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In 1966, Will, a senior at the Carolina Military Institute, finds his views conflicting with those of his conservative, gung-ho classmates.

Mae Lee Barnes saves her money earned while working in a munitions factory, buys farmland, and waits for her husband to return from WWII.

Nancy Mace chronicles the experiences she had as one of the first woman allowed to attend The Citadel and discusses how the male students reacted to her presence.

Relates the sequence of events that led to the shelling of South Carolina's Fort Sumter by Confederate troops in 1861, marking the start of the Civil War.

In the early 1900s, before child labor is outlawed, Tommy and Rhona are forced to work in the cotton mills and steal food in order to help support their families.

Marietta Cook, having deliberately isolated herself from the traditional women of her birthplace in the Gullah-speaking Low Country of South Carolina, becomes even more distanced after the birth of her twin sons, making them the focus of her life until their prowess on the football field allows her to see to herself.

A firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom for slaves from South Carolina.

Fifteen-year-old Huger Dillard from the Lowcountry of South Carolina gets caught up in several mysteries when he and his blind uncle discover a headless corpse at the Hungry Neck Hunt Club.

Charles Ball describes his life as a slave and tells of his escape and life as a free man. Illustrated with period artwork and photography.

The story of the African American people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida who have preserved the Gullah language and culture.