An anthology of important scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras from the journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association.Since 1931, the South Carolina Historical Association has published an annual, peer-reviewed journal of historical scholarship. In this volume, past SCHA officers of Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer present twenty-three of the most enduring and significant essays from the archives, offering a treasure trove of sc...

Edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region’s relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South’s traditional social structure, and how the war effort stressed and reshaped the southern economy. The volume contends that participation in World War I contributed greatly to the modernization of the South, initiating chang...

The Medicos, the Purple Hurricane, the Seceders- all South Carolina football mascots that long ago drifted into history. From as early as 1889, college football began to take hold of South Carolina. The fans of the state's first intercollegiate game could hardly have foreseen how it would steadily grow from a competition between amateurs into tightly organized teams with well-paid coaches and demanding alumni, all with a passionate desire to win. This volume goes beyond Clemson and Carolin...

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these biographical portraits—in particular, the breadth of interracial cooperation between women in the d...

Achim Priester wurde am 19. Juni 1959 in Bonn als Sohn eines Astrophysikers und einer Mathematikerin geboren. Er hat das Down-Syndrom. Sein großer Lebensinhalt war das Schreiben. Inspiriert wurde er u.a. von James Krüss und Otfried Preußler. Zu beiden pflegte er über viele Jahre hinweg eine Brieffreundschaft. 2016 wurden im Nachlass seiner Eltern viele Gedichte, Märchen, Geschichten und Notizen von ihm gefunden. Das Hörbuch "Das goldene Birkenzweiglein – Märchen und Wintergeschichten" bein...