Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina's Forests
Tracing South Carolina's hidden history of lumber, labor, and forest conservation across two centuries South Carolina's forests have long shaped the state's economy, landscapes, and labor practices, but its history has remained surprisingly understudied. Wood Basket of the World brings together essays that explore how lumbering, wood-product ......
An expanded edition of Rutledge's stories on game-bird hunting and devoted canine companions Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more ......
Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor
How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome them Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered ......
Coastal Carolina's 2016 Championship and the Rise of a Baseball Power
An improbable dream fulfilled in one unforgettable season In 2016, a mid-major team from Conway, South Carolina, shocked the college baseball world. Led by veteran head coach Gary Gilmore-who had spent two decades building a program that had once played on borrowed fields and traveled in hand-me-down vans into a national power-the Coastal ......
A Memoir of Colorectal Cancer and the Power of Self-Advocacy
For colorectal cancer patients, the people who love them, and the professionals who care for them, a clear-eyed account of one woman's fight to survive
Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowerment Modern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many individuals with chronic and contested illnesses take matters into their own hands. These patients often seek ......
Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowerment Modern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many individuals with chronic and contested illnesses take matters into their own hands. These patients often seek ......
My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond
Memories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justice Millicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle for racial justice, and those experiences set her on a life course dedicated to the ......