Mary Martha Greene, author of the bestselling The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All, returns with signature sass and 80 new recipes in The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic! - a delicious romp through Southern recipes and tales, with just enough spice that you'll be fluttering your hand fan.
A beloved storyteller's finest tales of outdoor adventure and the sporting experience Archibald Rutledge ranks as one of America's best-loved and most prolific outdoor writers. He had a rare knack for capturing the joys of a life lived close to the land, the beauty of the outdoors, the thrill of hunting, and the camaraderie at the heart of the ......
Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animalNo American outdoor writer has more convincingly captured the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt than Archibald Rutledge. The renowned outdoor writer and poet laureate, who grew up at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, had a mystical attachment to deer. His stories ......
Tabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands
Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even ......
The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory
A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary and the Mob, author Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted ......
The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ruined) and at a Pennsylvania factory (Sweat), she creatively ......
The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ruined) and at a Pennsylvania factory (Sweat), she creatively ......
The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South
At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his ......
