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African-American and Native American History and Issues
Stories Untold: Slave Life in South Carolina (Lesley Drucker)
One Nation Within the United States: The Cherokees Yesterday and Today (Will Goins)
Freedom to Worship: Native American Perspectives (Will Goins)
Understanding Native American Identity (Will Goins)
The Road to Sovereignty: U.S.-Indian Relations Yesterday & Today (Will Goins)
Mother Earth, Father Sky: The Reality of Native America (Will Goins)
Images of Native America in Music (Will Goins)
American Indians as Slaves in Colonial South Carolina (Will Goins)
The Seven Organized Tribal Groups of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Ethnomusicology: Native American Music (Will Goins)
Cherokee Indians of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Lumbee Indians of the Cheraw Nation (Will Goins)
Native American Arts and Crafts (Will Goins)
A Journey Through Time: Sequoyah (Will Goins)
African Americans in the Civil War (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
African American Women, Literature, and Spirituality (Stephanie Mitchem)
Creative Power of African American Religion (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Women and Spiritual Autobiography (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Culture (Stephanie Mitchem)
Confitachequi: A Chiefdom (Gail Wagner)
Prehistoric Effects on the Landscape (Gail Wagner)
Use of Plants by American Indians (Gail Wagner)
Indian Gardens (Gail Wagner)
Women and Gardening in Prehistory (Gail Wagner)
From Barbeque to Grits: The REAL Native Cuisine of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Native Foods, Plants, and Native Myths (Will Goins)
Native Foods Used in Healing (Will Goins)
Cooking with a REAL Indian Chef or Chief (Will Goins)
Slave Cabins of South Carolina (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
Service, Honor, Heritage, Pride? The Ethics of Native American Indians that Participated in the Civil War (Will Goins)
An UNTOLD Story of Native American Contributions to America's Roots Music (Will Goins)
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the African American Quest for Freedom (Ron Roth)
Anthropology
Workshop: Teaching Archaeology to Children (Lesley Drucker)
Earth Clues: Geology, Soils, and the Human Past (Lesley Drucker)
Stories Untold: Slave Life in South Carolina (Lesley Drucker)
Protecting Community Heritage Through Archaeology (Lesley Drucker)
The Anthropology of Dance (Lesley Drucker)
Exploring Multiculturalism Through Dance (Lesley Drucker)
African American Culture (Stephanie Mitchem)
Why Garden? (Gail Wagner)
Confitachequi: A Chiefdom (Gail Wagner)
Prehistoric Effects on the Landscape (Gail Wagner)
West Side Story (Gail Wagner)
Use of Plants by American Indians (Gail Wagner)
Indian Gardens (Gail Wagner)
Women and Gardening in Prehistory (Gail Wagner)
Native Foods, Plants, and Native Myths (Will Goins)
Native Foods Used in Healing (Will Goins)
Cooking with a REAL Indian Chef or Chief (Will Goins)
Jack Tales from the Richard Chase Collection (John Williams)
Can Nature Knowledge Save the World? (Gail Wagner)
Slave Cabins of South Carolina (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
Art and Music
The Anthropology of Dance (Lesley Drucker)
Exploring Multiculturalism Through Dance (Lesley Drucker)
The Classic/Romantic Distinction: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture, Fashion & Gardens (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
Mother Earth, Father Sky: The Reality of Native America (Will Goins)
American Musical Theater: Portrait of a Nation (Will Goins)
Images of Native America in Music (Will Goins)
Ethnomusicology: Native American Music (Will Goins)
Native American Arts and Crafts (Will Goins)
Southern Voices (Walter Liniger)
The Holocaust Through Film (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
What's Happening to Political Cartooning? (Kate Salley Palmer)
Political Cartoons - Past, Present, and Future (Kate Salley Palmer)
An UNTOLD Story of Native American Contributions to America's Roots Music (Will Goins)
Desperate Hours: Understanding the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg through the Sculpture of its Battlefield Monuments (Ron Roth)
The Entrepreneurial Artist: John James Audubon in the Lowcountry (Ron Roth)
The Neglected Inheritance of American 'Lonesomeness' (Kevin Lewis)
Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano Music During the Civil War Era (David Thompson)
Songs of the War Between the States (Philip Cheney)
Ballads, Songs, and Stories of the Southern Appalachians (Philip Cheney)
Comparative Religion
Zen and the Art of Anything (Hal French)
Religion and World Affairs: India, Israel, Ireland (Hal French)
Beyond Religious Fanaticism: A Place of Meeting Rivers (Hal French)
The Truth of Non-Violence (Hal French)
Freedom to Worship: Native American Perspectives (Will Goins)
Mother Earth, Father Sky: The Reality of Native America (Will Goins)
African American Women, Literature, and Spirituality (Stephanie Mitchem)
Creative Power of African American Religion (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Women and Spiritual Autobiography (Stephanie Mitchem)
Religion and Politics (Stuart Sprague)
Religion and Medicine (Stuart Sprague)
Understanding the Crisis in Iraq and Iran (John Williams)
The Seeds of the Final Solution (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Holocaust Through Film (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Holocaust - In the Beginning (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
Irene Nemirovsky - A One Woman Play (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Neglected Inheritance of American 'Lonesomeness' (Kevin Lewis)
An Introduction to Modern Islam (David Damrel)
Culture/Ethnicity
Y'all Come Back Now, Y'heah? (Bill Brockington)
South Carolina: A Crock-pot Culture (Bill Brockington)
Are they Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish? (Bill Brockington)
Stories Untold: Slave Life in South Carolina (Lesley Drucker)
Exploring Multiculturalism Through Dance (Lesley Drucker)
Religion and World Affairs: India, Israel, Ireland (Hal French)
One Nation Within the United States: The Cherokees Yesterday and Today (Will Goins)
Freedom to Worship: Native American Perspectives (Will Goins)
Understanding Native American Identity (Will Goins)
The Road to Sovereignty: U.S.-Indian Relations Yesterday & Today (Will Goins)
Mother Earth, Father Sky: The Reality of Native America (Will Goins)
Images of Native America in Music (Will Goins)
American Indians as Slaves in Colonial South Carolina (Will Goins)
The Seven Organized Tribal Groups of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Ethnomusicology: Native American Music (Will Goins)
Cherokee Indians of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Lumbee Indians of the Cheraw Nation (Will Goins)
Native American Arts and Crafts (Will Goins)
A Journey Through Time: Sequoyah (Will Goins)
Southern Voices (Walter Liniger)
African Americans in the Civil War (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
African American Women, Literature, and Spirituality (Stephanie Mitchem)
Creative Power of African American Religion (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Women and Spiritual Autobiography (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Culture (Stephanie Mitchem)
Stories From Our Mountain Heritage (John Williams)
Tales From the Mill Villages (John Williams)
Legends and Ghost Stories from the South (John Williams)
Understanding the Crisis in Iraq and Iran (John Williams)
How To Collect Your Community Stories (John Williams)
From Barbeque to Grits: The REAL Native Cuisine of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Native Foods, Plants, and Native Myths (Will Goins)
Native Foods Used in Healing (Will Goins)
Cooking with a REAL Indian Chef or Chief (Will Goins)
Can Nature Knowledge Save the World? (Gail Wagner)
Slave Cabins of South Carolina (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
Service, Honor, Heritage, Pride? The Ethics of Native American Indians that Participated in the Civil War (Will Goins)
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the African American Quest for Freedom (Ron Roth)
Education
Workshop: Teaching Archaeology to Children (Lesley Drucker)
Protecting Community Heritage Through Archaeology (Lesley Drucker)
The History of Liberal Arts Education (Margaret Oakes)
Booking it With Kids Across America (B.J. Welborn)
It’s Family History: No More Museums! (B.J. Welborn)
How To Collect Your Community Stories (John Williams)
Ethics
Medical Ethics: An Introductory Survey (Stuart Sprague)
End of Life Decisions (Stuart Sprague)
Ethics of Health Care Reform (Stuart Sprague)
Physician-Patient Relationships and Communication (Stuart Sprague)
