This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across t...

Reducere. A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival a...

Reducere. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book Award of the American Revolu...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1779 Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York, seeking to capture the colonies' most...

Reducere. First published in 1930 as 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, this collection of more than three hundred recipes was gathered by Blanche S. Rhett fro...

Reducere. From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrate...

Reducere. As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, Sout...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

DescriptionIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined force...

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily ...

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

Reducere. In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the...

This is the comprehensive biography of one of the least known Revolutionary War generals, Benjamin Lincoln. It explains the events that shaped Linc...

Reducere. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...

Reducere. The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide...

Reducere. Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement...

Reducere. In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth sty...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Reducere. Tideland Treasure is an illustrated guide to the beaches and marshes of the eastern coast of the United States, encompassing seashores and wetlands...

Reducere. Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers-until now. My...

Reducere. Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a di...

Reducere. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illus...

This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines recurring thematic ...

Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal i...

Serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifac...

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. Th...

Reducere. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publ...

According to tailgating enthusiast Taylor Mathis, You'll understand why a game day in the South is unlike any other when you read this cookbook. Ma...

On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State Colle...

Reducere. Pat Conroy�s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has r...

Reducere. DescriptionA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South ...

Reducere. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his p...

Reducere. For topping French fries or cottage cheese, K rations or school lunches, ketchup has long been an American favorite. In Pure Ketchup, Andrew F. Smi...

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

Reading the World explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works, crafted during his Tennessee period from 195...

Reducere. Finally: a book that addresses the unique challenges of gardening in the coastal South.Master Gardener Barbara Sullivan provides an authoritative g...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Reducere. In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten s...

Reducere. Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghogh...