Spring 2025 Catalog
Browse our spring 2026 catalog below and on Edelweiss.
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Most titles are also available in ebook format.
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To order books, contact our distributor Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS) (800-537-5487 or hfscustserv@jh.edu), our interim marketing director (South Carolina), or one of our sales representatives (the South).
Trade
South Carolina Reflections
A Photographic Journey
Photographs by Robert C. Clark
Text by Tom Poland
Foreword by Mary Alice Monroe
March 11, 2025
$44.99t, paper, 978-1-64336-556-5
PHOTOGRAPHY/South Carolina
A luminous visual survey of South Carolina's splendor
The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic!
Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More Rambunctious Behavior
Mary Martha Greene
Foreword by Cassandra King
February 18, 2025
$27.99t, cloth 978-1-64336-530-5
COOKBOOKS/Memoir
The Cheese Biscuit Queen returns with signature sass, spirited stories, and 80 new recipes
Otherwise, I'm Fine
A Memoir
Barbara Presnell
April 22, 2025
$26.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-506-0
MEMOIR/Grief
A daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing
Descended
Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots
Keith Rushing
April 15, 2025
$25.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-562-6
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY/South Carolina
A mysterious name initiates a journey to discover one family's past, and reveals more than was expected
The Virginia House-wife
200th Anniversary Edition
Mary Randolph
With commentary by Karen Hess
Foreword by Debra Freeman
March 18, 2025
$27.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-551-0
COOKBOOKS/Southern History
The 200-year-old cookbook every modern food lover needs
Scholarly
Flocks of Birds
Virginia Colonialism into Native Country, 1670–1776
Anthony S. Parent Jr.
June 26, 2025
$44.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-574-9
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY/Southern History
Centers Indigenous people and voices in the history of the vast expansion of Virginia colonialism into Appalachia
Rebirth
Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum
Jennifer Whitmer Taylor
April 10, 2025
$29.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-583-1
$74.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-558-9
$0.00, open access ebook
RECONSTRUCTION ERA/Museum Studies
Reimagining both the House Museum and Reconstruction memory for the twenty-first century
Landscapes of Freedom
Restoring the History of Emancipation and Citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861–1940
Rebecca Capobianco Toy
July 3, 2025
$29.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-592-3
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-534-3
RECONSTRUCTION ERA/Historic Preservation
Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America's post-Civil War Reconstruction
Democracy and the Courts
The Rise of Judicial Elections in the Antebellum South
David M. Gold
June 12, 2025
$49.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-565-7
LEGAL HISTORY/Southern History
The first comprehensive examination of the development of judicial elections in the American South
Free Black Charlestonians in Debate
The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847–1858
Edited by Angela G. Ray
May 15, 2025
$29.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-557-2
$74.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-579-4
$0.00, open access ebook
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
The comprehensive, never-before-published records of a debating society run by free Black men
Your Daughters Will Prophesy
Religion and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Movement
Lisa Marie Gring-Pemble and Martha Watson
March 22, 2025
$34.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-568-8
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-567-1
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION
How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day
Understanding Hunter S. Thompson
Kevin J. Hayes
May 8, 2025
$21.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-570-1
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-538-1
LITERARY CRITICISM
An insightful guide to the life and literary career of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson
Understanding Octavia E. Butler
Kendra R. Parker
April 24, 2025
$21.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-577-0
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-576-3
LITERARY CRITICISM
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author
Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture
Volume 2. Recovering Lost Stories
Edited by Christopher D. Johnson
April 10, 2025
$24.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-572-5
$0.00, open access ebook
SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY & CULTURE
“Carolina Currents is a welcome addition to the cultural conversations of South Carolina—inclusive, diverse, incisive, and overarching.”
—John Lane, author of The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph
New in Paperback
The Shell Builders
Tabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands
Colin Brooker
Foreword by Lawrence S. Rowland
February 6, 2025
$29.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-590-9
Cloth ed. 2020, 978-1-64336-071-3
ARCHITECTURE/South Carolina History and Culture
“Colin Brooker's The Shell Builders is a monumental assemblage of decades of experience and research.”
—Journal of Southern History
Hemingway's Brain
With a New Preface
Andrew Farah
April 17, 2025
$24.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-591-6
Cloth ed. 2017, 978-1-61117-742-8
BIOGRAPHY/Psychology
“Farah's book goes [deep], mixing biography, literature, and medical analysis.”
—The Washington Post
America's Greatest Game Bird
Archibald Rutledge's Turkey-Hunting Tales
Archibald Rutledge
Edited by Jim Casada
February 13, 2025
$28.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-593-0
Cloth ed. 1994, 978-0-87249-983-6
HUNTING/Essays
Evocative stories of wild turkey hunting capture the lure and lore of America's greatest game bird
Hunting and Home in the Southern Heartland
The Best of Archibald Rutledge
Archibald Rutledge
Edited by Jim Casada
February 13, 2025
$28.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-594-7
Cloth ed. 1992, 978-0-87249-822-8
HUNTING/Essays
A beloved storyteller's finest tales of outdoor adventure and the sporting experience
Tales of Whitetails
Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories
Archibald Rutledge
Edited by Jim Casada
February 13, 2025
$28.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-595-4
Cloth ed. 1992, 978-0-87249-860-0
HUNTING/Essays
Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animal