Some of the finest articles exploring the Civil War in South Carolina, first published in the South Carolina Historical Society Magazine, are collected here in a remarkable volume that streches from the gathering for the Secession Convention in December 1860 until the battles that followed the Confederate surrender in 1865. The book provide both sides' perspectioves on the opening attack on Fort Sumter and on Sherman's March. Every corner of South Carolina is featured in these selections because the War touched the lives of everyone. Contributors to the volume include some of the state's leading historians.

The Civil War in South Carolina: Selections from the South Carolina Historical Magazine

Lawrence S. Rowland

History

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Art Is a Powerful Language: Willard Hirsch: The Man, the Artist

This book is a unique and exceptionally revealing window into South Carolina's troubled Reconstruction history. Edited with a poignant introduction by John Hammond Moore, this volume introduces an unconventional view of Reconstruction from a brilliant and unconventional young South Carolinian. A frustrated poet, Belton O'Neall Townsend found fame as a trenchant and brutally honest commentator on Reconstruction South Carolina's politics, society, and morals.-Lawrence S. Rowland, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina-Beaufort

When South Carolina Was an Armed Camp: The Reconstruction Essays of Belton O'Neall Townsend

Americas

Lovingly illustrated by her granddaughter Mary Ingalls Coté, May Brailsford’s delightful memoir tells the story of growing up in a village where everyone knew everyone else and a little girl’s spirit could soar. If Laura Ingalls Wilder had lived on the coast of South Carolina, this is the book she would have written. May climbed the Cape Romain lighthouse and swam at a bathing house by the wharf, dodging a little boy who tried to sneak a peek. She grew into a spunky, self-reliant woman who in the 1930s headed a crew that planted live oaks, crepe myrtle, dogwoods, and wisteria along the main roads of her village. She taught herself to paint at the age of 62 and achieved renown for her bold, “primitive” renderings of live oaks, magnolia blossoms, and coastal scenes. “By the time I was five,” remembers May Morrison Brailsford in this memoir of growing up on the South Carolina coast, “I could sail a boat and swim and catch more crabs than anybody—bogging or with a line

Maypop: Tales from a Lowcountry Village

May Morrison Brailsford

Led by Porgy and Bess scholar Harlan Greene, many aspects of the book, play, and opera and their roots in Lowcountry South Carolina are explored by local and national experts. Contributors include Harlan Greene, Damon L. Fordham, Karen A. Chandler, Jennifer Scott, and Pamela S. Wall. Porgy &amp; Bess: A Charleston Story provides insight not only into one of America's greatest operas but also into, as DuBose Heyward called Charleston, the "ancient, beautiful city that time had forgotten."

Porgy & Bess: A Charleston Story

Harlan Greene

Remaining Folly is Richard Beck’s love letter to Folly Beach, a chronicle of how this “red-haired stepchild” beach community of the Charleston, S.C. area transformed into the unique, colorful, fun-loving place it is today—filled with an eclectic mix of characters. He takes us on a journey from Folly’s first recognition as a place where the sick, dead, and dying of the colonial era were disembarked before entering Charleston through multiple challenges to its existence and identity. Each step of its transformation from wilderness island to thriving beach town is recounted with devoted care.\nThis story of the extraordinary activism of its people during the period makes for an instructive and memorable tale. But that story is by no means over. Pressures to change the character of Folly and other communities continue…and increase with every passing year.

Remaining Folly: A Sea Island's Journey

Biographies & Memoirs

Beck, Richard L

Historical

From the Introduction: Southern writers have been introducing readers to sorry southern men and enthralling audiences with tales of those villains for generations. ... Now, as we move forward in the 21st century, Southern authors are plowing new fields of Southern culture and history and many are taking different approaches to regional story-telling. Unfortunately, as they pursue their new and different interests, many of today's southern literati-including scholars, novelists, memoirists, essayists, poets, and critics-seem to have soured on Twentieth Century classics. ... For generations, the southern literary establishment treasured Faulkner et al and embraced the South and regional culture as a unique, almost mythical essence, with dark undertones and stark villains; now, those sentiments are expressed mainly in outlying forums and rear-guard debates. We are observing the perhaps inevitable evolution of southern writers into bifurcated camps that I'll oversimplify as progressives versus traditionalists. The former individuals are inclined toward a more liberal society, especially when it comes to race, gender, class, and religion, and they exhibit worldly perspectives rather than rural or regional identity. On the other hand, traditionalists generally reject the progressive vision. But many of them seem afraid to deal with certain aspects of classic authors and literature characterized as offensive, because "going there" might risk professional condemnation and jeopardize their writing careers. ... I would like for this collection to be more than entertaining. First, I want to tell cogent stories about sorry men, and honest and empathetic stories about the women and children who share the sorry man's life. The second reason is very simple-I want to demonstrate that these individuals are legitimate and acceptable characters in contemporary literature. These 21 original short stories by Rebecca Browder attempt, without disrespect to the progressive Southern literary establishment, to keep alive the flavor of traditional Southern voices of authors like Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner. "About half," she writes, "are dark tales depicting real elements of Gothic sorriness, i.e., ignorance, crudeness, ugliness, and violence, that sometimes taint familial relationships; others are light-hearted accounts of oddball individuals who disrupt the lives of their loved ones."

Sorry Men in Southern Literature: 21 Original Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Browder, Rebecca

History & Criticism

Fifty-six years have passed since Ely Green brought his handwritten autobiography to my father, Arthur Ben Chitty, in late December of 1964. My father had been taking oral histories of Sewanee’s residents for years, but he had never heard a story like Ely’s, perhaps because Ely was uniquely positioned to observe the time and place and uniquely gifted to tell his story.… to me, Ely’s is the most comprehensive, subtle, layered, and detailed first-person description of the white supremacist Jim Crow system in existence. — Em Turner Chitty, from the Introduction

Ely: Too Black…Too White: 50th Anniversary Edition

Green, Ely

Leaders & Notable People

American Pamela Courtney's most formative years were spent in the bush of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this recounting of her childhood through adulthood, Courtney, the daughter of missionaries governed by a less-than-supportive missionary organization, describes dangers most Americans will not only never experience but can't even imagine-from the inherent upheaval in the transfer of British power to warring tribal leaders to the challenges presented by the incredibly beautiful but rugged landscapes and the cross-cultural conflicts they encountered in providing medical care and education. A true adult Third Culture Kid (TCK/A), she offers an inclusive alternative worldview and expression of the Christian principles espoused by her parents-all born of the culture shock she experienced when she returned to attend university in the United States...and her lifelong attempt to reconcile the differences between her country of birth and the one in which her identity was forged.

Hotdogs for Hyenas: A Soul Forged in Rhodesia

Courtney, Pamela

Memoirs

No one can fully appreciate South Carolina history without an understanding of the Barbados history that led to the colony’s settlement. In the same way, much of the history of Barbados can be found in the outreach of her residents—to North America, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. Our histories and our cultures … are closely intertwined. Even after more than a hundred years of research about that relationship, much of it we are only now uncovering. —from the introduction by Stephen G. Hoffius\nSix articles published between 1930 and 1995 in the South Carolina Historical Magazine probe the historical research of people, architecture, and slavery in Barbados and South Carolina and reveal the longstanding connections between them.

South Carolina and Barbados Connections: Selections from the South Carolina Historical Magazine

Dunn, Richard S.

Hoffius, Stephen G.

Greene, Jack P.

Rogers Jr., George C.

Williams, George W.

Bull, Kinloch

Thomas Jr, John P

Little, Thomas J.

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