Modes of Ethical Thought (Stuart Sprague)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 (Caroline McIntyre)
The Seeds of the Final Solution (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Holocaust - In the Beginning (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
Service, Honor, Heritage, Pride? The Ethics of Native American Indians that Participated in the Civil War (Will Goins)
Famous and Infamous People
Ben Franklin and the Constitution (Ed Beardsley)
Teddy Roosevelt: Life and Times (Ed Beardsley)
FDR and the New Deal (Ed Beardsley)
FDR and the WWII Homefront (Ed Beardsley)
FDR Discusses D-Day (Ed Beardsley)
The Life and Times of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Karen DeVos)
Struck by Lightning: Ben Franklin's Rod to the Omnipotence of God (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
A Journey Through Time: Sequoyah (Will Goins)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I: the Humility of Power (Margaret Oakes)
Historical Impersonation of General Francis Marion (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of John C. Calhoun (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of James F. Byrnes (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Sam Houston (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Theodore Roosevelt (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Adolf Hitler (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of General Douglas MacArthur (Joseph Stukes)
Carolina Women: Portraits of Strength and Courage (Carolyn Taylor)
Taking a Twain Ride, Pursuing Peripatetic Poe, Hunting Hemingway Hideaways: Adventures of a Traveling Bibliophile (B.J. Welborn)
Frustration of High Hopes: Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the American Rejection of the League of Nations (Ed Beardsley)
An Afternoon with Abraham Lincoln (Gerald Pitts)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 (Caroline McIntyre)
Mary Draper Ingles, Survivor of the Wilderness, 1755 (Caroline McIntyre)
The Classroom Civil War Museum (Gerald Pitts)
Irene Nemirovsky - A One Woman Play (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
Historical Impersonation of Henry Laurens (Joseph Stukes)
Thomas Jefferson Buys Louisiana (Joseph Stukes)
Teddy Roosevelt: Life and Times (Ed Beardsley)
U.S. Grant Goes to Appomattox (Joseph Stukes)
The Entrepreneurial Artist: John James Audubon in the Lowcountry (Ron Roth)
History
Y'all Come Back Now, Y'heah? (Bill Brockington)
Ben Franklin and the Constitution (Ed Beardsley)
Teddy Roosevelt: Life and Times (Ed Beardsley)
FDR and the New Deal (Ed Beardsley)
FDR and the WWII Homefront (Ed Beardsley)
FDR Discusses D-Day (Ed Beardsley)
South Carolina: A Crock-pot Culture (Bill Brockington)
Paths, Docks, Rivers, Railroads and Superhighways (Bill Brockington)
Are they Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish? (Bill Brockington)
Stories Untold: Slave Life in South Carolina (Lesley Drucker)
Struck by Lightning: Ben Franklin's Rod to the Omnipotence of God (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
Religion and World Affairs: India, Israel, Ireland (Hal French)
One Nation Within the United States: The Cherokees Yesterday and Today (Will Goins)
Freedom to Worship: Native American Perspectives (Will Goins)
Understanding Native American Identity (Will Goins)
The Road to Sovereignty: U.S.-Indian Relations Yesterday & Today (Will Goins)
American Musical Theater: Portrait of a Nation (Will Goins)
American Indians as Slaves in Colonial South Carolina (Will Goins)
The Seven Organized Tribal Groups of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Cherokee Indians of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Lumbee Indians of the Cheraw Nation (Will Goins)
A Journey Through Time: Sequoyah (Will Goins)
African Americans in the Civil War (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
The History of Liberal Arts Education (Margaret Oakes)
The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I: the Humility of Power (Margaret Oakes)
The Genius of the American Constitution (Joseph Stukes)
From Hot War to Cold War, 1945-1950 (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of General Francis Marion (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of John C. Calhoun (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of James F. Byrnes (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Sam Houston (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Theodore Roosevelt (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of Adolf Hitler (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of General Douglas MacArthur (Joseph Stukes)
