History of the Americas

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina details the people, places, and struggles that defined the region's prominent role in the path to American liberty from British authority.

The captivating, colorful, and controversial history of South Carolina continues to warrant fresh explorations.

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B.

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War.

This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.

The first comparative history of European settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean.

A study of early transatlantic trade in South Carolina that exposes the divisive complexity that led to warLondon's "e;Carolina traders,"e; a little-known group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensions in the South Carolina lowcountry.

The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with the wealth of the old rice kingdom in the Palmetto State.

The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's poetry.

In Learning the Valley, award-winning nature writer John Leland guides readers through the natural and human history of the Shenandoah Valley in twenty-five short essays on topics ranging from poison ivy and maple syrup to Stonewall Jackson and spelunking.

In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H.

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.

For years Tommy Charles searched South Carolina's upcountry for examples of ancient rock art carvings and paintings, efforts conducted on behalf of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA).

Carolina Christmas collects for the first time holiday stories of Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973), one of the most prolific outdoor and nature writers of the twentieth century and the first poet laureate of South Carolina.

This study explores the lives of Southern whites, Blacks, and Native Americans who stood with the British during the American Revolution.

Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors-depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories.

At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v.

This detailed account of Britain's Siege of Charleston is "e;a welcome addition to the history of South Carolina and of the American Revolution"e; (Journal of Military History).

Seventeen tales of untamed spirits in the newly expanded edition of the Spur Award finalist from the "e;custodian of the twilight zone"e; (Southern Living).

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

Both modern historians and early nineteenth-century observers have emphasized the wild and picturesque aspects of the Arkansas Territory, suggesting that the settlers here were more preoccupied with indolence or brawling than with economic progress.

A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century.

The War at Home brings together some of the state's leading historians to examine the connections between Arkansas and World War I.

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineers-through the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and others-was a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century.

Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis.

A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history.

San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years.

The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.

This history of the Union XII Corps "e;skillfully weaves firsthand accounts into a compelling story about the triumphs and defeats of this venerable unit"e; (Bradley M.

A history of the American Civil War naval battle, the first confrontation between two Ironclads, featuring accounts from men who lived through it.

After the unprecedented violence of the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Lt.

First in a trilogy-a study of the strategy, tactics, and rivalry between two leaders of the Army of the Potomac's cavalry during the American Civil War.

An often overlooked segment of Maine (and American) history is the story of women in the working class dance industries.

The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynastyIn the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston.

Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis.

Cities are constantly changing, constantly under construction, constantly moving forward.

New England is so compact that even casual visitors can sample its diverse history in just a short time.

What is it about islands that make them ideal settings for ghost stories?

Mount Desert Island has attracted scoundrels and scandals for more than 100 years.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners.

Celebrate the bicentennial of Maine statehood.

Each year thousands of men and women and families recreate on Maine's Public Reserved Lands.

In 1964 three cousins tapped three thousand sugar maples deep in the Maine woods.

From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse.

Travel just a few miles beyond Acadia National Park and you will find a little known and seldom visited patchwork of quaint fishing villages, rocky coastlines, wild blueberry fields, and vast stretches of forestland reaching all the way to the Canadian border, a hundred miles away.

Centuries before the U.

There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off took special talent and pants had watch pockets.

An often overlooked segment of Maine (and American) history is the story of women in the working class dance industries.

Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time.