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The history and future of the unique partnership between the City of Columbia and the University of South Carolina

State universities are more than just places of higher learning, more…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534888/A-Gamecock-Odyssey
Meet the coaches, athletes, and notable characters that laid the foundation for today's Gamecock Nation.

The summer of 1971 was especially hot in Columbia and not just because of the w…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534886/Steady-and-Measured
Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State during the civil rights era

Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benn…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534872/From-Educational-Experiment-to-Standard-Bearer
An exploration of the University of South Carolina's trailblazing approach to the first-year experience

As an innovative educational experiment, University 101 was designed to support s…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534865/University-of-South-Carolina-in-Focus
A vivid portrait of one of the South's most beautiful college campuses

Chartered in 1801 and built upon a twenty-four-acre parcel of undeveloped land east of what is today the South Car…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534838/Schooling-the-Movement
A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movement

Southern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534837/Invisible-No-More
Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolina. Invisible No More seeks to recover that…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534807/Struggling-to-Learn
The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534797/Creating-the-South-Caroliniana-Library
The South Caroliniana Library, located on the historic Horseshoe of the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, is one of the premier research archives and special collections reposit…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534774/The-NCAA-and-the-Exploitation-of-College-Profit-Athletes
A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics

For the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five footba…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700