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Brookgreen Gardens

A celebration of Brookgreen Gardens’ 90^th anniversary, this volume features sculptures, historic sites, botanical gardens, and zoo animals in 100 color photographs.

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Art & Photography

Gullah Spirit

Artist Jonathan Green celebrates the daily rituals and traditions of the Gullah people in South Carolina’s Lowcountry in 180 new vibrant paintings.

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Cooking & Culinary History

Taste the State

A comprehensive collection of South Carolina food history featuring 82 food profiles of the state's most distinctive ingredients, historic and modern recipes, and the contributions of Native Americans, the Gullah Geechee, and European settlers to Carolina cooking.

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Taste the State

Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields

The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All

Mary Martha Greene

Live at Jackson Station

Daniel M. Harrison

Monumental Harm

Roger C. Hartley

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson

The Southern Wildlife Watcher

Rob Simbeck
foreword by Jim Casada

The Shell Builders

Colin Brooker
foreword by Lawrence S. Rowland

The Butler's Child

Lewis M. Steel
with Beau Friedlander

Lowcountry at High Tide

Christina Rae Butler

Like Wildfire

edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Lesli K. Pace

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We the People

Mary Whyte

Civil War Ghost Stories and Legends

Nancy Roberts

Blessed Experiences

James E. Clyburn
foreword by Alfre Woodard

Working South

Mary Whyte
foreword by Martha Severns

Greek Revival

Patricia Moore-Pastides
foreword by Dimitrios Trichopoulos
photographs by Keith McGraw

Reflections of South Carolina, Volume 1

photographs by Robert C. Clark
Tom Poland
foreword by Walter Edgar

South Carolina

Walter Edgar

Gullah Images

illustrated by Jonathan Green
foreword by Pat Conroy

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Fugitive Movements

edited by James O'Neil Spady
foreword by Manisha Sinha

Empowering Communities

Lacy K. Ford and Jared Bailey
foreword by James E. Clyburn

Struggling to Learn

June Manning Thomas

Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen Gardens
introduction by Page Hayhurst Kiniry
foreword by Dick Rosen
with contributions by Robin R. Salmon

Only Wanna Be with You

Tim Sommer

Understanding Philip Roth

Matthew A. Shipe

Row Upon Row, fourth edition

Dale Rosengarten and McKissick Museum
preface by Jane Przybysz

Child

Judy Goldman

Enduring Shame

Heather Brook Adams

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

M.V. Hood, III and Seth C. McKee

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The Words and Wares of David Drake

edited by Jill Beute Koverman and Jane Przybysz

Charleston Renaissance Man

Ralph C. Muldrow
foreword by Witold Rybczynski

A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, revised and expanded edition

Patrick D. McMillan, Richard D. Porcher, Jr., Douglas A. Rayner, and David B. White

University of South Carolina in Focus

Chris Horn
foreword by Connor Shaw

The Man Who Started the Civil War

Anna Koivusalo

The Charleston Museum

Carl P. Borick

Beatrice's Ledger

Ruth R. Martin
with Vivian B. Martin

Child

Judy Goldman

Row Upon Row, fourth edition

Dale Rosengarten and McKissick Museum
preface by Jane Przybysz

Only Wanna Be with You

Tim Sommer

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Invisible No More launch event

Posted: January 14, 2022

Invisible No More, a comprehensive collection about the impact of African Americans on the University of South Carolina, will launch at a virtual celebration on MLK Day in partnership with the…
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#KeepUP with The Cheese Biscuit Queen for #UPWeek

Posted: November 8, 2021

University Presses are a force to #KeepUP with! 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of University Press Week and we’re celebrating with a guest blog from author Mary Martha Greene that we h…
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Rob Simbeck's The Southern Wildlife Watcher is awarded the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers' 2021 Best Book Award

Posted: September 20, 2021

The AGLOW Awards in Craft Competition has awarded Rob Simbeck’s The Southern Wildlife Watcher: Notes of a Naturalist the 2021 Best of Book Award. The Association of Great Lakes Outdoor…
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Storytelling, Cooking, and Biscuit-Tasting with Mary Martha Greene

Join Mary Martha Greene, author of The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All, for an evening of cooking, storytelling, and biscuit-tasting at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC. Mary will offer her…
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Storytelling, Cooking, and Biscuit-Tasting with Mary Martha Greene

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