Carolina Women: Portraits of Strength and Courage (Carolyn Taylor)
Why Garden? (Gail Wagner)
Confitachequi: A Chiefdom (Gail Wagner)
Prehistoric Effects on the Landscape (Gail Wagner)
West Side Story (Gail Wagner)
Use of Plants by American Indians (Gail Wagner)
Indian Gardens (Gail Wagner)
Women and Gardening in Prehistory (Gail Wagner)
It’s Family History: No More Museums! (B.J. Welborn)
Stories From Our Mountain Heritage (John Williams)
Tales From the Mill Villages (John Williams)
Understanding the Crisis in Iraq and Iran (John Williams)
How To Collect Your Community Stories (John Williams)
From Barbeque to Grits: The REAL Native Cuisine of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Frustration of High Hopes: Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the American Rejection of the League of Nations (Ed Beardsley)
An Afternoon with Abraham Lincoln (Gerald Pitts)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 (Caroline McIntyre)
Mary Draper Ingles, Survivor of the Wilderness, 1755 (Caroline McIntyre)
The Seeds of the Final Solution (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Classroom Civil War Museum (Gerald Pitts)
The Holocaust Through Film (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
The Holocaust - In the Beginning (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
Irene Nemirovsky - A One Woman Play (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
What's Happening to Political Cartooning? (Kate Salley Palmer)
Political Cartoons - Past, Present, and Future (Kate Salley Palmer)
Jack Tales from the Richard Chase Collection (John Williams)
Historical Impersonation of Henry Laurens (Joseph Stukes)
Thomas Jefferson Buys Louisiana (Joseph Stukes)
The Pleasures of the Personal Essay (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
Teddy Roosevelt: Life and Times (Ed Beardsley)
Slave Cabins of South Carolina (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
South Carolina Goes to War (Joseph Stukes)
The Civil War: An Irrepressable Conflict (Joseph Stukes)
U.S. Grant Goes to Appomattox (Joseph Stukes)
Gray Ghosts: A Civil War Story (B.J. Welborn)
Service, Honor, Heritage, Pride? The Ethics of Native American Indians that Participated in the Civil War (Will Goins)
An UNTOLD Story of Native American Contributions to America's Roots Music (Will Goins)
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the African American Quest for Freedom (Ron Roth)
Desperate Hours: Understanding the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg through the Sculpture of its Battlefield Monuments (Ron Roth)
The Entrepreneurial Artist: John James Audubon in the Lowcountry (Ron Roth)
Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano Music During the Civil War Era (David Thompson)
General Stephen D. Lee Remembers (Philip Cheney)
Songs of the War Between the States (Philip Cheney)
Private J. Miles Lee from Spartanburg (Philip Cheney)
Literature and Linguistics
The Life and Times of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Karen DeVos)
The Pleasures of Light Verse: Jabberwocky to Burma Shave (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
The Pleasures of Language: Malapropisms to Rhyming Slang (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
African American Women, Literature, and Spirituality (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Women and Spiritual Autobiography (Stephanie Mitchem)
Flying Cars, Floo Powder, and Flaming Torches: The Hi-Tech, Low-Tech World of Harry Potter (Margaret Oakes)
A Comfortable Murder: British Detective Fiction of the Golden Age (Margaret Oakes)
Literature and Medicine (Stuart Sprague)
Taking a Twain Ride, Pursuing Peripatetic Poe, Hunting Hemingway Hideaways: Adventures of a Traveling Bibliophile (B.J. Welborn)
Booking it With Kids Across America (B.J. Welborn)
So You Want to Write a Travel Book? Notes from the Field (B.J. Welborn)
Legends and Ghost Stories from the South (John Williams)
Jack Tales from the Richard Chase Collection (John Williams)
The Pleasures of the Personal Essay (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
Gray Ghosts: A Civil War Story (B.J. Welborn)
South Carolina History and Culture
Y'all Come Back Now, Y'heah? (Bill Brockington)
South Carolina: A Crock-pot Culture (Bill Brockington)
