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A Sea of Misadventures examines more than 100 documented shipwreck narratives from the 17th to the 19th century as a means to understanding gender, status and religion in the history of early Ameri

“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral home.

Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge.

The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond.

The historical Ezra was sent to Jerusalem as an emissary of the Persian monarch. What was his task?

Belle W. Baruch (1899–1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle — abilities that distanced her from other debutantes of 1917.

It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives.

Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of “marginal” contexts.

Once deemed "the most powerful man in the South," Charleston newspaper editor Frank Dawson met his violent death on March 12, 1889, at the hands of his neighbor, a disreputable doctor who

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean be

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative.

The Lost Woods is a collection of 15 short stories, most of them set in and around the fictional small town of Sledge, SC.

In this first book-length analysis of Ron Rash's fiction and poetry, John Lang covers all of Rash’s books published through 2013 and offers key insights about his aims, themes, literary techni

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Au

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 S