Fall 2025 Catalog

Abstract watercolor painting in with blue, teal, and brown shapes on beige background. Title in white.

Browse our fall 2025 catalog below and on Edelweiss. 

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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).

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Painting of a brown leather journal, white feather, and blue pencil. White author name in upper left; title bottom left; subtitle bottom right.

An Artist's Life
Unlocking Creative Expression

Mary Whyte

October 14, 2025
$39.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-540-4
ART/Self-help

The path to discovering and developing the artist within

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Botanical illustration of a peach. Background of peaches, onions, and shrimp. Black title centered above the peach, author names below.

Taste the State Georgia
Distinctive Foods and Stories from Where Eating Local Began

Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields
Foreword by Mashama Bailey

August 19, 2025
$37.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-544-2
COOKING/Southern History

Ingredient by ingredient, dish by dish, take a tantalizing tour of Georgia's signature foods

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Painting of a man in a white shirt and black bowtie on a mauve background. Cream title and author name are vertical along the right side.

A Dream Deferred
The Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston

M. Akua McDaniel

January 13, 2026
$28.99t, cloth, 978-1-64336-559-6
ART/Biography

The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists

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Side profile of a young Black woman. Blue and white title at right, white subtitle underneath. Blue and white author name centered at bottom.

Come Along with Me
An African American Woman's Journey for Justice

Henrie Monteith Treadwell

October 23, 2025
$22.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-606-7
MEMOIR/African American Studies

The first Black woman graduate of the University of South Carolina recounts a life of activism and service

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Soldier of the South
Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson at War and Peace

Edward J. Hagerty

January 22, 2026
$36.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-622-7
CIVIL WAR/Biography

Military biography of Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, whose career led him from West Point to Mexico, Charleston to Appomattox

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The Confederate flag overlaid on the American flag. Red and navy title and author name on cream background in the bottom right.

The Republican House Divided
Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP

Tim Galsworthy

November 20, 2025
$44.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-508-4
CIVIL WAR/American Politics

How the Republican Party transformed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Lee

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View of South Carolina Statehouse from front right corner. Blue title and white author name in upper left.

The Concise Guide to South Carolina State Government

Vincent Sheheen

December 4, 2025
$16.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-643-2
$54.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-601-2
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT/South Carolina

An insider's guide to the government of the Palmetto State

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State outline with inset photos of a waterfall; capitol building; beach with Ferris wheel; and bay. Blue background with white title and author names.

Atlas of South Carolina
Third Edition

Edited by Austin Crane, Michael Mewborne, and Jory Fleming
Illustrated by Elbie Bentley

August 28, 2025
$29.99s, spiral, 978-1-64336-626-5
$0.00, open access ebook
GEOGRAPHY/South Carolina/Juvenile Nonfiction

A rich visual illustration of South Carolina's physical, political, social, and cultural geography

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Centered white paper silhouettes of two women. Red background, edged with blue scrollwork. Dark blue title in bottom third. White author name at top.

Paper Heroines
Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838–1902

Mollie Barnes

February 5, 2026
$34.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-536-7
SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY/Women's Studies

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing

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Illustrated shepherd fending off wolves from sheep. Black title centered, gold author name above.

Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves
Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874

Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr.

October 23, 2025
$27.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-637-1
$54.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-614-2
$0.00, open access ebook
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION/Public Health

How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities

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Close-up linocut of a woman with blue and red coloration. Black title, subtitle, and author name aligned left and centered.

Winning Our Wonder
Rhetorical Re/Constructions of American Civil War Women on the Webces

Patty Wilde 

December 4, 2025
$32.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-599-2
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-598-5
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION

How public memory informs our understanding of gender and race in the Civil War Era and beyond

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Cut shapes with colorized black and white portraits and abstract patterns. Centered white title overlays images. Black author name centered at top.

Community and Critique
The Rhetorical Activism of Black American Women's Memory Work

Sara C. VanderHaagen

September 25, 2025
$29.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-612-8
$74.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-546-6
$0.00, open access ebook
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories

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Yellow, magenta, and cyan brushstrokes. Black title above and editor names in bottom left corner.

Rhetorica Rising
Feminist Rhetorical Methods for Social Change

Edited by Eileen E. Schell, K.J. Rawson, Curtis J. Jewell, Abigail H. Long, Sidney Turner, and Gabriella Wilson

October 2, 2025
$32.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-610-4
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-586-2
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION

Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change

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Inset photograph of a woman with long hair, wearing dangle earrings on a pale blue background. Gray title above and author name below.

Understanding Jorie Graham

N. S. Boone

December 11, 2025
$21.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-641-8
$114.99s, cloth, 978-1-64336-542-8
LITERARY STUDIES

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

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Football playbook on a garnet background and inset photos of football and basketball players. White title centered with author name above.

A Gamecock Odyssey
University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era

Alan Piercy

August 12, 2025
$19.99t, paper, 978-1-64336-609-8
Cloth ed. 2013, 978-1-64336-448-3
SPORTS/South Carolina History

“For Gamecock fans or sports buffs, A Gamecock Odyssey is a historical must-read.”
—Bob Gillespie, former senior sportswriter/columnist with The State Media

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Background of aged tan papers with black script. Title, subtitle, and author name in a gradient of black and rainbow.

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age
A Rhetorical Education

Pamela VanHaitsma

August 7, 2025
$27.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-608-1
$0.00, open access ebook
Cloth ed. 2019, 978-1-61117-990-3
RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION

“Compelling and accessible . . . An excellent example of how to bring queer scholarship to bear on the field's more traditional concerns with history, citizenship, and genre.”
—Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Inset black and white photo of a brick building on blue ocean and sky background. White title centered above, white author name centered at bottom.

From New Babylon to Eden
The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, Updated Edition

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Foreword by Owen Stanwood

October 2, 2025
$34.99s, paper, 978-1-64336-330-1
Cloth ed. 2006, 978-1-57003-583-8
SOUTHERN HISTORY

A revealing account of the choices French immigrants faced as they settled in South Carolina

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