<P> Louis Wright's masterful telling of South Carolina's story will fascinate residents and non-residents alike.
<P> A land whose people knew the joy of great victories and the sadness of bitter defeats, South Carolina gave us the first Americans cowboys, the cotton gin, and a long list of colorful...
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Authoritative and perceptive, this sweeping survey covers 150 years of cultural evolution in colonial America, from 1607 to 1763. Developments in religion, literature, education, and social thought receive a thorough analysis, enlivened by a blend of wit and panache that captures all the excitement ...
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“Guides to conduct are common to all ages, for writers never cease to believe that the distillation of their wisdom will in some fashion improve the behavior of youth and provide useful instruction to their elders. The sixteenth century was a particularly didactic age and had more than its share of ...
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To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press
reissues its first-ever publication. The volume's two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a
Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American
colonization, but the dramatic events' even greater cla...
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