Paths, Docks, Rivers, Railroads and Superhighways (Bill Brockington)
Are they Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish? (Bill Brockington)
The Pleasures of Language: Malapropisms to Rhyming Slang (Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger)
American Indians as Slaves in Colonial South Carolina (Will Goins)
The Seven Organized Tribal Groups of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Cherokee Indians of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Historical Impersonation of General Francis Marion (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of John C. Calhoun (Joseph Stukes)
Historical Impersonation of James F. Byrnes (Joseph Stukes)
Carolina Women: Portraits of Strength and Courage (Carolyn Taylor)
Why Garden? (Gail Wagner)
Confitachequi: A Chiefdom (Gail Wagner)
Stories From Our Mountain Heritage (John Williams)
Tales From the Mill Villages (John Williams)
Legends and Ghost Stories from the South (John Williams)
From Barbeque to Grits: The REAL Native Cuisine of South Carolina (Will Goins)
South Carolina: Ain't We Got Food! (Aïda Rogers)
Can Nature Knowledge Save the World? (Gail Wagner)
Historical Impersonation of Henry Laurens (Joseph Stukes)
Slave Cabins of South Carolina (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
South Carolina Goes to War (Joseph Stukes)
Gray Ghosts: A Civil War Story (B.J. Welborn)
An UNTOLD Story of Native American Contributions to America's Roots Music (Will Goins)
The Entrepreneurial Artist: John James Audubon in the Lowcountry (Ron Roth)
Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano Music During the Civil War Era (David Thompson)
General Stephen D. Lee Remembers (Philip Cheney)
Ballads, Songs, and Stories of the Southern Appalachians (Philip Cheney)
Private J. Miles Lee from Spartanburg (Philip Cheney)
Womens Studies
The Life and Times of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Karen DeVos)
African American Women, Literature, and Spirituality (Stephanie Mitchem)
African American Women and Spiritual Autobiography (Stephanie Mitchem)
The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I: the Humility of Power (Margaret Oakes)
Carolina Women: Portraits of Strength and Courage (Carolyn Taylor)
Women and Gardening in Prehistory (Gail Wagner)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 (Caroline McIntyre)
Mary Draper Ingles, Survivor of the Wilderness, 1755 (Caroline McIntyre)
Irene Nemirovsky - A One Woman Play (Lucy Beam Hoffman)
Other
Why I've Been Involved in the Humanities for 25 Years (Randy Akers)
The Neglected Inheritance of American 'Lonesomeness' (Kevin Lewis)
Food History and Culture
Use of Plants by American Indians (Gail Wagner)
Indian Gardens (Gail Wagner)
Women and Gardening in Prehistory (Gail Wagner)
From Barbeque to Grits: The REAL Native Cuisine of South Carolina (Will Goins)
Native Foods, Plants, and Native Myths (Will Goins)
Native Foods Used in Healing (Will Goins)
Cooking with a REAL Indian Chef or Chief (Will Goins)
South Carolina: Ain't We Got Food! (Aïda Rogers)
Civil War
African Americans in the Civil War (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Joseph McGill, Jr.)
An Afternoon with Abraham Lincoln (Gerald Pitts)
The Classroom Civil War Museum (Gerald Pitts)
South Carolina Goes to War (Joseph Stukes)
The Civil War: An Irrepressable Conflict (Joseph Stukes)
U.S. Grant Goes to Appomattox (Joseph Stukes)
Gray Ghosts: A Civil War Story (B.J. Welborn)
Service, Honor, Heritage, Pride? The Ethics of Native American Indians that Participated in the Civil War (Will Goins)
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the African American Quest for Freedom (Ron Roth)
Desperate Hours: Understanding the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg through the Sculpture of its Battlefield Monuments (Ron Roth)
Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano Music During the Civil War Era (David Thompson)
General Stephen D. Lee Remembers (Philip Cheney)
Songs of the War Between the States (Philip Cheney)
Private J. Miles Lee from Spartanburg (Philip Cheney)
American Roots Music
An UNTOLD Story of Native American Contributions to America's Roots Music (Will Goins)
Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano Music During the Civil War Era (David Thompson)
Songs of the War Between the States (Philip Cheney)
Ballads, Songs, and Stories of the Southern Appalachians (Philip Cheney)